Top 25 NFL mustaches of all time
By John Buhler
15. Ken Anderson
One of the most underrated quarterbacks of all-time definitely had one of the most underrated mustaches of all-time. He slung the pigskin and scrambled quite a good bit in a 16-year career entirely with the Cincinnati Bengals. Ken Anderson was a good quarterback with a great mustache.
It’s gone now, but man, did it look fantastic during the latter part of his near-Hall of Fame career with the Bengals in the 1980s. Even when Cincinnati struggled at times with him under center, that ‘stache of his always looked great beneath that two-bar Bengals helmet.
In a way, it gave stupid dads across America hope that they could one day be cool with their kids in the 1970s and 1980s. Anderson embodied the quarterback with the dad-ly mustache better than anybody in his era. To me, that has to be a tipping point for his Hall of Fame candidacy, right? You didn’t see Boomer Esiason or Phil Simms own the facial follicles like Anderson did, now did you?
Anderson was noted as one of the most accurate passers of his era. He was running an experimental passing game that would become the popular West Coast offense. Did his mustache make him a more accurate passer as his career progressed? I mean, how could it not have?