I am more than a little depressed as I write this post. The Vikings have just been done in by the lowly Philadelphia Eagles, a team that made it into the playoffs based on a series of events so unlikely that it relied heavily on the Oakland Raiders winning a football game...against an NFL team! Nevertheless, even if the Vikings do not march on, Beardapalooza surely does.I thought that since Week 6 of Beardapalooza coincides with the opening weekend of the NFL playoffs, it would be more than fitting to discuss the playoff beard. The playoff beard is by most accounts an invention of the National Hockey League (NHL). The tradition is simple, as a team enters the playoffs for Lord Stanley's cup, players on the participating team forgo shaving. The deeper the teams get into the playoffs, the more ridiculous/awesome the beards get. Recently, this tradition has found its way into other professional sports leagues - the NBA and NFL most notably. Variations on the playoff beard have even surfaced in such semi-sports as Tennis and NASCAR.
There have even been rumors that Barack Obama was going to grow a Recession Beard - not shaving until the economy was healthy and capitalism once again rules the world. OK, that isn't true, but it would be awesome. I think it would put his approval rating somewhere in the high 90s...or it might bolster rumors that he is a secret Muslim. Either way, I think it is important that Obama come out as pro-beard early in his first term. It would really lock down the beard enthusiast demographic for 2012.
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