Joel Quenneville, the venerable coach of the Chicago Blackhawks, currently has the team on the brink of their first Stanley Cup since 1961.  And by Joel Quenneville, I mean his mustache.  There is nothing like a quality gray mustache that says to players, “Follow me.  I will bring you to the glory land.”

Not since Mike Ditka has a stache had such power over Chicago.  The hockey hopes and dreams of a city that has been starved of a Cup win for almost 50 years is pinned, quite literally, to the upper lip of the man to the left.  Because, if they close out the series they currently lead 3-2, they will win the second greatest trophy in all of sports.  Behind the World Cup, of course.  But only because no league has created a Golden Mustache as a trophy.

We’re just about ready to see the puck drop in the Olympic gold medal game between USA and Canada.   Mustaches around North America and the world are giddy with excitement.  Who is going to win?  It is up in the air, but when you type “USA mustache” into Google images, this is what comes up.  When you type in “Canada mustache” a picture of Hitler appears.

Let’s go Yankees!

Gawker proclaimed the faux mustache of French Olympic snowboarder Mathiew Crepel to be the most ironic in all the world. Why is Mathieu Crepel’s mustache the World’s Most Ironic Mustache? Quoth Gawker:

1. Beginner’s irony: It is a fake, black-ink mustache on an adult.
2. Advanced-placement irony: It is drawn on top of his real mustache.
3. Nationalist irony: A teensy, curling mustache on a Frenchman, at an competition that emphasizes one’s citizenship.

He didn’t get a medal, but he gets the Gold in fake mustaches in our book.

Photo taken wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

New Orleans Saints star Reggie Bush, after having won the Super Bowl, is now featured in a milk mustache commercial. Milk mustaches may be fake but they’re delicious. More so if you have a real mustache underneath.

The folks over at 7th Inning Stache have been inducting notable ball players with mustaches into the MLB Mustache Hall of Fame. Here is a sample of the inductees to date.

[MLB Mustache Hall of Fame via 7th Inning Stache]

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Hockey players, specifically Canadian hockey players, are renowned for a lot of things: their badassity, their fighting ability, their ridiculous haircuts and general dismissal of fashion (annoying pretty boy and Canadian Sean Avery aside), their storied traditions concerning facial hair.

Dan Carcillo is the holy grail of the above requirements:

1.  Canadian?  Born in King City, Ontario.

2.  Badassity?  He has grown a stache to honor past Flyers such as forward Dave Schultz.

3.  Fighting ability?  Carcillo led the NHL in penalty minutes in 2007-2008.  It’s safe to assume that he understands the rules of hockey (read: dude fights).

4.  Ridiculous haircuts?  Combining his Shawn Hunter/Eric Matthews haircut from 1999 with his skinny stache, if he was out of his Flyers uniform he would not be allowed near children.

5.  Storied traditions?  The guy grew a mustache to honor the men who paved his way, an honor on par with being elected to the Hall of Fame.  Come playoff time, Carcillo’s mustache may be swallowed by his playoff beard, but until then, he is the official Stachist representative in the NHL.

The Central Michigan Chippewas won the GMAC Bowl in thrilling fashion earlier tonight, defeating Troy in double overtime.  Some would say it was the masterful quaterbacking of senior Dan LeFevour.  They would be wrong.

The win was clearly a direct result of interim head coach Steve Stripling’s robust stache.  Speaking of which. . . Central Michigan?  Interim head coach?  ARE YOU KIDDING ME?  What does a guy have to do to get rid of that interim title.  Clearly not just having an awesome lip carpet.  Maybe winning a bowl game will help, but I’m not sure if I want to live in a world where bowl wins are valued more than mustaches.

In addition to wearing their trowback jerseys in their game this Sunday against the Ravens, some Pittsburgh Steelers are growing staches to make the look more authentic. In particular, Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who said his is a tribute to former Cincinnati Bengals quarterback and current Steelers quarterbacks coach Ken Anderson.

I know what team I’m betting on.

During last night’s MNF game on ESPN, the Arizona Cardinals turned the ball over 7 times en route to losing 24-9 to the San Francisco 49ers.  What’s that?  San Francisco is home to banana, the founder of this very blog?  Intriguing.  What do you think the odds are that this game showcased not only sloppy ball control by the Cardinals, but also a mustache to end all other mustaches? 

I’d say pretty good.  Behold: MUSTACHE FAN

This is what awesome looks like

Even though I am indifferent to the Mets, I can throw my support behind a blog whose title and banner pay homage to one of the greatest Staches in MLB history, the one belonging to Keith Hernandez.  The Daily Stache has been providing Mets fans with insider news since March, 2008.

Besides winning a World Series with the Mets, Hernandez parlayed his glorious stache into appearances on Seinfeld and in Just For Men commercials, both times as himself.  Because when you have a mustache like that, why would you ever pretend to be someone else?

In this case, MLB does not stand for Major League Baseball- it is clearly Mustache Legend’s Blog.