When I was a youth, there was one thing that separated the men from the boys.
Hair!
The studly athletes generally sported buzz cuts or closely-cropped styles that underscored Virility! Manliness! Nothing sissy, dude!
The longhairs were fags, potheads, drop-outs or good-for-nothings!
Forget about the nerds!
Actually - when Bill Gates moved up in status and became one of the wealthiest men on the planet - a couple of my old school buddies moaned that in retrospect they wish they'd learned a little computer-speak in those pimply-faced teen years!
So, when it was reported that Sasha Vujacic stipulated that his new pact with the Lakers exclude a "haircut clause", I was a little flabbergasted.
Like Samson before him, were his lustrous locks the source of his stamina?
No matter, it wasn't the hair that bothered the General Manager Mitch Kupchak.
"It was the net or whatever that is. The hair's OK actually."
Well, it's great that Vujacic managed to secure a contract he's content with.
Otherwise, the Laker star would have been shipped off to Russia where he'd be freezin' his n**ts off in sub-zero temperatures.
Talk about stranded!
That's the long and short of it.
