Society/Culture Andre Agassi - Shocking revelations

[Blight von Torp]

http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/news?slug=ys-agassi_wig&prov=afp&type=lgns

LONDON (AFP) – Former tennis star Andre Agassi has admitted the lion mane-style hairstyle he sported during the 1990s was actually a wig, in extracts from his autobiography published in British newspapers Saturday.


Agassi said he wore a hairpiece held together with pins in his first Grand Slam final, the 1990 French Open final, and blamed his concerns that it would fall apart for losing the match to Andres Gomez.



Before the match he prayed “not for victory, but that my hairpiece would not fall off”, he writes in “Open”.

That's just too funny.

 

[JimDocker]

That's just too funny.

Yeah. Going bald is ****ing hilarious !

 

[bit_pattern]

Yeah, yeah!

 

[JimDocker]

When I started going bald, I just kept my hair short. Why would anybody think a mullet was a better option?

 

[DeanoT]

Such a let down. Agassi was my hero during my teen tennis days. The crystal meth I can forgive. The fake mullet, well.... I just feel so cheated.

 

[dmc333]

Weird, wonder which part was fake? I remember when he finally shaved it... well there's the pic below and he still had a reasonable amount of hair, and that was 5 years after this hair piece incident.

 

[Tex_21]

When I started going bald, I just kept my hair short. Why would anybody think a mullet was a better option?

This. Seriously-if it's going, keep it short. It's neat and you don't look like a knob head.

 

[rdhopkins2]

Haha atleast I cut mine nice and short. Though I could go short on top and mullet at the back for an epic win should I move to Frankston one day.

 

[Blight von Torp]

Weird, wonder which part was fake? I remember when he finally shaved it... well there's the pic below and he still had a reasonable amount of hair, and that was 5 years after this hair piece incident.

I'm assuming both these pictures are with the hairpiece. I knew Tina Turner's was fake, but you've got to hand it to him how he had everyone fooled.

 

[bunsen burner]

I spat my food out when I read about this.

Ice? Yeah, nah. Whatever.

Hairpiece? You f***ing what? You got to be shitting me. You wore a lion's mane hairpiece? You mean that atrocity was a wig! Too funny.

I'm not sure why the media thought the crystal-meth thing was a more newsworthy scoop. Surely the lion's mane wig takes the cake.

I bet next week's excerpt will be:

"Those denim tennis shorts I wore at Wimbledon weren't really shorts. I had them spraypainted on".

 

[Empire_Persian]

I love Agassi, because he was half Persian...

sadly, these Persian roots are to blame for the baldness and drugs.

 

[blackcat]

I'm assuming both these pictures are with the hairpiece. I knew Tina Turner's was fake, but you've got to hand it to him how he had everyone fooled.

nah, first one is not a hairpiece. Second one is an atrocious rat.

 

[krusden]

I'm assuming both these pictures are with the hairpiece. I knew Tina Turner's was fake, but you've got to hand it to him how he had everyone fooled.

certainly had me fooled - i just thought it was a ridiculous "inspired by billy ray cyrus" haircut myself.

 

[Jumpin' Jimmy]

I spat my food out when I read about this.

Ice? Yeah, nah. Whatever.

Hairpiece? You f***ing what? You got to be shitting me. You wore a lion's mane hairpiece? You mean that atrocity was a wig! Too funny.

I'm not sure why the media thought the crystal-meth thing was a more newsworthy scoop. Surely the lion's mane wig takes the cake.

I bet next week's excerpt will be:

"Those denim tennis shorts I wore at Wimbledon weren't really shorts. I had them spraypainted on"

I'm worried it will be "Steffi Graf is really a bloke"

 

[Blight von Torp]

nah, first one is not a hairpiece.

Yeah not sure about that. His admission was pretty clear - anything after 1990 was a wig.