Comments on: The Brian D. Baschnagel Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Facial Hair

By: TA

TA — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:16:35 +0000

My God, when I was in high school I had a mustache like Brian Baschnagel’s. It was a beaut., minus the fact I sucked at football. The good ole days, back before we were turned into hairless metros.

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:45:18 +0000

I would have to say Abdallah’s beard is the best looking of the bunch and in the spirit of the award, it should go to Abdallah because of his great performance this year!

By: Kip

Kip — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:22:35 +0000

In terms of the all around award, the beard itself and on and off the field performance it is tough not to go with Abdallah. Mainly because of the heavy workload and strong perfomance, though as mentioned the beard itself is rather mediocre. My idea about facial hair has always been to wear it for the comedy of it, as opposed to the aesthetically pleasing qualities of it. In that vain my winner, by pictures above is Boom and by my general knowledge of their beard is Jenkins.

With Boom slap on a nice bland outfit give him a butter churn, rename him Hezekiah and move him out to amish country, the comedy of that is great. Jenkins, well all I can say is he reminded me of the episode of Bevis and Butthead where they “grow” beards.

By: El Caballo de Sangre

El Caballo de Sangre — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:34:52 +0000

I vote for Donnie Evege – that thin sheen of a ‘stache plus his flowing locks makes him look like a member of DeBarge or Ready for the World minus the Jheri-Curl.

On a separate note, these pics reminded me of one of my own personal hobby-horses: I’d like to see Tressel ban the messages-on-the-eyeblack-strip thing. WTF do Laurinaitis et al. want me to do, root for the Buckeyes or go running for my Bible to look up this week’s recommended Scripture?

There’s a semi-serious point to be made here – what’s Nader Abdallah supposed to think when he looks into Laurinaitis’ face? What’s every Christian (or – GASP! – non-believer) associated with the team, from Tressel on down to some Lutheran towel boy, supposed to think if Nader puts “Sura 2:23-4″ on his face, which verse – at least on a cursory reading – damns them to suffer violence in this world and the next as an infidel?

Not to mention Pryor’s Block “O”/buckeye leaf combo, which looks like something a cheerleader – a female one – would wear.

By: Vico

Vico — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:03:52 +0000

In terms of dirtstaches, I think Evege’s was superior to Pryor. That, and I couldn’t find much in the way of pictures for Pryor.

Same for Jenkins. I couldn’t find a quality pic of Jenkins’ beard, only of a slightly trimmed Van Dyck.

By: E

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:00:42 +0000

No love for the Pryor-dirt-stache? What about Jenkins’ beard?

Even with those additions, I’ve got to give it to Nader–more because the kid deserves more recognition for stepping up and leading the D-line in the 2nd half of the season, even if it is the BDBAOAFFH.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:35:11 +0000

either donnie or cam get my vote. i would describe their upper lip facial hair displays as both “pretty” and “smooth”, which is tough to accomplish.

By: Vico

Vico — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:46:17 +0000

You know, I did have him in that list, and then I took him out for some reason. I’ll put him back in.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:03:17 +0000

Vico,
Good candidates, all. I’d include Cam H, since IMHO his facial hair is rather smartly trimmed. Great job with the BDBAOAFFH award design. It’s much better looking than the MSU-PSU Land Grant Trophy, or whateverthehellitis they play for..