Business in the front, party in the back! In this photo, Brendan Witt sports both a shiner and some serious mulletude — both traditional identifiers of one who plays hockey for a living.
The flowing locks of the mullet are perhaps the most immediately identifiable aspect of the hockey player stereotype. ESPN has its Second Annual Melrose Mullet Madness Gallery online, including links to previous mullet galleries — which, of course, include the amazing poodle-ish photos of Jaromir Jagr in his prime. Ryan Smyth, Mike Ricci (obviously), and even Paul McCartney are also featured.
We at OFB revel in the hockey-ness of this coiffure. We don’t choose to sport mullets ourselves, but were we professional hockey players I’m sure a notable portion of our inflated salaries would go toward the maintenance of our hockey bouffants.
The mullet is perhaps second only to the playoff beard in the NHL’s grand history of sartorial splendor. In this time of playoff hockey — which, in some cases, make veterans of playoff rookies (c.f. Roberto Luongo’s 2.3 games played Wednesday night) — OFB salutes the MacGyver-esque hair of the hockey player.
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4 Comments
Awesome.
Photos of Backstrom seen earlier this year portend more mullet greatness for next season.
From DJ Gallo’s chat on ESPN, April 19:
josh (austin, tx): Do you think hockey would benefit by bringing back the mullet?
DJ Gallo: (1:08 PM ET)
Everything would benefit by bringing back the mullet. Don’t tell me that if we got Bush and all the Middle East leaders in a room wearing mullets, all of the troubles over there wouldn’t be wrapped up in an hours. They’d be all business up top, but the party in the back would keep everything light and civil.
Hey, Melrose says there’s no fake hair in the NHL. Challenge to readers: Identify fake hair, i.e., toupees or plugs or whatever, in coaching staffs behind the bench. There just has to be some fake hair in the NHL someplace, in addition to Donald Brashear’s mullet-du-jour.
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