My complaint was that there were less noteworthy athletes listed, as well as imperfect mustaches. Jason Campbell has a killer 'stache, or so I thought.
One of the great advantages of blogging is that it loves a dialogue more than, say, a newspaper. The Washington Post and the Washington Times have better things to do with their time than publish their internal mustache semantics debate. I don't have anything better to do. I don't have any reader s , either, which really means there aren't any editorial restraints on what I can write about.
If I want to start a fight over Jason Campbell's mustache, I can do so. And if the American Mustache Institute wants to bravely join me in that worthwhile discussion, I am all too happy to oblige. Posted below, with their permission, is the official response to my post from AMI :. That being said, we would welcome a Washington-based write-in campaign as our executive director is a D.
Louis to found AMI so its campus would be within close proximity to the world's largest mustache - the St. Louis Arch. Maybe a Mike Flanagan write-in effort? How about Rick Dempsey? But the debate is tremendous and worthy.
The best sports mustache is an important cultural discussion. Because as we all know - a mustache is a terrible thing to waste. So that's a good thing, AMI. That said, I find any suggestion that Jason Campbell's chin hair negates either his mustache or his "real man"ness both absurd and insulting. Absurd because we are not talking about enough chin hair to qualify as a beard; a quick glance at Jason Campbell tells us that the focus of his facial hair is and remains on the upper lip.
