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stillers4me
02-08-2011, 05:06 PM
With his season over, Brett Keisel (http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6101/)(notes) (http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6101/news) is ready to scrap his scruffy style.
Forget “Fear the Beard.”

Much to the disappointment of the bushy growth’s nearly 30,000 Facebook fans, it’s time to “Shear the Beard.”

“It’s coming off soon,” Keisel said outside the Steelers practice facility. “I’m not exactly sure when or how it’s going to happen. But it’s going to come off soon. It was a good thing. I think looking back, I wouldn’t change it.”

Win or lose the Super Bowl, Keisel’s lumberjack look was in for a makeover.

He had promised not to cut or trim the reddish-brown beard as long as the Steelers kept winning. So, Keisel can bust out the clippers this week, though his full-bodied facial hair surely would have kept him warm during a Super Bowl parade that would have been held on a frigid Tuesday had the Steelers beat the Packers in the Super Bowl.Instead, his whiskers will soon swirl down the drain like the Steelers’ championship dreams...............................

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SteelerEmpire
02-08-2011, 07:31 PM
Yep. Time to "focus" on next season... period. Like 'true' champions do...

Dino 6 Rings
02-08-2011, 07:49 PM
Yep, because unlike 25 or so other fan bases we actually can go into the off season believing...we'll be right back in the freaking hunt for a trophy!