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I’m not sure if you lads have heard, but there’s a Michael Jordan docuseries on ESPN called The Last Dance that began airing this weekend. Maybe you’ve heard of it, maybe you haven’t, but either way, get used to it, because we’re going to be talking about MJ for WEEKS.
Naturally, following the excellent first two hours of the documentary, basketball fans across the globe have been sharing and discussing their favorite Michael Jordan tidbits and anecdotes. Take my boss Jason, for example: he posted an entire (and admittedly awesome) thread about all of the MJ memorabilia he had stashed away at his parents’ house.
https://twitter.com/JCamm_/status/1251873358892994560
There are stories about his otherworldly will to win, his relationship with Scottie Pippen, and his constant bullying of teammates, reporters, and general managers. All of that is fine and dandy. But because basketball is my fourth favorite professional sport — behind the two footballs and baseball — my brain wandered in a different direction as I took in The Last Dance: “hey, everyone remember when he showed up in that fucking Hanes commercial from a decade-or-so-ago rockin’ an Adolph Hitler-styled mustache?!”
If you know what I’m talking about, you likely don’t even need to see the commercial to recall the details, as the image is likely burned into your brain, and if you somehow haven’t seen the clip, feast your eyes on one of the most bizarre personal-grooming choices in recent memory.
I get that MJ is a proudly self-proclaimed asshole but I’m not sure this move can be explained away as mere arrogance: everyone knows that this style of mustache harkens back to one of the most heinous human beings in of all-time. And yet there MJ was, sitting in coach class in a Hanes T, rocking the fuck out of it. The hell was that all about?
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Eric is a New York City-based writer who still isn’t quite sure how he’s allowed to have this much fun for a living and will tell anyone who listens that Gotham City is canonically in New Jersey. Follow him on Twitter @eric_ital for movie and soccer takes or contact him eric@brobible.com