Underwear Profile #6: Stuart Reardon

If you’ve never heard of Stuart Reardon, don’t worry.  He’s a professional rugger, or rugby player, and since rugby isn’t all that popular in the United States (it’s getting there), it’s not a major travesty if his name has never made it to your radar.

Reardon has been a busy little beaver since he hit the rugby leagues in 2000 at the ripe old age of 19.  He’s five-eleven, 93 kg, and has the most luscious hard of black curly hair I’ve ever seen.  (He tends to alternate between full-on hair and a buzz cut, and scruff and a beard … probably to make sure he keeps image fresh.  I’m full-on when it comes to hair – and Reardon needs to keep as much on his head and face as he can.  YUM.)  Since he’s been on-and-off in the league due to injuries, he’s been filling his spare time with modeling (most recently by being the face of an Australian underwear brand called The Navy Diver).  He’s not shy about being photographed, and he looks equally impressive in his shorts, in a suit, in a Roman centurion costume or in the buff, so he’s the picture-perfect “picture” for an underwear label – ripped to the nines, tattooed, tall … quite the bonus for underwear whores such as myself.  No matter the photo, no matter the theme: you can’t go wrong with Stuart Reardon in my book – he’s truly one of the most handsome men to walk the planet.  EVER.

Once more of Stuart Reardon and his rugby mates hit the Internet, hopefully more Americans will take up rugby as a pastime.  It’s a great sport to watch, you can’t help but build a more athletic physique as a consequence.  I’m told that unlike other team competition, it doesn’t require a specific body type to get started, so there’s a place for everyone on a rugby team.  Rugby is supposed to be a “hooligans’ sport played by gentlemen,” unlike American football, which is a “gentlemen’s sport played by hooligans.”  My Canadian friend Joel would agree with this statement, as he’s been an active rugger for years … but he also claims that his “drinking team has a rugby problem.”

Hhrrmm … I guess if you’re drinking in types like Stuart Reardon, alcoholism may not be such a bad thing since they inevitably end up in (or out of) their underwear.  Rugger up!