Bear Bryant didn't wear houndstooth you putzes
This picture was the tipping point for me. I've seen bama fans deck anything and everything out in houndstooth over the last several years. Paying homage to tradition is one thing but it's moved on to idol worship. Which would even be somewhat understandable, if Bear Bryant actually wore houndstooth. I'm not the first person to address this, but I'd like to hear a reasonable answer. Every single picture of Bear Bryant online shows him wearing a hat, usually black and white plaid but sometimes other colors. Not once, anywhere on the internet can you find a clear picture of Bear Bryant wearing a houndstooth hat. They aren't out there. And in case you don't know the difference:
Houndstooth (which has jagged edges)
Bear Bryant wearing his usual black and white plaid hat
So please, anyone, tell me how this got warped into an obsession of houndstooth? And really to most college age bama fans, that's what it is right now, a worship of a pattern and not the Coach who died before they were born. So I'm begging anyone to find a picture of Bear Bryant wearing houndstooth and send it to me.
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http://www.headlinesports.net/images/081566.jpg
Then why was he wearing one in this pic? DUMBASS.
You can see my final thought on this situation in the comments of this Picture Me Rollin post
wow. i'm not a bama fan. but, get your facts straight. the actual hat and jacket hang in the bear bryant museum and are in fact, houndstooth. there are also multiple photos of him wearing the hat. dig deeper. you don't even have to dig that deep.
He did wear plaid ones occasionally, but his *TRADEMARK* hat was houndstooth...
SEE PICTURE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Bryant
OK. A little lesson in Scottish. Firstly, "Plaid" is an old scots word meaning, roughly, "blanket". Blankets were worn as clothing amoung poor hill people in the Scottish Highlands of long ago. The got the wool from sheep, and a blanket was easy to weave. Make one 10 feet long and you could wrap it all around you and keep you very warm, or leave it off here and there for cooling down as you got warmer. "Plaid" is NOT a pattern. So to say Bryant is wearing a plaid hat is wrong. He's wearing a hat, not a blanket. secondly, the pattern on plaids (remember, blankets) varied from clan to clan (tribe to tribe). This was called a "Tartan". Many clans, many tartans. It told people who you belonged to and who protected you. Thirdly, "Houndstooth" is a kind of tartan. A dark color and white (usually black and white). Its different from other checked patterns in that every other dark block is actually weaved at a diagonal with the light pattern. This is done for contrast and aesthetics. Thus, as you can plainly see (enlarge the photo you have of Bryant), his hat is clearly "Houndstooth". Roll Tide
um, yeah no you didn't look hard enough. http://www.redelephants.com/images/JoeAndBear.jpg
He always reminded me of Tom Landry. Probably the hat thing.
Wikipedia...? trustworthy source. A little lesson: if you are going to give someone a lesson on the word "plaid", you should include all the definitions not just the one you looked up on Wikipedia. The point is, if UA is all about the tradition behind houndstooth, why are they ignoring the other hat patterns?
Didn't use wikipedia I'm afraid, but thanks for checking it for me. Used my years of actually living in Scotland and listening to people who knew what they were talking about. Unlike some people who just talk out of their behinds.
http://www.lostlettermen.com/wp-content/uploads/Paul-Bear-Bryant.jpg
I'm not Scott so don't quote me on this, but I believe it is in fact a border tartan that appears on his hats. In his day, to differentiate between the two patterns was semantics and it never really mattered until enough time had passed that fans began to pay tribute (incorrectly)
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