Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Wild About Hairy

This has to be my most exciting (non) mention to date as The New York Times weighs in on the great Jake Plummer facial hair debate. Did I mention that this story was a Page 1 reefer?(!)

The first sign of stubble -- if not trouble -- came without notice on an unremarkable day months ago, when neither Jake Plummer nor Ben Roethlisberger shaved.

Countless days and whiskers later, it has come to this: a championship game featuring quarterbacks whose mugs look more at home in a saloon than a salon, a face-off of facial hair, where ZZ Top might be logical halftime entertainment.

The faces of the quarterbacks have drawn critiques from mainstream newspaper columns to online Web logs, including those geared toward football fans, gay men and teenage girls. At beardcommunity.com, a bulletin-board discussion titled "The Bearded Plummer" began this week.


I love that they mention BeardCommunity.com by name but they can't give the (212) a holla ...

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