Chances are that you’ve either chucked out the razor and/or got an inbox clogged with sponsorship requests.
As a Movember tribute, let’s highlight some notable growths and maybe put together some teams and lists.
No Arantxa Sanchez gags please!
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Chances are that you’ve either chucked out the razor and/or got an inbox clogged with sponsorship requests.
As a Movember tribute, let’s highlight some notable growths and maybe put together some teams and lists.
No Arantxa Sanchez gags please!
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Australian captain at the turn of the 20th century, Joe Darling, had a thick, bushy mo.
But of course, for dramatic effect, nothing beat the “Demon” Spofforth’s moustache. He twirled it between deliveries (so we are led to believe by batsmen of the era).
Not to forget the good Doctor W.G. Grace’s full facial complement.
Crio – I nominate Rollie Fingers
17 year career, 314 “saves”, Winner of the American League Cy Young & MVP for the Brewers in the strike shortened 1981 season, member of Oaklands 3 in a row WS Champs (72-74), elected to the HoF in 1992 and the owner of the grandest “handlebar” moustache to have graced world sport in living memory
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MCR
Two 70’s mo icons: DK Lillee & Newk.
Was Newk’s mo one of the first sporting brands?
Andrew McQualter early in his career is the first one that springs to my mind…
5: The pornstar look. Can’t imagine him with it these days.
Mathew Stokes. Pre drugs bust.
Amazed that no one has mentioned Boonie or Merv yet.
Liverpool has been a sure haven for the mo: Graeme Souness, Ian Rush.
And don’t forget Mark Spitz (do mo’s cause added water resistance?).
5: I was referring to Adam’s comment, just to clarify..
I’m sure Travis Johnstone had a moustache underneath all of the other growth.
Bernie Quinlan
A bit obvious, but Leigh Matthews. He shaved it off this year, on the Bounce (Yes, I actually watched it)
I thought it was for the Good Friday Appeal.
Judging from news highlights tonight, we can add Kevin Pietersen to this list.
Herr Schickelgruber had an interesting mo when he did the big dummy spit when the yanks won the mens relay in the 36 Olympic Games.
– Maxy Walker
– W.G.Grace
– Joffa Cunningham
– Tom Selleck …he went to college on a basketball scholarship, and who could forget his perfomance in the Fred Schepisi directed “Mr.Baseball” in the early ’90s. Obviously not I.
Ronald Dale Barassi
Come on guys…you can do better than this.
-A full team from the backline
-a full Test (or state) side
-best from each AFL club
Victoria’s side must have Richie robinson behind the stumps, Higgsy bowling full tosses, Maxy and Mad Dog Callen opening the attack and Jeff “Groucho” Moss looking for an MCG pudding.
North Melbourne: Mick Nolan
Lots of great old North calls josh, including the much loved “Galloping Gasometer”. What about Barry “Lurch” Goodingham?
Carlton- Percy Jones, late period Jezza, WOW Jones, Rod Ashman (for the beard brigade), Val Perovic.
To continue the North theme- Blighty, Ross Henshaw, David Dench
Crio, an all time facial hair XI
Graham Gooch
David Boon
WG Grace
KS Ranjitsinjhi
Clive Lloyd (c)
Sir Ian Botham
Kapil Dev
Sir Richard Hadlee
Jack Russell (wk)
Dennis Lillee
Bishen Bedi
(12th) Salim Malik (he can lay the bets)
Florence Griffith-Joyner?
B: John Gastev, Bruce Doull, Austin McCrabb
HB: Andrew Demetriou, Ross Henshaw, Wayne Harmes
C: Rod Ashman, Simon Atkins, Carl Steinfort
HF: Malcolm Blight, Roger Merrett, Mark Ricciuto
F: Dale Weightman, Bernie Quinlan, Brian Taylor
R: Simon Madden, Michael Tuck, Leigh Matthews
INT: Ben Hudson, Garry McIntosh, Jim Jess, Jason Akermanis
COACH: Tony Jewell
And to take on Butler’s XI….
Saeed Anwar
Hashim Amla
Mohammad Azharuddin
Viv Richards
Greg Chappell
Shahid Afridi
Jeff Dujon
Malcolm Marshall
Jason Gillespie
Merv Hughes
Harbhajan Singh
12th: Manoj Prabhakar
Great work Mick.
I think I’d have Dipper ahead of Carl Steinfort on the wing though …I was school-mates with Carl, I think he’d agree with me!
And Rod “the Tilt” Carter would be a handy FB if Doull went down…
DD
And here’s an, ahem, “Interesting” Hair team:
FB: Gary Ayres, Bruce Doull, Nathan Carroll
HB: Danny Southern, Jim Jess, Wayne Wiedemann
C: Jason Akermanis (c), John Platten, Greg Anderson
HF: Tony Antrobus, Dermott Brereton, Stephen Kernahan
FF: Stephen Milne, Warwick Capper, Allen Jakovich
Ruck: Percy Jones, Cameron Ling, Kevin Bartlett
INT: Ben Nason, Nick Naitanui, Brendan Fevola (dreadlocks era), Dale Thomas
Coach: Tony Jewell
Ivan Milat – apparently he was pretty good at orienteering. (He certainly knew his way around the Belanglo State Forest.)
Here are some horrible soccer haircuts http://www.soccersucks.net/soccer_hair.html
Mick #24
That would be one hell of a game. :)
…and let’s not forget the “Macka” look-a-like in the 1800s cricket poster on the wall of The Flying Duck…
I’m going to field pure Bolshevik
B Rykov, Bronstein (vc), Nogin
HB Sverdlov, Joffe, Dzerzhinsky
C Illych (c), Bukharin, Zinoviev
HF Tomsky, Lunacharsky, Preobrazhensky
F Krestinsky, Ryazanov, Shliapnakov
Foll Kamanev, Kalinin, Molotov
Int Podvoisky, Antonov-Ovseyenko, Smilga, Krasin
Eme: Plekhanov, Martov, Gorky
#30…I think that was keeper Billy Murdoch.
#31 I notice that Dzhugashvili did not make the team despite his splendid moustache!
#33 he was expelled for tampering
International Marxists
B Lukacs, Roy, Mehring
HB Dazhao, Guevara, Blanqui
C Marx (c), Kautsky, Engels
HF Chi Min, Lumumba, Hilferding
F Lafarge, Connolly, Habermas
Foll Liebknecht, Bauer, Castro,
Int Pannekoek, Radek, Lassalle, Zizek
Eme Gramsci (would have been a shoe in if he’d grown a bloody mo), Althusser(see Gramsci), Adorno (see Althusser)
watching the golf…so must mention “The Walrus”, Craig Stadler.
Non sport related, but the title “Notable Growths” made me think of a conversation from Blackadder, when Blackadder was helping Baldrick fill out a form for becoming an MP
Blackadder: “Any distinguishing features?”
Baldrick: “I’ve got this large growth in the middle of my face…”
Blackadder: “That’s your nose, Baldrick”
A combined team of Dingoes and Falcons from the weekend. I reckon we had enough to form a pretty useful team…
I can’t let this thread go without nominating the great Jeff Moss.
Many mentioned here had “sometimes mos” – some even beards – but I love the ones you could not imagine sans caterpillar. Greg Chappell is not one of them. Boony is. Merv is. So too Roo Yardley, Stumpy Laird, Peter “Who?” Taylor. Hookesy seems somehow to fit both scenarios. Groucho Moss, though, is an “A”-lister.
#31 Assuming that the Bolsheviks team requires facial hair, drop Zinoviev (rare clean-shaver) from the left wing position and replace with Stalin (Dzhugashvilli at #33). Depending upon his assessment of the situation, he can move to the centre or right to wreak maximum damage on opponents (or team-mates).
#40 Had to search pretty hard to find a hairy liped Zinoviev, but had to put him in the side
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Ahh, what happened. I can’t see an edit function.
We seem to have moved to politics and beards!?!
try this side..
‘There’s Archimedes, and I think he’s had an idea! “Eureka!” Archimedes, out to Socrates. Socrates back to Archimedes. Archimedes out to Heraclitus who beats Hegel. Heraclitus a little flick. Here he comes, on the far post. Socrates is there! Socrates heads it in! Socrates has scored! The Greeks are going mad!The Greeks are going mad! Socrates scores! But a beautiful cross from Archimedes. The Germans are disputing it! Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics. Kant, via the categorical imperative, is holding that ontologic exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming that it was offside.’ International Philosophy Match, Germany v Greece, Olympic Stadium Munich MontyPython
Whoops…used Tommy’s contact.
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