Somebody Stop This
I don’t get the mohawk thing. Chalk it up to a traumatic experience I had in middle school: Back when my “barber” was my Dad and the “barbershop” was a stool sitting in the bathroom at our apartment, one time I went outside the box of my usual baldie look and asked for a fade. Dad ended up giving me a cut that had everyone calling me “Mr. T” for the next two weeks. Soon after that, I started cutting my own hair.
Even in their heyday I wasn’t big into mohawks, so as they’ve made a comeback over the last year or so — you can’t watch an NBA, college or high school game now without seeing at least one dude rocking a ‘hawk — I’m feeling like an old man wrinkling my nose at a bunch of kids I don’t understand. Another ancient male fashion statement that never caught on with me is the mustache. Luckily that one hasn’t resurfaced, but now my Indiana Pacers are trying to make it happen. From Mike Wells’ Indianapolis Star Pacers blog:
Several players may have a different look by the time the Pacers play Houston on Friday.
Mike Dunleavy was able to convince most of his teammates to grow mustaches. The players involved have until practice Thursday to have their mustaches or to have their beards shaved. I’m not sure what the consequence is for those who don’t fulfill their end of the deal.
“I’ve never had just a mustache before,” said Troy Murphy, who’s one of the players that has to shave off the rest of his facial hair before Thursday. “I may use some Maybelline and color it in so that it can be nice and dark.”
(Jeff) Foster’s mustache has already grown in. All he needs to do is grow his hair out, put on a skin-tight t-shirt and some tight blue jeans to look like he’s back in the 70’s. Foster, too, said he’s never had a mustache before.
Is there one NBA player you can think of who would look better with a mustache?
Source: Indianapolis Star
January 21st, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Nick says:
Sam Cassell, it couldn’t hurt his looks!
January 21st, 2009 at 1:55 pm
mules says:
Diana Taurasi
January 21st, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Chaos says:
LMAO…Nobody…while they at it, why dont they grown some ‘fros or shags, wear headbands and bring back the ABA look
January 21st, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Russ says:
Kobes Fro was cool
January 21st, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Brown says:
Doesn’t CP rock the ’stache?
Only way I’d do it is if there’s money on the line. Mustaches just don’t look good on white guys, unless they’re going for that old school porn star look.
January 21st, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Yog friend of Jurg says:
Yog says:
This man look like Shawn Bradley but with good mustache…
http://blog.oregonlive.com/qpdx/alley_mustache.jpg
January 21st, 2009 at 2:24 pm
matthew says:
I don’t know, I thought Oden’s mohawk was pretty good:
http://www.gregodenclub.info/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/greg-oden-mohawk.jpg
January 21st, 2009 at 2:26 pm
fiyaman says:
Rodman
January 21st, 2009 at 2:34 pm
jones says:
ROFLCOPTER!!!!!!
NO ONE!
January 21st, 2009 at 2:40 pm
SparkyJ23 says:
Dirk fo sure
January 21st, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Smitty313 says:
I can tell Austin is a white guy. Because you rarely see a black guy without a mustace.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Sho-Nuff says:
RULE #1: Never let your Dad, an inexperienced barber, give you anything other than the basic cut.
RULE #2: Never allow him to experiment, unless it’s on your brother first.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:22 pm
FlipG says:
I love the hawk, if i wasn’t thinning on top, id rock one for at least a few months.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:22 pm
buffaloballa says:
…all the Dime writers are white…those who can are ballers, those who can’t….write….you ever hear of an NBA baller regularly talking/or breaking any news with Dime Magazine? They get all their news from yahoo, fox sports, sporting news, or simply make up shit as they go along, definitely not ESPN or they would be sued out of existence…..
January 21st, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Austin Burton says:
@Smitty313 — Wrong on that one. Most of us (Black men) do have mustaches, but with beards/goatees attached. Currently I’ve got kind of a DeShawn Stevenson thing going. Just going with the mustache alone ain’t my thing.
January 21st, 2009 at 4:15 pm
ali says:
hey buffaloballa,
the dime writers might not be in the nba, but the dime/bounce family can play some ball. don’t be fooled. you never seen some white boys that can hoop?
and why the hate? dime magazine’s basketball writing is better than any other publication out there.
January 21st, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Austin Burton says:
@buffaloballa — Well, after 46 issues of making things up and not talking to any players, I think we’re doing pretty good. Be sure to pick pick up Dime #46 while you still can, where I definitely did not talk to LaMarcus Aldridge for his feature story.
January 21st, 2009 at 4:37 pm
buffaloballa says:
…i didn’t say dime writers couldn’t interview someone or play basketball, (anyone can do that) i did say a lot of the blogs on Dime are made-up nonsense,like this particular blog on a mowhawk haircuts and Kobe in the NFL and NO ONE in the media uses Dime Magazines blogs or magazine interviews as sources. Meanwhile, I’m still waiting on my Kobe 81 cent subscription to begin….
January 21st, 2009 at 4:50 pm
the scola says:
charlie villanueva needs the stache and the hawk…oh wait.
January 21st, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Guitar Hero says:
Yao with a moustache? Heaven.
January 21st, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Thunder Dan says:
@buffaloballa
it’s a blog…they can say or not say anything they want…and you wouldn’t be on it if what they were saying wasn’t interesting to you…
January 21st, 2009 at 6:34 pm
sp says:
wow scola that’s cold
January 21st, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Hey, Jugs from Timbuktu says:
hey hey big jugs on another section of dime
buffaloballa you must be what my bronx friends call bonehead. dime magazine is right now the best basketball magazine on the planet, even the website is very real very true yes yes
and people with moustache i say mike bibby or brian scalabrine or andrei kirilenko yes yes that would make me har har har
January 21st, 2009 at 7:50 pm
E$ says:
To bad 2k9 won’t let me edit Von Wafer, he looks horrible without it
January 21st, 2009 at 8:07 pm
JCARR says:
Jackie Mooooooooon
January 21st, 2009 at 8:58 pm
young k says:
Here in Australia we call the second-last month of the year Movember, and blokes grow their ’staches and get sponsored to raise millions of dollars for men’s health issues like prostate cancer awareness. It looks like a ’70s porn reunion, but it’s for a good cause. Maybe someone could get the Pacers guys on board? Check http://www.movember.com for more deets
January 21st, 2009 at 10:54 pm
AB_40 says:
the mohawks call it an 80’s reneisance.
yao ming + thick black mustache = comedic brilliance
January 22nd, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Luke says:
adam morrison
January 23rd, 2009 at 10:54 am
Curtis G says:
Hey, Yao actually did the mustache thing about a year ago right before he got hurt last year. everyone made fun of it because it was kinda thin and uneven. it was aroound the same time McGrady first rocked his goatee. We in Houston kinda think they had a bet going that no one else was in on because Yao’s ’stache and Tracy’s goatee appeared and then mysteriously dissapeared around the same time.
January 23rd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Aron says:
I’m a big fan of the mustache. My buddy actually started a website when Adam Morrison was at Gonzaga called http://www.morristache.com that featured the art of the ’stache. I wish it was still around…