Hat #7 - The Orange Version of my Favorite Hat Ever

This hat is pretty much identical to my favorite hat of all time, except that it is BRIGHT orange. I don't wear it a ton, but it is very comfortable, and very orange, which is a plus in my world, because I love the color orange. It's a very solid hat, and I do love it quite a bit.

Hat #6 - Retro Broncos (Brown and Yellow)

I dig this hat for the simple reason that it is based off the same time period as the inspiration for my blog... www.verticallystripedsocks.com

Plus, it's just a pretty cool hat, I dig the ugly Brown and Yellow, the cool AFL logo on the back, and the first Broncos logo was pretty cool. This hat has it's drawbacks in that it is white, and that it is a stretchfit hat that is a little tiny bit tight, but I've been wearing this hat whenever I wear brown lately, which is maybe once every week or two. I dig this hat, and will definitely be wearing it when the Broncos play the Patriots and I go to the game. (They're wearing their retro unis that day, you see!)

Hat #5 - My favorite Rockies hat

This hat has been heavy in the rotation lately, It's my favorite Rockies hat. I love the full logo on the back of the hat, the big purple EST 93 on the side, and the slightly frayed look of the front logo. Plus, it's one of the most comfortable hats in my collection. It generally gets it's most use in the summer during baseball season, which makes sense. Solid hat, and definitely the best in the baseball genre for me.

Hat #4 - My Other Retro Broncos Hat

I swear, I have other hats besides Broncos hats, and I'll even post one of them sometime soon, but I thought I'd post the hat I have featuring the goofy Broncos logo from the early 60's. This hat always garners compliments when I wear it, but it's not as comfortable or awesome as the orange one, so it is less often put into the rotation. I like how it looks, but it can leave a bit of a mark on the head, as it is the stretch fit variety which I have a love hate relationship with. I do still pull it out for special events when nothing but a royal blue AFL hat will do, though. Not that those events come up all that often, but still...

Hat #3 - The Floppy Llamas

What are the Floppy Llamas? Why, my Fantasy Football team, of course. You might wonder what kind of a dork develops a logo for his fantasy football team, and then has merchandise made up to display this logo. Now you now. A dork like me! Yup, the Floppy Llamas have been doing battle in the Denver World League of Fantasy Football for the past three years. This past season we made it all the way to the championship game of the league but fell just short of a championship. 2009 is the year of the Llama, though. I can feel a championship coming!

I like this hat due to the sentimental connection to my fantasy football team. Truth be told it is a little bit tight on my head, and I generally don't wear it a whole lot, but I do like it because it testifies to the mighty power of the Floppy Llamas. I had this hat made up on the Lids create your own hat website, and I really dig it.

Hat #2 - My Second Favorite Hat Ever!

Okay, so this is my second favorite hat of all time. I'm a huge fan of the 1960's Broncos logo also the color orange and fitted hats. This hat combines all of those loves, plus it's awfully comfortable. I bought this hat in the summer of 2008 and it was a little bit too small and it's a stretch fit hat, so that can spell trouble, but it stretched out perfectly and now fits my head like a glove without leaving lines on my head, a problem that is all too common for stretch fit hats.

Another reason I dig this hat is because unless you are somewhat knowledgeable about football, there is an excellent chance that you have no idea that this is a Denver Broncos hat. If you do know football, you realize that this is a Broncos hat, which makes it a double win. Because if you don't like football, you may think that this is just a weird hat with a goofy looking horse on it, and if you DO like football, you can this that this hat is just flat out AWESOME, which it is, of course.

I like just about everything about this hat from it's fit, to it's color, to the logo, to the little '60 that is on the corner of the hat to signify the Broncos franchise origin in 1960. This is a beautiful hat, and it makes me happy to put it on my head. I wear it a ton, which is something I can't say about all my hats, as you will see if you keep following this blog. This hat is currently in heavy rotation, as I wear it three or four days a week.

Hat #1 - My Favorite Hat Ever!

Welcome to Hatish. If it seems like that name is a cross between the words Hat and Fetish, well congratulations! You get the general idea, pretty darn well. I'm a hat guy, to a ridiculous degree. I pretty much have a problem. Do you remember how Imelda Marcos was discovered to have had like ten million pairs of shoes when they raided her compound? Yeah, I'm the Imelda Marcos of hats. Plus I like blogging, so I thought I'd combine my passions into one gigantic nerdy soup. You've discovered my nerdery, I welcome you to it.

This hat has pretty much taken over the number one spot in my heart for hats. It's my favorite hat ever. I wore it when both of my kiddos were born. I wore it to the 2005 AFC Championship game. (Okay, not a great time, but I was wearing the hat at the time. I wore it when the Broncos beat the Patriots in the playoffs at Invesco. (A better time!) I've worn it so much that I've had to wash it several times. It has kept it's shape, and it's simple, and it's beautiful, and it's comfortable, and it's definitely my favorite hat ever. I love this hat. I've worn it so much, that I try not to wear it that much anymore, because I don't want to wear it out. It's fantastic.