>>>>After touring southern Wisconsin yesterday, returning my daughters to school, I caught up on three NFL football games on the recorder and noted a disturbing trend. Three of the league's most recognizable quarterbacks -- Aaron Rodgers, Eli Manning, and Jay Cutler -- are now wearing mustaches. Not that they are especially hirsute mustaches but given the popularity of the NFL it's inevitable that the look will trickle down. The male look of the 1970s may be coming back.
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>>>>You've been warned.
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>>>Does this mean that we can expect quarterbacks to begin wearing panty hose like Joe Nameth did? :)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-H54s6Sbos>>
>>Joe was my favorite quarterback when I was a kid. He could get away with anything. It is still one of my favorite mysteries of sports that the wild child from Pennsylvania and the Alabama Bear collaborated so famously.
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>Being a 49er fan, Y.A. Tittle and Joe Montana are my two favorite quarterbacks.
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>Interviews with Joe Nameth were always interesting.
Y.A. Tittle was my father's favorite quarterback. My dad was inexplicably a Giants fan in New England and old Yelberton Abraham was their QB when I was young. There was a famous photo of him dazed on his knees after being sacked, his helmet off, blood running down from his bald head.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/57166500@N04/5425644414/Note the empty seats. The NFL was quite a different game back then. Baseball was still America's pastime.
Now that I am riffing about sports, and in service of laughter as the best medicine, here is a great column by the peerless Bill Simmons. He has been all over NHL commissioner Gary Bettman lately, seldom if ever better than this. And he's got a point. (Don't skip over the asides in his NFL picks).
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8639525/just-go-away-gary
