THE SUPERBOWL: A CLOSE SHAVE

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

All of us at Kennedy’s All-American Barber Club® were as blown away as you probably were by the jaw-dropping finish of this year’s Super Bowl, one of the greatest games of all time. It looked like the Cardinals had it in the bag when Steelers quarterback Roethlisberger roared back to lead his team to the winning touchdown in the last 35 seconds of the game.

Naturally, we look at things a little differently at Kennedy’s – as in how did the players’ personal grooming affect the game play? Go ahead, laugh if you will, but we think we discovered why the Cardinals got clipped and the Steelers stormed to a last-minute win.

Kurt Warner’s “stubble stumble.”

The Cardinals’ QB had been famous for his “11 o’clock shadow,” as one of his old teammates on the Rams put it, for years. Warner was a man who never met a razor he liked. “People ask me all the time, ‘When is your son going to shave?’ ” Kurt’s mother Sue said way back in a 1999 “Sports Illustrated” article. “The answer, I’m afraid, is never.”
Warner himself said he couldn’t stand using a razor and would only use an electric beard trimmer on his face (obviously never having experienced a Kennedy’s relaxing, luxurious straight-razor shave from one of our expert barbers!).

But sometime this past month or so, something changed. And that something was the lack of tiny hairs protruding from the star QB’s face. Kurt Warner’s face was suddenly as clean as his All-American, Christian image.

It wasn’t the barber that made him do it – it was his wife. “She’s telling me to shave, and that I look old, that my beard’s gray,” said Warner, last week, pre-Super Bowl.
Post-Super Bowl, does he regret the move? Did he mess with success by changing his look going into the big game? Should the Cardinals formally reprimand Brenda Warner?

We don’t have all the answers. But superstition and sports go hand-in-hand – and we personally believe Kurt Warner should’ve stuck with his stubble. But, on the other hand, we also believe that discerning gentlemen and businessmen everywhere need a clean-shaven look to keep their good luck going –the caveman look usually doesn’t go over well with clients or in the board room.

So stop in a Kennedy’s All-American Barber Club®, where you’ll get the closest, most relaxing shave you’ve ever had. Check out our locations and franchise opportunities at http://www.kennedysbarberclub.com/franchises . As long as you’re not quarterbacking in the Super Bowl, it’ll do you a world of good.

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