PULLMAN — It’s four and half hours before kickoff Saturday against Arizona, and Craig Laprath is out of mustaches. Fans hoping to snatch up some faux facial hair will have to look elsewhere now.
Laprath is the store manager of Crimson & Gray, a Coug apparel shop about a mile off the Washington State campus. And like the rest of the nation, it seems he slept on quarterback Gardner Minshew, too.
“We mis-anticipated demand a little bit,” said Laprath, who said fake mustache orders include about 500 items. “We (the staff) were going to go and watch the game, and I planned on taking about 15 mustaches for a group photo, but … no.