Hair Then, Gone Today

Love that scruff.

If this picture was worth a thousand words, maybe about nine hundred of them would be about hair. And as anyone who has seen my twitter feed might know, I appreciate hair.

It’s too bad that our sport has to be played with a cap on, in some ways. Looking at the 1978 Phillies, the rarity is an un-interesting ‘do.’ The butt-cutts, the afros of all persuasions, the mustaches, the chin straps, the hints of mid-eighties style beginning to emerge – it’s all awesome. If they were allowed, like in basketball, to play with their freak flags flying, we might have had some really interesting pictures of that era – not that the sight of Oscar Gamble with a hat on didn’t have its’ own charm.

But if we did have a game without hats – if we did, we could then have an interesting hair watch here at the NotG. Heck, maybe we’ll do it anyway.

H/T: Tommy Bennett pointing to the Mighty Flynn on Tumblr