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Clinton Portis (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

"At the moment it was like, 'Ohhh, I want to do something weird and different,' and that's what I did, I dyed my hair blond. You know, it wasn't an attention seeker."

-- Clinton Portis, telling our colleague Dan Steinberg why he bleached his hair -- and beard -- this summer before returning to his dark roots for training camp. And don't get any ideas about the running back: "From what I hear, now I'm gay? I don't think there's a woman in the United States of America that would say I'm gay."