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Hair Dos, Don'ts, and IDKs

Hair

Like with all professional sports, Major League Baseball players are special. Not only are they the best in the world at what they do, but they carry very unique personalities which manifest themselves in a variety of ways. Among the ways athletes express themselves is through their appearance - and sometimes that results in the worst hair in baseball. Who has the ugliest hair in baseball?Major League Baseball players use helmets while they are on offense and wear a cap while they are in the field. Unlike football, where the helmet covers the entire head and the face mask covers the face, baseball players have more freedom to express themselves with their choice of hairstyle, though that isn't always for the best. From Randy Johnson's mullet to Pete Rose's bowl cut, there has been plenty of bad hair in baseball over the course of MLB history.So which baseball stars truly have the most terrible hair in the history of the sport? That's for you to decide. Vote up the worst baseball player hair below.

Jayson Werth

The Worst Hairstyles In MLB History

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Worst Hairstyles in MLB History (with Photos)

Brandon Oliver

The Best and Worst of the NHL

Distinguishing Features

To play hockey at the highest levels, you have to leave everything on the ice, including your heart, soul, and teeth. Lots of teeth.&nbsp;Some of the league&#39;s brightest stars and biggest personalities have spent many an hour in the dental chair in an effort to reverse the damage done by pucks bouncing off their faces. Other players never bothered to replace them, wearing their missing chompers like a badge of honor. Sometimes you get new teeth only to have them knocked out again by an elbow or flying stick.

One thing these players have in common is that they don&#39;t seem to care if they have missing teeth, because they continue to smile as if they were models in the dental industry. These are NHL players past and present who gave their pearly whites in the name of victory on the ice.

Alex Burrows

The Best (Toothless) Smiles in the NHL

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Best (Toothless) Smiles in the NHL | Hockey Players with No Teeth

Football

The NFL is a statement league in so many ways. From tattoos, to touchdown celebrations, to extreme hair styles, the NFL has it all when it comes to making a style statement. Despite wearing helmets, NFL players have always managed to have their hair become a part of their personal story, but not always in a good way. These athletes with bad hair will go down in history as the football players who took to the gridiron with some of the worst hairstyles in all of sports.From Johnny Unitas and his legendary buzz cut, to Tom Brady's Bieber haircut, and the Pacific Islanders in the league today who wear their extremely thick and long hair with pride, bad hairstyles have carved out a place in the history of the NFL.&nbsp;Like with any sport, there are some players with great hair and some players who were not so blessed. And then there is always that the group of players who have great hair, but chose to make some very questionable decisions with it, whether turning to dyes, horrible designs, or ragged looks.The number of awful hairstyles to choose from throughout the history of the National Football League is actually quite remarkable and most of these unfortunate styles cannot be hidden by simply wearing a helmet. While hair might tell a story for some of the players, it doesn’t always work out, and the results are often the worst hairstyles in all of professional football.

The Absolute Worst Hairstyles in NFL History

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Worst Hair in NFL History: Football Players with Horrible Hairstyles

The best kinds of fails are the kinds you have to wear around on your physical person for all the rest of your days. 

Ink Disasters

Lists to get you through all the long, boring, miserable, non-football hours until kickoff.

Are You Ready for Some NFL?

Tattoos

The NFL has always been known as a league where players can display their personalities in a number of different ways. Tattoos have become more prominent across the league (and in sports in general) in its more recent history, though not all football stars have made smart ink choices. Tattoos have stories behind them and it is often a way to get a glimpse inside the mind of the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-famous-athletes-right-now/celebrity-lists?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">most popular athletes</a> on the field each Sunday. These football players can make the catch, hit their blocks, and get their tackles, but when it comes to athlete tattoos, they've got the worst, and we have the tattoo photos to prove it.Unlike the NBA, football players have nearly their entire body covered with athletic-style body armor so it isn’t always easy to see the bad tattoos the players have inked on their skin. Of course, there are some amazing works of body art tatted on players across the NFL and some tattoos which hold a truly special meaning to the player who has them. But for the most part, these guys are responsible for some serious sports tattoo fails.From a big, beefy offensive lineman having “Mama’s Boy” tatted on his massive biceps to Jeremy Shockey’s nod to the great American bald eagle, the league is littered with tattoos that are questionable at best. So without further ado, it’s time to introduce the could-have-been-good, the bad and the ugly tattoos across the NFL.Here is a <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-nfl-players-from-california/ranker-nfl?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">list of NFL players</a> with bad tattoos and pictures of the ink which is widely considered to make up <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/tattoo-fails/ariel-kana?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">the worst tattoos</a> in the National Football League.

NFL Players with the Worst Tattoos

NFL Players with Bad Tattoos: Horrible Athlete Tattoo Pictures

Mockery

There are a lot of athletes with bad hair, and the world of hockey is no exception. Ice hockey is an incredibly tough game and needs players who are just crazy enough, especially at the highest level, that they come with some of the most unique personalities in sports. This individual style unfortunately extends to what they've got going on under the helmet - and from mullets, to crazy curls, and long, luscious locks, the hockey players here have the absolute worst hair in NHL hockey.Hockey players are courageous, reckless, wild and not afraid to show any of these characteristics. They are also not afraid of showing off their spectacular dental work, uniquely manicured facial hair, and the bad hairstyles of, well, about what you'd expect from pro hockey stars. Hair in the NHL always has been, and always will be, something to behold.On any given NHL game night, the arena will almost certainly feature a couple of spectacular mullets, some awful helmet hair, some questionable decisions and, generally speaking, the worst hairstyles in not only the NHL, but in the entire sporting landscape.Whether it's the all-time classic curly mullet of Jaromir Jagr or the unique styling of modern day stars like Patrick Kane and Drew Doughty, the National Hockey League is sure to produce some of the worst hairstyles in all of sports history.

The Worst Hairstyles in NHL History

Worst Hairstyles in NHL History: Hockey Players with Bad Hair

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Inside the NBA

There is no shortage of NBA players with tattoos, as the league is stocked with players who attempt to&nbsp;express themselves through their ink. Many athletes arguably sport beautiful&nbsp;tattoos and <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/celebrities-who-have-tribute-tattoos/ashley-reign" target="_blank">tribute ink</a>&nbsp;with special meaning behind them. Chris &quot;Birdman&quot; Andersen, J.R. Smith, and DeShawn Stevenson are just a few of the NBA players with ink from head to toe. However, some critics believe a high number of NBA stars - who can display parts of their bodies via their uniforms - boast&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/tattoo-fails/ariel-kana" target="_blank">tattoos that aren&#39;t well received</a>.

Some examples of the unfavored ink seen across the NBA include a morose <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/cool-90s-cartoon-tattoos/crystal-brackett" target="_blank">cartoon character</a>, Abraham Lincoln&#39;s face, misspelled words, and a plethora of tattoos that were lost in translation. &quot;Demon Bird Mothballs&quot; or &quot;Man who Sells Coffins&quot;&nbsp; are just a couple of the poorly conceived Chinese character tattoo ideas dreamed up by some of the NBA&#39;s stars. It&#39;s safe to say that it&#39;s best to do a little research before putting symbols from another culture permanently on your body.

So which of these basketball players has the worst tattoos in the NBA?

NBA Players with the Worst Tattoos

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NBA Players with Bad Tattoos: Horrible Athlete Tattoo Art

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When you combine trash talk and the physical nature and high emotions of an NBA game, things can sometimes get out of control. The NBA has seen hundreds&nbsp;one-on-one fights through its many years of basketball history, but it is the all out brawls among teams, players, coaches, and sometimes even fans, that remain etched in our collective sports memories.&nbsp;There have been instances where a fan has hit a player in the face with a cup of beer, ongoing feuds between players and teams, and healthy rivalries that blossomed into perpetual battles royale.

During the 1980s and 1990s the NBA was used to seeing scuffles breakout on a nightly basis with teams like the rugged New York Knicks, the &quot;Bad Boy&quot; Detroit Pistons, the Chicago Bulls, the Indiana Pacers, the Miami Heat, and the Boston Celtics all regularly contributing to the mayhem. All out brawls became commonplace in the NBA during the final quarter of the 20th century and they weren&#39;t always broken up in a timely fashion.

Things were so tense and physical during the NBA&#39;s glory years that fouls that you&#39;d think would easily get a player ejected and suspended, were nothing more than a personal foul. Remember when Celtic Kevin McHale dropped a wicked hard clothesline on the Laker Kurt Rambis? It nearly caused a bi-coastal war among the NBA&#39;s two most storied franchises and officials called nothing more than a personal foul on McHale.

One of the most memorable&nbsp;major brawls in NBA history was, of course, when the Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers came together in what became known as &quot;The Malice in the Palace.&quot; There have been many scuffles in the NBA but these are perhaps the biggest basketball&nbsp;brawls and fights of all time. Check out these fights, then head over and check out the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/wildest-nba-fights-2019-2020/pedro-cerrano" target="_blank">craziest NBA brawls of the 2019-20 season</a>.

The Biggest Basketball Brawls and Fights in NBA History

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Biggest Basketball Brawls and Fights in NBA History

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The NBA Slam Dunk Contest has given fans amazing battles between the best dunkers in professional basketball and breathtaking performances by some all-time greats. Based on their performances during NBA All-Star weekend, and more importantly, throwing down ferocious dunks in the midst of an NBA game, the following players and athletes have established themselves as the best ever when it comes to slam dunks.

From modern greats like Lebron James and Blake Griffin who have some seriously great dunking games, to past all star NBA dunkers like Michael Jordan, Clyde Drexler, and Julius Erving, these dudes can all dunk like few others.

Who are the best dunkers in NBA history? Click through the list, and vote up all of the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/top-10-current-nba-players?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">pro basketball players</a> who you think are the best slam dunkers. Then head over and check out the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/nba-dunk-contest-winners-all-time/ranker-nba" target="_blank">wildest NBA Dunk Contest champions</a>&nbsp;and the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-nba-dunks-2019-2020/pedro-cerrano" target="_blank">best dunks of the 2019 NBA season</a>.

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