Top 25 NFL mustaches of all time
By John Buhler
3. Ben Davidson
It’s fair to say that no professional football organization has historically embraced facial hair like the Oakland/Los Angeles/Oakland soon-to-be Las Vegas Raiders. From Ken Stabler to Fred Biletnikoff to Todd Christensen, Oakland did it better with upper lip follicle hair than everybody in the 1970s and 1980s.
One guy that we simply cannot forget about when it comes to facial hair excellence is former Raiders defensive end Ben Davidson. He may have played other places, but Davidson is best known as the AFL All-Star for the Raiders in the late 1960s. His mustache was certainly swashbuckling.
It had a buccaneer flair to it, as he could have known where the Dead Man’s Chest was. Davidson’s iconic mustache was thick, whimsical and magnificent. You better believe that he was immensely proud of that thing. Just look at it. That thing had more curve in it than Y.A. Tittle’s fingers.
Davidson would see his football career essentially come to an end in 1971 due to a ruptured Achilles’. He would play one more professional season in 1974, but spent the rest of his life doing TV spots and riding motorcycles. Davidson would pass away from prostate cancer in 2012 at the age of 72.