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Mustachioed
Michigan men
Football fans sport lip covers
for the season opener
A strange correlation of sports
fandom is that the more diehard the
fan, the more dignity to sacrificed
to support his or her team of choice.
Grown men paint their entire bod-
ies primary colors, dress as animals
and chant rhymes like their lives
depend on it.
But one group of Michigan foot-
ball fans has taken the reverential
humiliation one step farther. You
might have seen some of its mem-
bers at Saturday's game - they were
the guys who looked like they just
stepped off the set of a'70s porno.
Mustaches for Michigan is a
movement started by a group of
University alums who think the
best way for diehard Michigan
fans to support their team at the
first game is to bear their alle-
giance on their upper lip.
"This is kind of our response
to being all in for Michigan," said
Keith Patterson, who helped found
the movement with three alumni
who are also living in Los Angeles.
"It's just kind af samething that
started among us four that's like,
'Let's grow a mustache for that
opener,' and it kind of grew from
there."
Along with Patterson, musta-
chioed Michigan men Jeff McKib-
ben, Will Bransdorfer and Joel
Morgan spread the word to other
fans through a blog they have
diligently tended since July. The
message: grow a beard throughout
August and shave it into a luxuri-
ous 'stache for game day.
The posts on Mustachesfor-
Michigan.com are a combination
of anticipatory enthusiasm for the
start of the season and advice on
mustache care.
"Have you thought about what
style ofmustacheyouwillbesport-
ing on Sept. 5?" reads a post on
Sept. 1that linked to an illustrated
styling guide. "Hopefully, you've
taken into consideration shaving
and grooming into account as you
fantasized about this coming Sat-
urday. So allow us to be the first to
tell you, if you don't already know
- there are bunches of ways to
ABOUT CAMPUS
ILLUSTRATIONSBYJOHN OQIT
ILLUSTRATION BY LAURA GARAVOGLIA
style the 'stache! Will it be the clas- just chose to trim his usual facial
sic (and white trashish) chevron? A hair to meet the movement's call.
handle-bar? The pencil mustache? His eight-person football group
Decisions,decisions." all followed suit, with all the
Paul Cummings, a graduate stu- men growing mustaches and one
dent in the College of Engineering, woman sporting a fake one.
But mustaches made appear-
ances elsewhere besides Ann Arbor.
At a Michigan alumni gathering in
Washington D.C., 2007 LSA gradu-
ate Dan Taylor said he ran into other
bewhiskered fans.
"We went downto the alumnibar
down in D.C. yesterday, and every
10 or 11 people you'd see with a mus-
tache and you'd give them a high
five or a handshake," Taylor said.
Sadly, Taylor's whiskers were
short-lived, since his wife was not
a fan and Taylor suspected that
his consulting clients wouldn't be
either. But Taylor plans to continue
the tradition and sport a nice, thick
handlebar for next year's season
opener.
To the Mustaches for Michigan
founders, the lip cover is the appro-
priate symbol of support for Michi-
gan football - and the ultimate
expression of strength and style.
"It almost harkens back to the
tale of Samson and Delilah in that
one's power grows as one's mus-
tache increases," Morgan said.
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"Delilah shaved Samson's head, he
lost all his power. I'd like to think
that if my mustache were shaved
off of me in the middle of the night
then I'd feel like less of a man in the
morning."
It's hard to predict the future of
fashion - the handlebar mustache
may very well never grace the pages
of Vogue as one of the season's high
fashions. But if it does, the Mus-
taches for Michigan founders have
one unanimous sentiment: "God
help us."
Regardless of what fashion dic-
tates, we probably haven't seen the
last of the Michigan mustache.
In a postgame e-mail, Patterson
wrote howhe thoughtSaturday was
a success - for both Michigan foot-
ball and the supporting'staches.
"We had a solid mustached show-
ing," he wrote. "Our team won, and
definitively so. Does one have any-
thingto do with the other? Only our
mustaches know the answer to that
question."
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