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Baseball cap owners take note:
The cloth-covered cardboard protrusion on your cap is known as a brim.
It was invented to keep the sun off of your face.
IF you turn the cap around and point the brim backwards, it will no longer serve any purpose except to make you look like an idiot.
IF you turn the cap part of the way around and point it at some random angle to your cranium, you will look even more like a moron.

HISTORICAL MOMENT:
Early in the history of the game, baseball caps became a required part the uniform of, well, baseball players. For most of the team, these caps served the dual purpose of making the players more identifiable and keeping them from being blinded by the sun when reaching for fly balls. Sadly, the brims were more of a problem than a benefit to one of the players, the catcher. Catchers found it impossible to wear the brim forward and put on their helmets and masks. And they didn’t often need to catch fly balls anyways, so they began turning their caps around while they were wearing their masks.

Some loyal fans saw the catchers doing this, and decided to emulate them out of respect. Then, horror of horrors, the fad caught on, and soon people that didn’t even LIKE baseball were not only wearing baseball caps, but wearing them in the least logical way possible. And another idiotic American fashion was born.

HISTORICAL MOMENT:
The practice of wearing one’s baseball cap either sideways or at another random angle represents the most upsetting combination known to popular culture, baseball and hip-hop. Taking their cue from the catcher-inspired backwards cap, hip-hop artists and their followers began wearing their caps sideways in an attempt to annoy the elder generation, in much the same way that men of the sixties chose to sport long hair, or men in the eighties began piercing one ear-showing their individuality through fads so popular they quickly became conformist. Now anywhere you go you can find young men with big, poofy vests or hockey jerseys, caps on at a ridiculous angle, huge (faux-)gold ornaments around their necks, pants dragging several feet behind them. Neat, isn’t it?

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