Curly W Cap Sightings (2014)

[Galah]

From DC Sports Bog

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2014/02/19/california-bar-doesnt-allow-nats-hats/

you keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

[Terpfan76]

From DC Sports Bog

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2014/02/19/california-bar-doesnt-allow-nats-hats/

you keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

I'm pretty certain it's to do with gangs. Red Nats hats are popular with Bloods and LA Dodger hats are popular with Latin gangs as well as Crips etc... Crips will also rock a Blue Nats hat.

[mitlen]

I'm pretty certain it's to do with gangs. Red Nats hats are popular with Bloods and LA Dodger hats are popular with Latin gangs as well as Crips etc... Crips will also rock a Blue Nats hat.

I don't even wanna know how you know that.   

[cmdterps44]

It's fairly known in Rap and Hip Hop.

[mitlen]

It's fairly known in Rap and Hip Hop.

Probably why I didn't know.       I figured Terp knew it through interrogation.     

[Dave301]

A ban on all baseball caps makes more sense. Plenty of other caps are worn by gangs there.

[Terpfan76]

I don't even wanna know how you know that.   

Let's just say that it's part of my job training.

[Terpfan76]

A ban on all baseball caps makes more sense. Plenty of other caps are worn by gangs there.

Pirates hats are a popular one as well. The P represents Piru which is the street where the Piru gang was started. After a Piru leader was shot and killed by the Crips, the Pirus and Brims formed the Blood Alliance aka Bloods.

Anywho, I spotted a Curly W hat in my closet.

[blue911]

I have a Pirates hat.

Figures

[mitlen]

Figures

<--------------------    Public Enemy fan.   

[Dave301]

Pirates hats are a popular one as well. The P represents Piru which is the street where the Piru gang was started. After a Piru leader was shot and killed by the Crips, the Pirus and Brims formed the Blood Alliance aka Bloods.

Anywho, I spotted a Curly W hat in my closet.

Phillies hats are popular with them too because of the red. Blood gangs in Watts wear the Nationals hats for the W. Watts is the roughest part of L.A. which is probably why it's being singled out.

[Terpfan76]

Phillies hats are popular with them too because of the red. Blood gangs in Watts wear the Nationals hats for the W. Watts is the roughest part of L.A. which is probably why it's being singled out.

I see we have someone else in the know. Pleased to meet you good sir.

[Hogie]

Was it not blatantly obvious to everyone that a team's hats, with big W's on them, and in red and blue, being banned in LA had everything to do with gang affiliations?

[CALSGR8]

Why should it be obvious?  I once worked for the Navy.  I got a cap for my brother with NAVY written in old English style.  He wouldn't wear it in Pasadena because it was the type of lettering Gangs used.  How is one supposed to know what's a gang symbol or not a gang symbol?  Is there a dictionary of gang culture?  Of course not!

[mitlen]

Why should it be obvious?  I once worked for the Navy.  I got a cap for my brother with NAVY written in old English style.  He wouldn't wear it in Pasadena because it was the type of lettering Gangs used.  How is one supposed to know what's a gang symbol or not a gang symbol?  Is there a dictionary of gang culture?  Of course not!

I guess we're not blatantly "cool".     

[Dave301]

Was it not blatantly obvious to everyone that a team's hats, with big W's on them, and in red and blue, being banned in LA had everything to do with gang affiliations?

I looked at the Instagram comments, and the first hundred people or so had no clue. I guess if you don't happen to know these things, despite it being a notorious issue, it just wouldn't enter your mind. There has been a lot of innocent people who became victims because they didn't know what they were wearing was also gang clothing.

But anyway, this is good info for Nats fans visiting L.A.

[HalfSmokes]

I assumed W stood for west coast, but someone in the comments said DC was death to crips- turns out they're right http://thepioneeronline.com/459/features/fitted-baseball-caps-a-way-to-show-gang-status/ (maybe, depending on the credit you give Cal State East Bay's paper). Funny I would have thought that was the safe one, then again the solution is probably to just not go to Watts

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Try wearing a Celtic or Rangers jersey in the wrong part of Glasgow or Belfast or wearing a green hat in Tel Aviv. 

[HalfSmokes]

Try wearing a Celtic or Rangers jersey in the wrong part of Glasgow or Belfast or wearing a green hat in Tel Aviv. 

that I knew. I wear orange on St. Patty's day- rarely does anyone get it

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

 

[Mr Clean]

How about a Nats hat with a propeller on top?

[WashingtonWizards23]

W for WestSide

[Galah]

Helps to be an old guy, I don't often get confused with gangsta.

Unless I'm wearing my brown coat

[GburgNatsFan]

I'd get it, @sshole.

that I knew. I wear orange on St. Patty's day- rarely does anyone get it

[OldChelsea]

If you're in Vilnius (Lithuania) between 17th-26th June and see someone with big sideburns in a Nats cap - that is, in all likelihood, yours truly. (Wore it the whole time I was in Riga, Latvia this past summer.)