It is admittedly long overdue, but given recent events it’s clearly about damn time we write some articles about hockey. In this, the first volume of hockey manliness, some of the manliest people to play one of the manliest positions the sporting world has to offer, the great goalies.
Jacques Plante
I’m sure many of you will know Jacques Plante as the first goalie to wear a mask. You’re all wrong. Plante did, however, design the first fiberglass goalie mask and the first to wear a fiberglass mask in the NHL. Now …

In one of my earliest articles I chose Tsutomu Yamaguchi as a more than deserving topic. Clearly any man who survives having two atomic bombs dropped on him in three days has earned the highest honours that the Man Institute can bestow. On January 4th 2010, the world lost one of it’s manliest men. The current life expectancy at birth in Japan is slightly over 88 years and the average number atomic blasts survived is zero. Yamaguchi died at the age of 93 despite decades of illness caused by radiation …

It seems that you never stop hearing about some new dangerous children’s toy being recalled and banned from the market. Every year the media goes off about how this toy lead to a broken arm or that toy is poisonous. Children used to play with BB guns, lawn darts, bows and arrows and all other kinds of potentially fatal objects for amusement. When the world is completely devoid of dangerous things for children to play with, we will truly see how important they were.
The human population is now approaching seven …

To this day many countries still have the explosive remnants of war (ERW) scattered about. Land mines and unexploded ordinance (UXO) from the first and second world wars as well as the Vietnam war pose a constant threat to people who live in those areas. Many people have different ways to deal with the problem. Some people start charities that don’t specify exactly where the money goes. Others give money to charities, not knowing exactly where the money goes. Some go the simple route and step on the mines then blow up. A guy …

Since the dawn of time, men have enjoyed watching other men get hurt. By the 20th century watching other men get hurt became popular enough that someone could become handsomely wealthy by putting their bodies on the line. Whether it be Evel Knievel jumping a motorcycle, Johnny Knoxville having a sledge hammer swung at his groin or that “slow” kid you gave five bucks to ride a shopping cart down a hill in middle school, men have always stepped up to these challenges; among the manliest of these men are Travis …

In the articles published prior to this, the correlation between manliness and facial hair has been put forth. The first article, Friendly Facial Hair and the Manly Man, various styles of beards and mustaches were exemplified which a brief description of their manly characteristics and uses. In part two, Some of the Manliest Facial Hair Ever Grown, several more styles of facial hair were presented along with the manly men who grew them. In this, part three of the series, we will continue to view examples of manly men with manly facial hair.
Bob “the Bear” Hite
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So here’s the first professional wrestler to be recognized on the Man Institute. We are fully aware that professional wrestling is staged. We know that Mick didn’t really fight anybody. It’s not like he’s Bas Rutten or John L. Sullivan. We’re not recognizing Foley for being a fighter, we’re recognizing him for being a crazed stuntman wrapped in flannel who, despite any injury he sustained, got back up and kept performing.
Foley first began wrestling (real wrestling) in high school. While in university, he attended a cage match featuring his favorite …

Here at the Man Institute, we have set the bar pretty high in terms of manliness. One must wonder, how manly can one man be? The answer: Jack Churchill. Churchill began his career in Burma, serving with the Manchester Regiment. In 1936, Churchill decided to leave the armed forces to work for a newspaper company, but after the invasion of Poland, Churchill knew he had a job to do. And in doing that job, he became the legendary idol of manliness that he is. As a Lieutenant-Colonel, he was quoted …