Who Leaves Their House In A Fedora And Gets Into A Fight?
Note: I wrote this blog before I realized Reags had already blogged about the video. But like... he didn't even mention the loose fedora. Or the Jaguars fan's shoes. Or the fact that they started their fight on a slippery floor mat. Or post the Jaguars lady. And quite frankly, I think mine is better. So I'm just gonna title my blog some dumb shit about a fedora to make it look like it might be different and submit it anyways. Apologies for the double blog.
Talk about an all-time bad visual. And we at Barstool Sports wouldn't dare throw around the phrase "all-time bad visual" lightly. But if being hockey sweatered with a belly like that by a man in a Travis Hunter jersey shirsey didn't secure that title, then following it up by immediately losing your pants in a separate fight with gravity surely did.
If you're in a fight, unless you literally kill the guy, it's hard to stamp a victory any better than by ending it with your opponent bending over to pull up his big & tall pants. I could argue that's the ideal end to a fight. If you actually knock your opponent out, you're liable to end up in jail. But if you give your opponent a casual beating in an obvious victory, then when he stands up he loses his pants, you've just served him the ultimate embarrassment without having to deal with the repercussions of a felony assault (probably).
You just knew the fight was going to be extra bumbling and embarrassing when they started it on that slippery floor mat. Terrible decision by both parties. If the fight wasn't already going to end up on the floor, once all four feet were on the mat, the mat was inevitably going to get somebody. Most likely the heaviest of the two fighters.
However, "low-key" my favorite little nugget of this fight is that by using context clues, it appears one of these men started the fight in a fedora.
I like to imagine one of them aggressively spiking their fedora on the ground in a, "Now I'm fucking serious" type of way. It was either that, or the whole thing started when one man knocked another man's fedora off his head. Either way, I bet the camera man knew to start filming the second that fedora hit the floor.
Fedora guys can't often be fight guys. That's gotta be kinda rare, right? Unless you're a pimp in the 70's on his way to teach a woman a lesson, nobody leaves the house in a fedora if they're planning to throw hands. The only example of fedora related violence I can find is this protestor in Egypt. And he's getting his ass kicked with his own fedora.
But here in the states, you can knock a fedora right off a man's head, and he's not going to do shit about it.
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Apparently fedora's are big in the protesting community. That's the main thing I learned from my "fedora fight" internet search. Who knew?
Gun to my head, I'd say the fedora must have belonged to the Saints fan. Both New Orleans and Jacksonville are in fedora country, but I'd definitely give New Orleans the edge in the fedora department. Because of the jazz music. Further more, I don't think you top off your outfit with a fedora if you have whatever the hell these are on your feet. I have zero evidence to point to when I say this, but these are Jacksonville Fighting Shoes if I've ever seen them.
Still, we can't be 100% sure who it belonged to. It's possible that I'm subliminally perpetuating a Jason Whitlock stereotype onto New Orleans fan.
When it comes to fan bases I wouldn't want to get into a fight with, Jacksonville Jaguars fans are up there. Eagles fans are obviously up there too. You see a lot of fights at Cowboys games. Los Angeles is a sneaky fight city. I'm not sure what the move to Las Vegas has done for Raiders fan violence. But Jacksonville can be a scary place, and any fan who's emotionally invested in the Jags has so many years of pent up frustration in them (from sucking at football), that I sure as hell wouldn't want to cross one.