I don’t wanna brag but I just scored myself a new hat.  This ain’t any old hat either. It kicks ass on several levels.

First of all, the looks. It’s a sharp red with white pinstripes. And secondly it has the logo of my favorite beer of the summer, Molson Canadian. What more could a fella ask for in a hat? Not much. But then I found out about the hat’s origins and it brought my new gear to legendary status immediately.

You see my cool new Molson hat was a gift from WBEE’s Billy Kidd. I saw it in his office looking all unused and whatnot and I said, ‘nice hat ya got there.’ Billy said he didn’t really want it and asked if I would like it. Score! Come to find out a few days later that nobody liked that hat much. In fact, before being welcomed on my greasy head it had gone through several brief stints of ownership. Before Billy got the hat it belonged to some Nashville record dude. He didn’t like the hat so he pawned it off on Billy.

Ever do that? Get something you hate and then give it to a friend just to be a jerk. Love doing that. Anyways, was I supposed to be the next in this chain of regifting? It turns out that the Nashville dude was on the receiving end of the same treatment. You see his friend had just played the same prank on him. Yup, there was one dissatisfied owner who started this whole game. His name was Toby Keith.

Toby was given this hat by a fan. He smiled and said ‘thank you’ but when the fan left he wanted no part of this hat. It’s Molson Canadian.  Toby ain’t wearing no Canadia hat. He’s All-American and whatnot, remember.

So the chain began. Fan to Toby to Record Guy to Billy to Spurr. Only the hat stops here. He may have only owned it for 30 seconds or so but he did establish ownership. Therefore I can officially say that I’m rocking Toby Keith’s old hat.

Check out the pic above to see me entertaining the Canadian troops abroad with a few Toby Keith covers.