Mahrez also won me over with the ridiculous stupid looking gloves. I love any player who wears stuff that makes hisself look like a trog.
When I was playing footbaw all the guys on my team were obsessed with LOOKING COOL in their uniforms my senior year, they had to have just the right gloves, the right number of sweatbands, custom trimmed etc. This obsession with accessorizing trickled down from my co-captain, who was such a fucking pretty boy that he wanted to mandate uniform standards on socks, sweatbands, underarmour undershirts, etc so that we would all look UNIFORM.
I lol'd so hard at them PLAYING DRESS UP, so the night before our first game I dug through all the old uniforms/pads until I found the perfect atrocious combination of gear.... I found a Bryan Cox style neck brace, a ridiculous 2 bar kicker face-mask that also had a bull ring on top? It must have been custom ordered! I also found full length arm protectors to look like even more of a dweeb... but the piece de resistance was the Chris Zorich combo (
@Irishman) of a cutoff mesh jersey and tall hip pads. I intentionally waited to put all my extra bling on and swap the Jersey until right before I was supposed to lead the charge out of the tunnel arm in arm with the captains. When I ran up to join them the poor dude almost cried.
I looked like a combination of Zorich and Bobby Boucher RAWR
Corch saw my jersey and was like "what the fuck is that? Also ur not gonna be #44, go put ur normal #74 back on, dumbass, you play right tackle." But I already had my shining moment leading the charge out of the tunnel. I think my sexually charged exposed midriff was too much for corch. Wore the jersey to practice everyday anyway.