Monday, July 14, 2008

Top Ten Chicago Sports Mustaches

A couple years back I grew out a beard for "Manuary" and it happened to be the about the same time of the Super Bowl and it happened to be the same Super Bowl that my Chicago Bears were in. This meant one thing for me, a Ditka mustache. Ever since then I have had a love for the upper lip fuzz. These are the top Chicago mustaches.

10. Cliff Johnson

http://www.joesportsfan.com/jsfpics/cards/CliffJohnson.jpg

He might have only been a Cub for one year, but his homeless looking fu manchu gave Johnson an unmistakable edge.

9. Fred McGriff

http://sportsmed.starwave.com/i/magazine/new/emanski_mcgriff.jpg

I just wanted to put this picture of him on here.

8. Ryne Sandberg

http://www.unlikelymoose.com/images/more/sandberg/sandberg_moustache_640_06.jpg

Seeing this Ricky O'Donnell-esque rat-stache gave me the idea for this post.

7. Fred Manrique and Kelly Paris

These two played a combined 89 games for the ChiSox, but their porn-staches made them a duo that Chicago is grateful for.

6. Rod Beck
http://mlb.mlb.com/images/2007/06/24/Lzj4ph2T.jpg
http://mlb.mlb.com/images/2007/06/24/Lzj4ph2T.jpg

Baseball player or truck driver? Both?

5. Rafael Palmeiro
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/news/2003/08/10/rangers_palmeiro_ap/t1_palmeiro_all.jpg

Before the PED's and before the penis pills, Palmeiro rocked this stellar 'stache for the Cubs.

4. Jose Valentin

http://www.mlb.com/images/2004/06/23/oCOFmVGk.jpg

White Sox fans seemed to love this guy despite his career .321 OBP. It must have been his sick lip fur.

3. Goose Gossage

http://img299.echo.cx/img299/7598/ggossage0ds.jpg

One of the greatest fu manch's in the history of sports.

2. William "The Refrigerator" Perry
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/img/v3/02-02-2005.ns_02fridge.GN81HR7VM.1.jpg

The "Fridge" takes the mustachioed happy-go-lucky fat-man archetype to a whole new level.

1. Mike Ditka

http://soundbiteblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/ditka.jpg

Was there ever a doubt?

I also wrote a nice little story on the Cubs signing Andrew Cashner over at the Cubs blog and I gave TTCS contributor Dubs a place to post his rant on Brett Favre and the New York Yankees.

5 comments:

Freddy in the Chi said...

So, you playing the duel identities card or what Dubs, er, Martin?

Meredith Jones said...

http://blogs.suntimes.com/wolves/2008/05/game_7_moustache_rally.html#more

I still don't get why this wouldn't make your list zdubs... that's a pretty impressive 'stache

Anonymous said...

What .......No .....Billy Buckner

Ya Messed Up .............

Cuno Barragan

Anonymous said...

Where is Wannstedt on this list?? That man had one fine stache. Jordan? Phil Jackson? Just food for thought.

Zach Martin said...

Good points on all, except...Putting Wannstedt on any list that isn't Top Ten Worst Chicago Coaches (next week?) is pretty much blasphemy (i don't know how to spell simple words without WORD).