Olympics - Part 24

 Joe Thornton & Brent Burns

Joe Thornton (at left), is a Canadian hockey player born in 1979.  He played for Canada in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, at which the Canadian hockey team won gold.

ESPN featured him and Brent Burns (at right), another Canadian hockey player, born in 1985, in their 2017 Body Issue.  Burns did not play in the Olympics.

Here they are again, but how did their beards get so long?

Groomers from ESPN brushed over 70 feet of synthetic hair in six different colors to make the fake beards for the Thornton and Burns photo shoot.

And this was the result.

Here's a nice rear view without the fake beards.  Burns is on the left and Thornton on the right.

And a bit of horseplay ensued.