Bear Bryant Did Not Wear Houndstooth January 28, 2008
Posted by thegrillviper in Auburn, BCS, BCS B-List, Bama, Bama basketball, Bammer Math, Bammeroid, Beano Cook, Bear Bryant, Big East Football, Big Ten football, Big Twelve Football, Billy Donovan, Chris Fowler, ESPN, Tennessee Vols Basketball, tennessee Vols.trackback
Majors shakes Bear’s hand after pwning him. Note the plaid hat.
Alabama fans, you are idiots. Yes, I sincerely mean that. You have been parading around in houndstooth since I can remember…a tribute to the Bahr.
But the funny thing is…Paul Bryant didn’t even wear houndstooth, he wore regular plaid.
Exhibit A: Plaid 
Exhibit B: Houndstooth
There isn’t a college football program in America where one man has set the benchmark, and will continue to do so forever. Houndstooth or plaid, it was a pretty cool hat. Hey, he took care of business against us regularly.
Nice post.
The Houndstooth/Plaid Fedora is pretty cool…
Houndstooth/plaid everything else makes you look like a dumb redneck,
Man, well, I guess we should just forfeit all the games that Bear coached.
@2 Nah, their genes make them look like dumb rednecks.
I wore houndstooth
They should forfeit games that Logan Young purchased players for
Houndstooth = Jesus and his Crown of Thorns
Typical for Bammers, creating up their own perception of reality.
Bear wore plaid, like every other redneck in the T-town ghettos and they warp it into houndstooth the way 7 becomes 12 in the eyes of the Roids.
Hella good post grillviper
The bammers even had some gay uniforms with houndstooth trim on them last year or the year before.
They have been fucking up the entire time.
Plaid, fucking idiots. Plaid.
10, i remember those simple, elegant but very bold fashion statements as well. That was during Mike Shula’s last glorious campaign
I recall Mike Shula wore a heavy gold chain, tube sox and cursed frequently. For all of those things I just mentioned, I felt he was a perfect fit in T-Town
Oh yes, I often pick up my dog’s shit with Houndstooth
we kneed to keep supportin our crimson tide by continuin to bring our own toilet paper on a stick to the games. nothing says bama football and tradeeshun like brangin ar own toilet paper for us to use when and where we need it. aubies got that silly bird flyin round the stadyum but we got toilet paper on a stick!
you barners ain’t smart enough to brang your own toilit paper to the games on a mop handle. we not only do that, but we brang our own laundry detergent in case we fergit to use our toilit paper!
We got tradishun
Great post.
Hey guys, leave poor bama alone. They were back this year….In beautiful downtown Shrievport.
And if they keep inproving at this rapid pace, they should be sitting pretty at 8-5 this time next year.
Bama = back
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid.
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What was Bryant’s record against Tennessee again? Tennessee’s a great program, but it will always be the second greatest in the SEC. Second most bowl wins, second most bowl appearances, second most conference championships, second most national titles, etc. Whose first in all of those categories? The University of Alabama. Let the excuses begin, Big Orange fans. But please, do not stoop to Auburn’s level, because Tennessee is better than that. Much better.
There is just no reason alabama should be using houndstooth in their merchandise or uniforms… bear didnt even wear it?
That is nuts. What a bunch o fookin idiots
@22 All that past history shit gets you no where. Auburn’s level? It’s been good enough to park your teams ass for the past six years and to top it off Alabama has never beaten Auburn (Saint Bryant is spinning) in TUSCALOOSA. No matter if $aban takes them to Shreveport every year. No matter if they collapse against those rodents from Monroe but if $aban can’t beat Tubs his rich, transient ass is gone.
Past history shit gets you “no where”? First of all, its nowhere, not no where. Second, it gives you those enviable possessions of prestige, tradition, history, and the knowledge that the University of Alabama is one of the greatest college football programs of all time. And if such holdings are not envied, then blogs such as this one would be focused at lambasting recent winning programs like Georgia and LSU, instead of focusing so tirelessly on a “Shreveport-bound” program. If they get you nowhere, then quit obsessing over Alabama.
And that should read it’s, not its.
Shreveport is ritzy.
omg some of you idiots are so fucking stupid!!! bear bryant did wear houndstooth…. the style of houndstooth has changed just a little bit….( easier to depict) heres the link to one of his pics
http://www.autumnspectacle.com/Bama%20photos/Bear%20photo.JPG
Bro, I have worn women’s panties before, but people don’t go around saying I wear women’s panties. grillviper is right…the hat he is so famous for wearing isn’t houndstooth…in almost every picture of him he is in the plaid hat… not houndstooth.
In that picture Bear has a coat on that would lead you to believe he is in Antarctica. Has Bear been to the south pole? I don’t even know if it gets that cold in Alabama. The only thing I ever see people in Alabama wearing are tank tops.
@29, Bear discovered the South Pole
about the southpole comment, i guess alabama has never played outside of the state of alabama…..i guess BAMA has NEVER played Penn St. or Notre Dame or anybody up north… you are stupid Weezy think about what your saying b4 you say it… most of the hats he wore were indeed houndstooth…it is hard to tell it is a houndstooth from a distance, like the 1st picture in exhibit A above. That is a houndstooth hat AND suit… so he wore it alot more than ppl think..no he didnt wear it all the time but it was the majority thanks for your concern with alabama football whoever was the stupid one who wrote this article..know your info 1st and get a life
dude.
the first picture is obviously NOT houndstooth…
a google image search… there are no pictures of bear with anything but plaid hats on… there may be a few where he is actually wearing houndstooth… but that is not what he regularly rocked…TGV is 100% spot on. Go count your dick.
@25 Easy, easy Tom, you may rupture your colonic nerve. Please forgive me for the misspellings but I was trying to write in a language that $ could understand. I had no idee(sp) that a Bama stroker could study English grammer(sp) at Tuscaloosa. By the way doofuss, at one time or another they all catch hell from me, particularly when they call on that history shit which means nothing. Pull up what you have done lately and put that on the table. Not much to be said about LSU right now but their time will come when some dimwit like you starts crowing about National Championships the next time the Tigers show up in Shreveport. I know you are feeling a lot of pain but face it, that comes with being a Bammeroid.
weezy, ok this is dumb ass hell to fight about, but your wrong about that hat. The hat he is wearing in EX A is the exact same one as the link i posted earlier…it is the distance from it that makes it look plaid..example click this link below and look hat the hat at the top left ….it is houndstooth …the other bears in the distance have the same hat and it looks a little plaidish, but they are all houndstooth.. that is the hat he wore almost all the time
http://www.piperframing.com/pics/bearrings.jpg
@32 @34 Is there any possibility you two can stop that tireless shit. Nobody gives a rat’s ass whether that old goal post hugger wore plaid, houndstooth, paisley or gunnysack. That ol alkie was in the right place at the right time with the right material. This day and time he would have ended up at Millsaps like Mike (I didn’t bang my secretary) Dubose after losing to the Tubites six straight times.
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