(Picture courtesy of Chicagoblackhawks.com)
Patrick Kane did and he planned accordingly. As the season came to a close in the early months of 2010, most Blackhawk fans were delighted to see the extra exposure being given to their team. Kane, Toews and their teammates made guest appearances on Sportscenter and the Tonight Show. They were the center of constant praise by Barry Melrose and espn.com. They were the drivers of one of the biggest band wagon’s hockey has seen in a long time. Yet with all of these appearances, one question continuously popped up in the minds of the Blackhawk faithful, “Why won’t Patrick Kane cut his hair?”
Well the playoffs have arrived and now we understand his motivation to sport that sloppy, greasy head of hair: to introduce the world to the playoff mullet.
A lovely piece that proves that guys like Uncle Jesse of Full House fame, Jared Allen of the Minnesota Vikings, KanYe West and his “fro mullet”, and Billy Ray Cyrus in fact knew what they were doing. If you take a look through these men's history you will find that every one of these men had mullet’s at pivotal points in their careers.
KanYe grew the mullet before he was a raging, drunken asshole. Uncle Jesse (aka John Stamos) had the mullet when Full House pushed past family fun to one of the best sitcoms of all time. Billy Ray, who was king of the “mullet heads” dropped one of the best one hit wonders of all time in “Achey Breaky Heart” and then delivered the world Miley Cyrus (party in the USA Billy Ray, Party in the freaking U, S of A!).
That’s some serious business (that is if you are looking at them from the front).
The mullet has proven to be a road to glory that not many sane members of the world choose to take. But you can’t fool Patrick Kane, who is now sporting a look that could make even Barry “The Mullet” Melrose jealous.
Who needs a playoff beard when you can fly around the ice with the tail ends of your playoff-mullet flapping in the breeze? Perhaps next season Jonathon Toews will consider being as creative as his linemate so we don’t have to see his pork chop sideburns pose as an attempt at a playoff beard.
Props to Kaner on this one for thinking outside the box, hopefully he can translate his creativity at the barber shop into some game changing plays in tonight’s game against Vancouver.
-Paul Czerwien
4 comments:
Mullets are awesome, they're even better than baseball mustaches, I loved Giambi's. How can anyone disagree with business in the front and party in the back. I know nothing of hockey so I wont talk about it but is there a relationship to hair and their respected sports? Hockey= mullet, baseball= clean cut, football= long hair like troy palomoloaioaaou, basketball = dreds, cornrows, and little goatees. I'm not for sure but some hair styles are so great that one sport cannot contain them. The mullet is one of them, check the Vikings Jared Allen if you need a picture.
How can you hate on mullets? Have you ever watched a hockey game? Have you heard of Barry Melrose or Brian Englam? It's part of the game. Maybe if you watched as much hockey as Pierre LeBrun you would know what you are talking about. Let's just hope the hawks roll tonight.
Who's hating on mullets? Mullets rock
I don't believe anyone hated on mullets in this post! GO HAWKS
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