Mustaches for Michigan Wants You
Mustaches for Michigan is coming back! With only a few weeks until August, your bald and pale faces are on notice. Here's a refresher behind the simple tenets of Mustaches for Michigan:
1. Grow a beard in August
2. Shave it down to a glorious mustache on Sept. 4th for the UConn game
3. The mustache will do the rest.
Why a mustache? Well, it worked out pretty well for us last year. It's the power of the 'stache, man. Behold it. Love it. Grow it.
So here's the deal: We at Mustaches for Michigan want this to become an annual event. What started out as "Dude, lets' grow mustaches for the opener" became something more. It became a whole collective of Michigan Fans showing their support for their team. Even The Daily caught wind of our Mustaching Movement. So we thought, hey, let's open it up and see if our fellow MGoBloggers wanna contribute for the 2nd Annual Mustaches for Michigan outing. Let's expand that Mustaches for Michigan Collective into a Mustaches for Michigan Intelligentsia.
So if you feel like contributing -- you can be as involved as you have time for: a one time entry, a photoshopped image, MS Paint, whatever's in your wheelhouse -- shoot us an email to [email protected]. Our sole requirement is that you support the cause by, ya know, growing a beard in August and shaving it into a mustache on September 4th.
Grow Blue.
I shaved my beard into a 'stach just last week. I'll try to keep it growing until Sept 4th.
Consider it a dry-run for the Opener. Remember, every 'stache is sacred, David.
I'm still working on that mustache but I will get it one day. Go Blue!
To quote from ourselves from last year:
Ah yes, the Buckstache. The calling card of criminals, vagabonds, and ne’er-do-wells. So you might wonder....why would we willingly wade into these mustachioed waters? Be not afraid, the answer is that you will notice a fundamental difference between the wispy, unkempt trashiness of what our Southern counterparts call facial hair and The Michigan Man’s Mustache.
We simply hold ourselves to a higher standard of 'stache.
email Pam Ward, we don't want to exclude anybody who may be interested in participating.
but the remnants of a "Dirty Sanchez".
(as per usual) Convincing the girlfriend that facial hair is in fact, warranted in this way.
(luckily she's a reader and hopefully sees this and says "Ok, its for Michigan")
I really don't get why some girls don't like facial hair. Most guys actually look better with it.
I believe it's about a 50-50 look vs. texture thing.. she's just not a fan
A recent relative fusillade of research on the topic claims that while women claim to dislike facial hair, "stubble" and/or beards meaningfully positively correlate with initial attraction.
Women lie and/or don't know what they want? My world view, broken, lies in shards, scattered.
Is it a coincidence that I just shaved my beard last night, but decided to keep the 'stache?
I'm going to do my best to keep it going until Sept. 4th. Or at least until I decide to venture outside of my basement and meet girls.
Can you provide tape-on moustaches for those of us unable to grow facial hair?
yep. that's the link, thank you sir. like so:
I would if I could, but I still can't.
but I have the facial hair of a 12 year old.
None the less, growing is underway. If I start NOW, I may get something reasonably long and visible just in time for kickoff.
I wish it was soul patches for Michigan. My chin grows in pretty well.
I'm down for this as long as I can obtain a t-shirt to explain my ridiculous facial hair. I remember this happening last year but I didn't get organized enough to partake. Are the t-shirts (or optionally long-sleeve shirts) shown in the link made available through MGoStore or UGP (and shippable for those of us no longer near AA)?
Interesting idea, Ryan. Last year we four founding members had custom t-shirts made up for WMU... If there's enough interest, t-shirts are something that we can explore. Perhaps we'll work up a design and set up a poll/voting system on the website... Check www.mustachesformichigan.com in the coming weeks as we get things put together.
Are you guys going to be watching at South again for the opening game? I believe that is still the official LA Alumni game watching bar.
I would definitely be interested in a t-shirt.
I would like a Mustaches for Michigan t-shirt, too. Are these like Ohio State's above-average quarterbacking history--fictitious--or like Michigan's return atop the conference--palpable? Do they really exist?
Tom Selleck called, and he's taking my upper lip to court for identity theft.
The UPS woman who delivered at work today had a better 'stache than I will ever be able to grow.
Of course, she had a better 'stache than Jamie Hyneman.