Lids (as the kids call them)

Like Spurrier, I'm a visor wearer. I wore ball caps backward up until a few years ago.

Right now I have too much hair to wear a cap. Even when I'm buzzed I need the biggest fitted hat available. And I bend the shit out of the bill.

I kind of miss wearing ball caps. Soon as I cut the hair I'll get this:

 

I wear either my Cincinnati Reds Diamond Collection hat, autographed by George Foster, my 1970's Padres or my 2012 Toronto Blue Jays alternate hat everywhere I go. Love my Reds hat...Foster hit it up about 10 years ago. So if you see some big clown walking around with a Reds hat autographed by George Foster...it is probably me.

 

The hardest "gimme" cap to find in the world. Mount Gay controls the supply and only gives out at their regatta's to participants.

 

My golf hat ...



My winter hat ...



Though mine has a small feather instead of a bow on the band. And it's 20 years old.

 

For such a hard hat to get, you think they would make it look...I dunno...better?

 

I'm really glad you explained that. I've never heard of Mount Gay Rum, and thought it said "run." That, plus the odd-shaped logo and the fact it's from Key West, had me thinking it was a hard-to-obtain "gimme" cap for an entirely different reason.

 

I bought a New Orleans Voodoo jersey on a trip to the city for $10. Still have it. But that's a different thread.

As far as hats, I tend to stick to one or two. Have a ballcap of my alma mater that gets swapped out every few years; one of the local juco that looks cool, but I'm afraid to wear it around town for professional reasons; a "yard hat" given to me by a local golf course; and a Panama Jack wide-brimmed hat I bought at a CVS on our honeymoon.
Haven't worn that last one in a while, but might need to. It always seems to start a conversation, since it looks a little goofy on me.

 

My work hat.

 

OUTING ALERT: Evil is either Sam Snead or Indiana Jones.

 

I could never take seriously a man who chose to wear a baseball cap just around and out in public for no reason. At a game? Meh, I can see it. If you're bald, and you NEED it, fine. But just putting one on to run to the store or to walk around or anything? No.

 

I golf like Indiana Jones.

The golf hat is a nod to Snead; the only sports interview that ever made me nervous.

The Jones hat is also my work hat - minus the press badge.

 

Is "I haven't showered yet and my bedhead is not sexy or cool looking" a good enough reason?