A shave and a haircut? A bet gone awry? It started as a joke: I'll shave next time you win, crew member Tom Giacchi told his driver, Carl Edwards. Well, 52 races later -- almost 17 months -- Giacchi got his 6-inch beard trimmed when Edwards convincingly won NASCAR's race at Michigan International Speedway Sunday. That's a long time to wait.
"It's been treacherous," ESPN reported Giacchi saying. "There's been a lot of stares. I'm a people person. I love hanging out with people, meeting new people. I like people to like me. I got the cold shoulder a couple times because of this weird-looking beard,
"At home a couple of times, I'd be in a Dairy Queen and Amish people would come in and they had huge beards also. I was like, 'Yeah, my brothers! I can work with them all day.' "
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- Steve Mawyer
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