i mean his mustache isn't that bold...i mean it's there but it doesn't really pop out like some people's, or does he have the name because it's ugly as hell
Now that the Cleveland Troll's post is gone, I can finally answer your question *drum roll*:
Well... I have no idea. I use the nickname because I instantly liked it when I first read it (along with Morrison's NBA Live commercial). I guess white guys with flimsy mustaches are just so way un-NBA that it sticks out somehow.
Personally, I think his retro-70s-porn star-look rocks.
It's because of the mustache, but there is more to it. In a Portland workout prior to the draft, there were a group of fans waiting for the management to come outside, and once they did they were chanting "draft the stache!". That's where the name originated.
Again, no answer to your question, but I just had to post this (from over at slamonline.com):
Draft night ceased to be spectacle as usual when Adam Morrison from Gonzaga, the NCAA's leading scorer in 2006, was picked third by the Charlotte Bobcats. We learned in the post-draft interview that Morrison cried when Rage Against the Machine broke up. As ESPN's Stuart Scott needled him, Morrison in plain language defended his right to cry: a nice counter to the macho laws of jockocracy. But Morrison is more than a chronic weeper who sports a bizarre caterpillar mustache and pageboy haircut straight out of Degrassi Junior High. He is also someone who has said that his heroes, in addition to Rage, are "Malcolm X, Karl Marx, and Che Guevara." Why Che? As he told USA Today, "Just the adversity he dealt with in life, what he did for small countries of the world as a whole. Standing up for lower people, instead of the top tier. That takes a lot of guts on the world level to do that. So that's what's drawn me to him." Morrison was also a Nader voter in 2004, and someone who is known for getting in raucous debates on the team bus on everything from the logic of capitalism to the merits of national health care. "I've been told that's what you are supposed to do in college," he has said. "It's the last time in your life, pretty much, when you get to question authority... You're going to be answering to somebody else for the rest of your life." When Gonzaga coach Mark Few advised players to attend church, Morrison stood up and wrote on Few's dry-erase board "Religion is the opiate of the masses." Let's hope Morrison realizes that this kind of questioning is something he doesn't have to forgo just because he’s employed by the NBA.
In a Portland workout prior to the draft, there were a group of fans waiting for the management to come outside, and once they did they were chanting "draft the stache!". That's where the name originated.
No that's not where it originated. Gonzaga is another college in Spokane, Washington which is way far east of University of Washington (here in Seattle) and so of course there is a huge rivalry. When Gonzaga came to play here in Seattle fans were shouting stuff like "Take a Shower" and "Shave your mustache!" to try and disrupt his play. Didn't work though, he dropped like 43 on us that game, but we still won.
That still doesn't say anything about the name "stache".
I read an article on draftexpress I think it was, and the article stated what I said. I was just going by that.
That still doesn't say anything about the name "stache".
I read an article on draftexpress I think it was, and the article stated what I said. I was just going by that.
Yeah. I'm assuming it was just people building off of that since it helped establish his mustache as an identity. But who knows maybe the people at the workout didn't know anything about that game.
He is also someone who has said that his heroes, in addition to Rage, are "Malcolm X, Karl Marx, and Che Guevara."
What the hell? I'm sure Marx did other things in life besides basically give birth to Communism, but damn, I hope Stache aint a Commie.
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When Gonzaga coach Mark Few advised players to attend church, Morrison stood up and wrote on Few's dry-erase board "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Eh, I don't necessarily agree with that, but hey, he's already shown he isn't the normal type of guy.
Adam is an outspoken open-minded kid who is (unfortunately) taking up residence in one of the most vanilla conservative metro regions in the country. Hopefully he won't alienate all the bland Wachovia employees who park their fat a.s.s.e.s in the luxury boxes--'cause those are the people who Bob Johnson is trying to win back.
In the meantime--I'll be cheering him on from the cheap seats.
Why is Morrison called "Stache"?
