Meet Denver Broncos tight end Greg Dulcich. The header image was taken of him at the NFL combine before he became a professional player, all six foot four inches and 245 pounds of him. This is him now:
Dulcich was the third tight end taken in the NFL draft, but he hurt his hamstring pretty badly during the Broncos offseason program and was placed on short-term injured reserve to start the season. He became available in week five, and in week six he did this in his first NFL game ever:
The hair is a bit of a calling card for Dulcich. Here he is meeting his coaches for the first time and everyone is dazzled by his mane.
I mean, it’s not accidental. Dulcich plays it up. Sometimes intentionally…
And sometimes in a live action, unscripted hair porn kind of way, (though now that I’ve written ‘hair porn’ I’m a little terrified about what that might actually be on the internet).
Is Dulcich a good football player? Time will tell. Considering this terrifying thing was taken as the first tight end overall.
If I was an NFL player, I’d rather be hanging out with the mild mannered Dulcich, who says things like “it’s all about the love” in this otherwise terribly boring interview.
But there’s something very magnetic about the California native who ended up walking on to the UCLA program. Maybe it’s the locks-and-stache combo, which seems to harken back to a bygone age of players like Mark Gastineau.
Maybe it’s the way he wears his socks, pulled all the way up as high as those fuckers will go.
Maybe it’s that, in the same way he pairs his hair with his ‘stache, he pairs his slides and hiked up socks with short shorts.
I’m not exactly sure what it is about Dulcich, but there’s a lot to like about him. Maybe it’s just the hair, in the same way that a furry tail somehow makes a squirrel more likeable than a rat. Either way, if he keeps hauling in touchdowns, he’s going to be in that sweet-ass Troy Polamalu Head and Shoulders money before you know it.
Best of luck this season to Dulcich!
