the hat that all you raiders fans come to know and love was indy's spare hat. much of us who are fedora afici....officia....afishian....scandinavia, i think i'll need your help again.....we have that spare hat that we throw on when we want to work outside or to play fetch with the dog with (the hat, not a stick)....the one that you won't mind sitting on or throwing around when you get to the park and forget the frisbee....you know the one!
yes this hat was his spare. a hat that he didn't care jumping into a peruvian river with...a hat that he just threw in his suitcase and crushed along with his other gear....and a hat that he just left on the bantu wind because he didn't care about it.
why is that? because it had no taper which indy prefers. he prefers it so much that he turned a chinese boy into a hatblock in india to ensure that his TOD hat dried nicely and didn't ruin the nice taper that was in his hat, he risked his arm in the TOD spike room to get it back and the only time he didn't wear it was when he was drugged out of his mind from the blood of kali. a year later he had to go to peru and he thought, "no way am i going to take my nice tapered hat on this dangerous trip, i'm gonna take my spare stove pipe hat becuase i don't care what i look like when i'm abroad.
other incidents to prove my point....indy wanted to look his best to meet his dad so he put on a tie and his small blocked hj hat (not the raiders hat). and near the end of LC when the hat fell off prior to a near death plummit in the german tank, indy prayed to god to get his nicely tapered hat back and so mr. almighty abliged and blew it back to him....if it were the raiders hat, god would have made sure it burnt up with vogel and the tank.
....and now, mr. michaelson i will take an extended stay under the plymouth for about a day or so......i've brought a thermos full of coffee and a cooler full of sandwhiches
p.s. - i love the raiders hat.....just ask fedora
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