Joe Flacco, Dennis Pitta, and 5 Classic NFL Mustaches

Careful viewers of the Ravens-Niners game might have noticed that Joe Flacco and tight end Dennis Pitta are sporting some awful-looking mustaches.

Flacco explained post-game that he wanted the offense to create a distinctive look  for the strength run, but only Pitta joined him in growing a Fu Manchu. Awkward.

But now's not the time to talk about Flacco's leadership abilities—or lack thereof.

Instead, here are five great mustaches from NFL history.

Scott Player

The role model for Flacco and Pitta.

If one's going to grow something as ridiculous as a Fu Manchu, one needs to give the level of commitment that this one-time Cardinals and Browns punter gave.

The result is something so well-developed, distinctive and majestic that I can't even make fun of him for it.

It's one of the more masculine 'staches I've ever seen.

Joe Namath had something similar going at one point, but there aren't any pictures of it available, so Player gets the nod instead.

Jared Allen

He's taken his facial hair from clean-shaven to fully bearded and back again, but at one point it was something resembling a Fu Manchu, so he gets included here.

Actually not too over the top, very clean-looking.

Well done overall.

Mike Ditka

Obviously, you can't make an NFL mustache list without including Da Coach.

He's had the classic, simple tough-guy 'stache for decades—save for a brief period of clean-shavenness in '97—and it's still as perfectly manicured and distinctive as it was during his time with the Bears.

Jake Plummer

Before he started needling Tim Tebow from afar, Jake Plummer was a decent quarterback for the Broncos.

But his greatest legacy comes in the form of this head-shot, one of the more ridiculous pictures you'll ever see in your life.

The 'stache is solid, but combining it with the longish hair makes it look like this guy was pulled right out of 1975.

Last time I checked, Plummer was competing in amateur handball competitions somewhere, which is exactly what you'd imagine the goon in this picture would do in his free time

The Old Tampa Bay Bucs Pirate

Perhaps the least-intimidating pirate logo of all time, Bucco Bruce still had a decent mustache going.

He lives on through the occasional "throwback day" and lists like this.