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Top 25 NFL mustaches of all time

By John Buhler

Jul 30, 2016; St. Joseph, MO, USA; Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid talks to media after the Kansas City Chiefs training camp presented by Mosaic Life Care at Missouri Western State University. Mandatory Credit: Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports
Jul 30, 2016; St. Joseph, MO, USA; Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid talks to media after the Kansas City Chiefs training camp presented by Mosaic Life Care at Missouri Western State University. Mandatory Credit: Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports /
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PHOENIX – AUGUST 18: Arizona Cardinals field goal holder Scott Player #10 watches the ball after a field goal attempt during a game against the Houston Texans at the University of Phoenix Stadium on August 18, 2007 in Glendale, Arizona. The Texans won 33-20. (Photo by Gene Lower/Getty Images)
PHOENIX – AUGUST 18: Arizona Cardinals field goal holder Scott Player #10 watches the ball after a field goal attempt during a game against the Houston Texans at the University of Phoenix Stadium on August 18, 2007 in Glendale, Arizona. The Texans won 33-20. (Photo by Gene Lower/Getty Images) /

2. Scott Player

This is the time and the place to pay tribute to achievement in football career mustache excellence for former NFL punter Scott Player. He spent most of his 15-year professional football career with the Arizona Cardinals, where he would make a Pro Bowl in 2000.

However, we will best remember him for two things: rocking the best platinum blonde Fu Manchu this side of Hulk Hogan and being the last NFL player to wear a single-bar face mask. Player was grandfathered in to being allowed to wear that probably unsafe single-bar face mask, strictly because his Fu Manchu was just that good.

Why on earth would you let a special teams player have to cover up that platinum blonde gloriousness? No, Player wasn’t going to rip his tank off and call you brother ad nauseam, but he was going to have better facial hair than you while he punted the ball away from the Cardinals and held kicks for Neil Rackers to drill through the uprights.

It was really bro of him to keep that ‘stache and that single-bar face mask for as long as he did. While he hasn’t technically played in the NFL in a decade, part of me wants to see Player get another crack at winning a Super Bowl. Just make him the 53rd man on the roster so he can hold kicks with that ‘stache/face mask combo.

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