There’s bad, there’s ugly, there’s terribly ugly…



And then there’s what happened to Alex Hall and Chase Ortiz, among others, sometime before Thursday’s practice.



About 10 of the Browns’ rookies involuntarily got haircuts so bad, they refused to take their helmets off. Ortiz went the Ricky Williams route for his post-practice interview and refused multiple requests to take his helmet off and show off the damage.



Just how bad was this phase of the veterans’ annual end-of-camp hazing?



So bad Ortiz said he doesn’t want any of his friends or family to see it. So bad we couldn’t get pictures, because even though they were done as a joke, the victims/recipients found it tough to joke about them.



“Awful,” Hall said.



The rooks walked right into it, too. Literally. The veterans set a trap disguised as a linebacker’s meeting, then got “artistic” with their clippers.



To paint a picture of what Hall’s looks like, click this -- http://www.salonsofamerica.com/salonarea/photos/res_1361189004061.jpg -- and then imagine the top of the head being shaved completely bald, too.



Ortiz’s looks a little like this – http://www.uspcreative.com/news_uploads/haircut.jpg --minus the glasses and lipstick, of course.



Though he sounded as if he’d rather wear lipstick.



Brian Schaefering, who was already sporting a buzz cut, got one side of his shaved totally bald. The other side was untouched. The perpetrators left James Lee with a little on top and a little tail near his neck, like it was 1989 all over again. Lance Leggett’s looks like a madman with a hedge trimmer started going crazy, then got bored and found something else to do.



Even Martin Rucker, who’s just trying to mind his own business and rehab from arthroscopic knee surgery, got trimmed up. In about 19 different places. I passed him in the hallway today and stared like I was staring at a terrible train wreck. He just gave me an apologetic wave.



Kamerion Wimbley, who’s normally one of the quietest guys on the team, couldn’t contain his excitement as he prodded Ortiz to take off his helmet and pose for a picture. Plenty of pictures will likely be taken at tonight’s “Rookie Show,” marking the end of camp.



After that, the rookie are free to go totally bald. Most of them will without hesitation.



I’ve been there, done that on the terrible haircut front. When I was in seventh grade and wore number 11 for my school basketball team, I shaved my head bald except for two strands – representing the number 11 – on top.



It grew back, and for a long time I thought that memory was over. But then two or three years ago, a friend presented me with what he called a “special Christmas gift.”



It was a picture of me in that haircut. He’d had it enlarged and printed onto a pillowcase.



“To sleep on it, remember it fondly,” he said.



And I sat there wishing I could crawl into a football helmet and hide.

That's good stuff, I don't care who ya are . In high school there was this freshman who constantly ran him mouth, to players, coaches, anyone who would listen. One day he said something that made the coaches get upset. We ran the entire practice, no hitting, no drills, no practice, just running sprints for 3 hours.

Needless to say we got some duck tape out of the trainers room, duck taped him down to the locker room bench. I won't go into details, but there may have been some soap in his eyes, and an entire roster giving nasty pink bellies, amongst other things from the likes of the guy who hits himself in the head with his helmet for fun. It goes without saying he never opened his mouth to the coaches again without a "sir" at the end of it.

Good times...ahh how it is missed.