I just got a haircut

by Mike Rutherford on Mar 13, 2009 1:44 PM EDT in Basketball Comment 14 comments

To most of you, the headline above may seem like an unnecessary foray into my personal life, but longtime CC readers are all too aware of the significance.

It was early November, 2006. I was a starry-eyed undergraduate with less than a year of blogging under my belt, and the football team I love was the talk of the sports world.

Unbeaten, ranked third and just a week removed from the biggest win in program history, the Louisville Cardinals were a mere four victories away from playing for the national title in Glendale, Ariz.

In a move that would have forced Crash Davis into an early retirement, I decided this was the perfect time to get a fresh fade for the first time since late August.

Debate raged, Louisville traveled to Jersey to face equally unbeaten Rutgers, the game started, something about a field goal and a penalty, Scarlet Knight fans rushed the field, I was unhappy, "ill-advised haircut" took on a personality of its own.

On the drive home this afternoon my mind was bombarded with ways to justify this, but all were hollow and lacking any semblance of truth. If this were October or late September I would have just let things go and been Joaquin Phoenix for Halloween, but it's not, and 24-year-old Mike Rutherford simply can't pull off the approaching homeless look like 19-year-old Mike Rutherford thought he could.

Ideally, this would have been done yesterday with less on the line and a more manageable rookie haircut opponent, but life is life, and the fine folks at SuperCuts don't make in-house visits.

I don't know what else to say other than that I'm sorry, and that I'm still confident we can make this work.

We're at the Comfort Inn. Room 112. I love you.

Go Cards.

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I don't feel good about this rash

ill-timed

move…

Two more days, two more days!

by frankpos on Mar 13, 2009 1:56 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Thought about it

Right before the NCAA Tournament would have been worse.

by Mike Rutherford on Mar 13, 2009 1:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hmmm. can't fault that logic either

damned if you do,

shaggy as hell if you don’t

by frankpos on Mar 13, 2009 2:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh God...

First words that came out of my mouth when I read the headline… I remember all too well what happened with the last “haircut.”

You have cut the soul out of our team and we will proceed to lose to Villanova and then lose in the second round on the NCAA tournament to a crappy 7 or 10 seed. Nice going, Mike………………

But… We broke the curse of MSG yesterday by winning so maybe that’s enough karma to make it past your chop.

by Noonway on Mar 13, 2009 2:07 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

If it makes you feel any better

It really doesn’t look all that good.

by Mike Rutherford on Mar 13, 2009 2:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Tear Jerker Country Western Hit

Words and Music by Frankpos concerning newly shorn blogger of CC

“Handsome Homeless Man.”

Will it make a stone weep? Oh yeah, oh yeah.

by Roz on Mar 13, 2009 2:17 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

NOOOOOO!

by Final4Galore on Mar 13, 2009 2:44 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

At first I was upset.

And now I’m really upset. The New Year’s Eve loss is becoming an annual event, we still haven’t performed all that well at Madison Square Garden, and ADMM has given us an all new potential jinx.

I don’t like this. Not. One. Bit.

by CARD_G6 on Mar 13, 2009 2:54 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

$60 Remington Home Clipper Set

You and the rest of Cardinal nation can thank me… next year?

by CardinalEmpire.com on Mar 13, 2009 3:00 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I just remembered and would like to point out

That my last cut was approximately two days before the first ’Nova game.

Am I saying that’s why Antonio Pena missed those free-throws? Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying.

by Mike Rutherford on Mar 13, 2009 3:15 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

dont worry Mike

I havent had my hair cut in roughly a year…got ya covered

by twistedwedge on Mar 13, 2009 3:39 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Well...

….a loss yesterday would have been much worse. Nova is not Providence.

Although frankly the Rutgers loss was my fault – I had my black #7 jersey on during most of the game, and when Rutgers started coming back I thought for some reason it was the black #7’s fault, so I switched to Red …. and then we lost. We were ahead the whole time I had black #7 on!

All of that said:

CardsFan922: This damn thing was your idea, and you convinced me to do it, and now people’s lives are ruined.

Mike Rutherford:
Ruined? Like, whose life is ruined?

CardsFan922: Well, let’s see. Big Blue is dead. ROZ is divorced. Quinn1979 lost his house. Everyone thinks Phauz is a total jackass. And now we got nine kids who are gonna lose in the BET and you’re not even gonna help ’em out.

by CardsFan922 on Mar 13, 2009 4:14 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs