Dirt Off Your Shoulder

I’d like to douse the fire that is the raging flame of hatorade on my purchase at the italian flea market, Porta Portese but first some background.

 I’m what you would call a hat guy. I like to wear a hat on occasion. However not just any type of hat works. I like to wear baseball caps in the Franchise style in a XL size (I have a large melon). I won’t wear a fedora, cowboy hat or turban, because those are just silly. I will occasionally wear a trucker/tobacco hat but only backwards, never cocked to side or frontwards. Ever since Ashton Kutcher started rocking the trucker hat, their is a massive necessity by the people in my age group to establish their image with this style. You may see bands or popular products advertised on such hats but I try to shy away from these very popular hats and find ones that no one has seen before. Which brings us to our issue.

I bought in my opinion the sweetest Denver Broncos throwback trucker hat I have ever seen. It is blue billed with matching mesh, a white front with the 1968-1996 logo in front of teal and orange stripes with Denver Broncos text below. It is the culmination of everything that I know is good and just between hats and sports. It is a reflection of my favorite player John Elway who led the Broncos to two super bowl titles and is a Pro football hall of famer. It reminds me of watching Terrell “TD” Davis scoot into the endzone against the Packers in Superbowl XXXII. And there are those who would like to question my fanhood by asking me questions like “Hey Barrett, were you a fan when the Broncos were in AFL before the merger?” or “Hey Barrett, did you see when Tom Jackson played for the Broncos?” and I have to answer with no, mainly because that would’ve been impossible because it was before I was born. But I did wear my Elway jersey to football practice every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and even sometimes on Friday during Little League. And I did track down this hat.

However, for some reason there are those who would rather drop a couple ounces of hater-ade on my hat purchase than to give it the true respect that a hat like this deserves.  So to quote another famous modern philosopher, Jay-Z, “All the rappers be hatin, off the track that I’m makin. But all the hustlers they love it just to see one of us make it.” You’re going to have to decide for yourself what that means to you because to me it says “You wish you had a hat like this”.

Until next time, peace.

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