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"  Photo: Courtesy Head &amp;amp;amp; Shoulders On Sunday, we will all eat chicken wings, watch a Bruno Mars/Red Hot Chili Peppers show, and tweet about all the clever commercials. Oh, and we&amp;#039;ll also watch a bunch of big guys in helmets play football. Yep, it&amp;#039;s time for the Super Bowl. Many people, men and women alike, tend to idolize football players for the superhuman feats they perform on the field. I have to admit I am not a football fan and don&amp;#039;t understand the game at all. I do, however, understand beauty. So at a recent event for weight loss program Bodykey by Nutrilite, I took the opportunity to ask the three NFL players in attendance some hard-hitting questions about their favorite products. I&amp;#039;m convinced that hair care products are a great equalizer. Related: Guyliner: 6 Men Who Get it Right It turns out that football players know about as much about the specifics of beauty products as I do about blitzing. Read on.  Photo: Getty Images Mark Schlereth, 48, played in the NFL for 12 seasons, six with the Washington Redskins and six with the Denver Broncos. He has three Super Bowl rings. After undergoing 29 surgeries, he retired from football. He&amp;#039;s now a commentator on ESPN and has pretty amazing hair. Related: How Erin Andrews Deals With Crazed Football Players and Preps for the Super Bowl So what kind of products do you use? You have a good head of hair! Thank you! My hair\u2014I&amp;#039;ve just been genetically blessed. My hair is poker straight and when it dries it&amp;#039;s a poofball if I don&amp;#039;t put something in it. After my shower I throw on a wax-based thing. I bounce around from brand to brand. Right now I&amp;#039;ve got some Axe Messy Look. I grew up in Alaska, so I didn&amp;#039;t see the sun for the first 18 years of my life. That&amp;#039;s part of my skin care regimen. The truth of the matter is, and this is embarrassing to say, I rub a bar of soap over the top of my head and my face and that&amp;#039;s all I use. That&amp;#039;s it. I do nothing for my skin. I do nothing for my hair. When you&amp;#039;re on camera do they put makeup on you? Have you picked up any tips? I use makeup to make the other guys who aren&amp;#039;t as handsome as me feel good about themselves. I don&amp;#039;t need it! (laughs) At ESPN and the other places I work they&amp;#039;ll spritz you with\u2026they do a makeup thing...I don&amp;#039;t know what they use. This interview isn&amp;#039;t really going to help me land any marketing deals with products, is it? Maybe Axe will read this on ELLE.com and offer you something.  You know what I get all the time? &amp;quot;If you dye your hair, why don&amp;#039;t you take the time to dye your beard?&amp;quot; I don&amp;#039;t dye my hair, but my beard gets a little grey. But obviously I would dye it if I dyed my hair.  Do you do your own goatee maintenance? Yes. I trim my goatee every three days or so. I have the Gillette whatever-it-is. I don&amp;#039;t know what the hell it is. You go [gestures to face and makes a buzzy sound].   Photo: Getty Images Kirk Cousins, 25, is a quarterback for the Washington Redskins and a relative NFL newbie. He&amp;#039;s been playing professionally for two years. He&amp;#039;s the quintessential squeaky-clean all-American quarterback. So tell me about the grooming products you use. I&amp;#039;m dependent on my fianc\u00E9e for helping me with everything. I still have a long way to improve, but she&amp;#039;s really helped me in the fashion world and with hair care and all that.  Is there any specific product or category of product she&amp;#039;s introduced you to that made you say, &amp;quot;Wow!&amp;quot;? I use a hair gel or hair mousse that she bought and I can&amp;#039;t think of the brand. Is it mousse or gel? Those are very different products.  It&amp;#039;s like a spray that you put in your hand. Mousse. It&amp;#039;s in a silver can. That doesn&amp;#039;t really narrow it down, does it? I&amp;#039;m not a huge product guy. I&amp;#039;m one of your stereotypical guys who doesn&amp;#039;t really take care of himself, but she&amp;#039;s really upped my game.  Do you use anything on your face? Sunscreen? You&amp;#039;re outside a lot.  I use a Nivea face lotion in the morning. In the cold weather my skin gets dry really fast. I can feel it when I step out of the shower. Other than that, nothing too crazy. Just deodorant.  Do you see any really involved routines or fancy products in the locker room? Everyone&amp;#039;s different. You&amp;#039;ve got your guys who care about it a lot and you&amp;#039;ve got those you don&amp;#039;t really care. I think it probably leans more towards guys not caring. Fashion is probably bigger than products. Suits, nice jeans--they really take care of themselves.  \u2028 How has your style changed since your fianc\u00E9e came into the picture? I just think being a professional now in the NFL, there&amp;#039;s no more excuses. In college you could say, &amp;quot;Well, I&amp;#039;m just a poor college student.&amp;quot; I didn&amp;#039;t really look the part. At this level now as an athlete, you want to come across as a professional. If you wear clothes that don&amp;#039;t really fit, you come across as cheap. You just want to be classy. That&amp;#039;s where I think I&amp;#039;ve changed. Trying to have my clothing and appearance match the level of football that I&amp;#039;m playing at.   Photo: WireImage Jamaal Charles, 27, is a running back for the Kansas City Chiefs and has been playing in the NFL for five years. He also used to run track in college. He has striking long hair and is the product junkie of the three. I&amp;#039;d love to hear about your hair care routine. Does it require a lot of maintenance? I go to this lady and she does my hair. She gives me all sorts of things to put in my hair, all natural stuff. I need her with me to tell you what they are! I don&amp;#039;t really look at what she gives me. It&amp;#039;s embarrassing what I have in my bag. I have hair spray and at least three oils. The hair spray makes it shiny because my hair and scalp get dry really fast.  How often do you get it done? If I get it twisted, I get it done every week. I sweat, and putting the helmet on and taking it off all the time\u2014it gets loose. In the off season I get it done in Austin, TX and I have someone else who does my hair in Kansas City.  What about your skin? I use face stuff because I get bumps and break out a lot. I don&amp;#039;t know what brand\u2014I just know what it looks like. I use the stuff my wife uses. This is embarrassing that I don&amp;#039;t know what it is. I just steal hers. What about cologne?  I&amp;#039;m big on Creed, I&amp;#039;ve got at least 8 bottles. I&amp;#039;m a big fragrance person. I also have one from Balmain. I&amp;#039;m big on those two. I wear it after I leave the locker room, not when I play. I don&amp;#039;t even take a shower before I play. I go on the field all musty. I think it helps keep the defenders away from me. (laughs) And I just wash after the game. I don&amp;#039;t even put deodorant on before the game. I&amp;#039;m just going to get dirty and funky so I just take a shower afterwards. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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