Nobody Told Me Louisville Has A Kid On The Team Who Rocks A Full Blown Bane Mask
Jacob Kupferman. Getty Images.You'll have to excuse me here, but I'm not much of what you'd call a collegiate hoop aficionado. I'm the type of guy who might accidentally watch 3 or 4 games throughout the regular season just if it's on at the bar. So if every diehard college basketball fan knows that Louisville's James Scott has been wearing a mask forever and I'm just late to the party, I apologize.
But also, that's not my fault. Because when a kid is out on the court rocking THIS mask?
Well I feel like everyone should have been making a bigger deal out of this. Like I know that one guy from Wofford shoots his free throws granny style. This should have gotten that same treatment.
It's unquestionably the most bad ass look to ever show up on a basketball court. Also, even as the biggest "hockey players are the toughest athletes in the world and basketball players are all a bunch of pussies" guy out there, I have to admit that James Scott is tough as nails. He was born to be a hockey player, but it turns out he was just better at basketball. Dude got his face crushed, his front teeth knocked out, and he's still out there playing. That's a hockey player if I've ever seen on.
In fact, I'd love to see this look start to make its way into hockey. Usually when guys end up with facial injuries in hockey, they just throw the bubble on their helmet. Stylistically, it's a great look. But it lacks any sort of additional intimidation factor in the same way this mask does. We've seen basketball players wear face masks before, but it's always that goofy phantom of the opera mask. This one is the mask of a deranged lunatic. I sure as shit wouldn't want to go up for a rebound against a guy who looks like that.