With so much talent departing from our senior class last year it looked like this season would be a wash. We lost our top two guys, and I'll admit I was pretty pessimistic about the Bowdoin men's chances for doing anything at all this season. But then December came in, and with it a glimmer of hope for the Bowdoin men - Rainer put down his razor and said enough was enough. Pretty soon Spencer and myself decided that we too were done accepting mediocrity. Unfortunately, most of our freshmen seemed to worry that this was some sort of prank or hazing ritual - and to make matters worse one of our top men thought that by going for broke he would ruin his chances with the ladies (he didn't have a chance as it was). Bowdoin, however, would not be undone. We got back to campus and started working like we've never worked before. I am pleased to say that a team which came in with almost no talent whatsoever rose to the occasion and put in some fairly respectable showings for the Bowdoin Nordic team's most important competition. Yes, I am talking about one of Bowdoin College's oldest traditions/competitions - the 214th annual Men's Nordic Team Beard Growing competition (The competition took several years off during WWI and WWII out of respect for the soldiers).
In the tradition of other great Bowdoin Beards like Matthew Bowers' interpretation of Ambrose Burnside's, Niko Kubota's 7 stray chin hairs, Nat Herz's single side burn, and countless other exhibits of pure Skill, Determination, Talent, and Hardwork I am pleased to announce the 2011 Nordic Beards:
2 comments:
Best blog post ever.
You guys make me so proud! I read this in class and had trouble not laughing out loud. Miss you guys.
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