CINCINNATI — Football coaches are creatures of habit, and every Friday Marvin Lewis gets a haircut. He doesn’t have much hair left so people don’t believe him when he says he gets it cut weekly. This week, though, he went nine days between cuts—a product of the start of training camp—and his hair got a little unruly.
When Lewis was hired to be the Bengals’ head coach in 2003, he came to Cincinnati with solid-black hair and a receding but defined hairline. Today there’s more gray than black, and the hairline is a suggestion. Five years ago his hairdresser hooked him up with some shampoo, conditioner and “another product that you can put on after that” that has slowed the hair-loss process down.