Top 25 NFL mustaches of all time

6. Cliff Harris

Cliff Harris helped redefine how the position of free safety was played in the NFL. He made six Pro Bowls and was part of five Dallas Cowboys teams that went to the Super Bowl in the 1970s. Harris may have ended his NFL career at age 31 in 1979 to get involved in the lucrative oil business, but his mustache was incredible.

With the clear male pattern baldness he had going on atop his noggin, Harris essentially paved the way for the cliché dad ‘stache of the 1980s before the 1980s arrived. He may have been an absolute maniac on the gridiron for Tom Landry’s Cowboys, but Harris looked like the type of dude you’d let come to your suburban cul-de-sac cookout.

It was a uniform, thick mustache that could have though about going Captain Hook on us if Harris would have let it do its thing. But no, he had to drive wide receivers and running backs into the ground playing high-speed ball for the Cowboys in the 1970s.

Harris was basically everything My Name Is Earl wanted to be.  Had Harris had been the lead singer of Stillwater, maybe Russell Hammond writes more than one really good song called “Fever Dog”? With Harris as the frontman, we hold Stillwater in high regard as the American Led Zeppelin.