The shocking promise of dollars from Charles O.
Finley birthed a vibrissae at play
and lips from which strayed hair belayed-
seventeen 'staches of summertime growth.
Men nicknamed for creatures - The Vulture,
Catfish, Buck - and kid VIda Blue,
clad in green and gold of garish hues
as ambassadors of a rough hewn culture.
The league office hoped for clean-shaven jaws
not men torn from an old western past
but the Seventies would see no bigger winners
than men who, bound by byzantine laws,
fought their owner and the shorn to the last,
with the verve and animosity of beginners.
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