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October 31, 2009
Agassi: My Mullet Almost Fell Off at 1990 French Open: During the 1990 French Open finals, Andre Agassi's first trip to a Grand Slam final, the "Image is Everything" pitchman was paranoid about his hairweave mullet falling off during the match. "The evening before the match, I stood under the shower and felt my wig suddenly fall apart," he writes in his autobiography. "Probably I used the wrong hair rinse. ... During the warming-up training before play I prayed. Not for victory, but that my hairpiece would not fall off." Agassi lost the match to Andres Gomez -- the only Grand Slam title of the Ecuadorian's career.
Speaking as a former member of the Mullet Club for Men, I can attest for the fact that mullets did not "just sort of" happen. You had to make them happen.
posted by rcade at 12:56 PM on October 31, 2009
former member of the Mullet Club for Men
MacGruber!
posted by Mr Bismarck at 01:22 PM on October 31, 2009
Speaking as a former member of the Mullet Club for Men,
I was a member too, brother. Try being a musician in the 80's and NOT having one. It was glorious and flowing and people bowed to it's might and authority. And it was ridiculous and I won't be sharing any pictures here. There are enough of them on the web anyway.
As for Agassi: Senator Vreenak, if you would do the honors.
posted by THX-1138 at 02:32 PM on October 31, 2009
My mom wouldn't let me grow a mullet, no matter how much I pitched a fit at the barber shop. I love my mother.
posted by dusted at 04:24 PM on October 31, 2009
I think this is potentially more embarrassing than the crystal meth revelations.
posted by owlhouse at 05:15 PM on October 31, 2009
I thought mullets just sort of happened over time as various people in the neighborhood who fancied themselves as budding stylists took a whack at your head o' hair.
I had no idea there was such a thing as an elective mullet.
I had no idea that Agassi had any sort of rug to begin with.
My mind is less burdened with factual effluence than I thought it was.
I am grateful.
Please tell me that there are no upper torso hair weaves on the men's tour.
Or the women's tour.