Here's Aaron Rodgers on the day he was drafted. (photo from AP)
Look at him--kind of goofy in that "I'm young, I'm wearing a suit too nice for me, and I'm going to be fucking rich" way that any kid should have on his face when he gets drafted into the NFL
No real issues here, you know. Good lookin' kid. And hey, if he wanted to grow his hair out long, and get a mountain man beard, I'd be cool with that. If he wanted to pretend he was in baseball and grow a shitty goatee, I'd mock it, but I'd hardly bother to call public attention to it.
But here he is from tonight's game (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images), with the kind of facial hair only a city councilman from Appleton could enjoy unironically. Some of you hip with-it kids may think that facial hair is somehow Aaron's way of announcing to the world that he is gay. I would agree with you if he were playing in New York or San Francisco, back in the early 90's. But he's playing in Green Bay in 2007. That moustache signifies, "I too would like to dress in camo print and hang out in deer blinds more often. I too don't care for all that rap music, and that Toby Keith is an underrated political singer. Truck commercials give me an erection. I also laugh at the Milwaukee's Best Light advertisements because they are so true. In short, I too think growing facial hair like this connotes super manly toughness."That kind of shit may work for AJ Hawk, Dan Fouts, or the Village People, but not for Aaron Rodgers. Rodgers, don't let Green Bay infect your brain, man!
Update: Apparently Rodgers justs likes to grow a funny moustache once a year. He did the exact same thing last year, and explained it thusly: "a tribute to all the great people in history that had mustaches -- guys like Tom Selleck and Chuck Norris and Jesus and Ron Burgundy." So Rodgers isn't try to fit in at Green Bay--he's actively mocking the people who love their moustache. Much cooler.
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Isn't that a photo of Dan Majkowski?
And correct me if I'm wrong, but it sure looks like he's got some hair curling underneath the back of his helmet.
Could he be sporting a mullet?
He's definitely got a little curl under the helmet. I don't know whether it is a mullet. Though that would play well in Green Bay. That thick Fu-Manchu distracted me while I was watching the game, and that was the best photo I could find post game. Disturbing, regardless.
unless we think Aaron Rodgers is a clever tweaker of social norms, ala Garwood.
It's alright, but he's no Jake Plummer.
He looks eeirely similar to Sal Fasano
Andrew - How can you spell "Majkowski" correctly and screw up "Don?"
Majkowski's stache was much blonder but it is easy to forget that detail while thinking about that beautiful head of hair.
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I can't tell if I'd like him better if his hair was ironically detached condescension or authentic cheese. I'm guessing even he can't tell anymore which it is.
I completely disagree on almost every front.
A) in this age of hair product and supreme cheesiness, it's refreshing to see a guy cut loose a little.
B) Rap music fucking blows.
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