You’ve heard about bad hair days? Well, your worst bad hair day is peanuts compared what Rick Vaive has had to go through. Thanks to this little doozy of a card, poor Rick has had to live with this bad hair day for the last forty years. The worst part of it is that it’s not even his own hair, and yet he probably gets asked on an almost weekly basis to sign this monstrosity, so he gets to look at that sickly-looking cat on his head over and over again. This card makes me wonder: if O-Pee-Chee felt the need to airbrush this coiffe over his real hair, what the hell did Rick’s head really look like? Did he have some sort of Ronald McDonald hairdo? Was he bald with a big Gorbachev splotch on his cranium? Was he the original inspiration for Boris Johnston’s blond hair explosion or that thing on top of Carrot Top’s melon?

Wait a minute… I think I’ve figured this thing out. Let’s see if you can.

Before Rick played in Toronto he was a hot-shot Vancouver Canucks prospect who suited up 47 times for the West Coasters, as was customary with a mid-season trade, O-Pee-Chee broke out the Crayolas and got creative because God forbid they put him in the uniform of the team he played with before and just wrote “Now with Leafs” at the bottom of the card.

This is what he looked like in a ‘Nucks uniform, in case you’re wondering…

Yup. Now I get it. Sorry there, O-Pee-Chee, you had to do what you had to do.