Dre Kirkpatricks Hat

[SouthLink02 8]

For the record, no one cares who had the script A first and that was the most absurd display at a signing I have ever actually watched take place.

You obviously missed Reid's signing.

Yup. Without doubt the biggest douchebag spectacle for a recruit I have heard seen

[MDM4AU 332]

For the record, no one cares who had the script A first and that was the most absurd display at a signing I have ever actually watched take place.

You obviously missed Reid's signing.

I did and from your tone I'm glad.

[BoJtrueAUman 4]

OMG the whole wrapped hat wrapped hat thing how freakin lame is that. I don't mind the hat thing so much but like ya'll said it's rediculous to disrespect a school that was recruting you.

[BZ770 2]

I read the Deadspin link and they are going with the Braves. Some of the other posts are going for the Braves too. So decision is he's a moron and now a Homer.

[AU alum 2]

For the record, we had that script A before there was a baseball franchise in Atlanta.

Oh, so Atlanta copied Bama? Right.......

[AU alum 2]

Congrats Dre...you made deadspin.

http://deadspin.com/5147098/so-did-dre-kir...-atlanta-braves

There were some good comments on that article:

Artie Fufkin

1:22 PM on Thu Feb 5 2009

Bama hats have a fagotty little piece of flair on the top of their A.

Evgeni Merkin

1:23 PM on Thu Feb 5 2009

Apparently his future "Dre Day" will one day make MaMa's, Auntie's, GranMama's, and Cousin Larry's "Payday".

[ChrisH 135]

For the record, we had that script A before there was a baseball franchise in Atlanta.

Just sayin....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A

History

The letter A can be traced to a pictogram of an ox head in Egyptian hieroglyphs or the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet.

Circa 1600 B.C. the Phoenician alphabet's letter had a linear form that served as the basis for some later forms. Its name must have corresponded closely to the Hebrew aleph.

When the Ancient Greeks adopted the alphabet, they had no use for the glottal stop that the letter had denoted in Phoenician and other Semitic languages, so they used the sign for the vowel /a/, and kept its name with a minor change (alpha). In the earliest Greek inscriptions after the Greek Dark Ages, dating to the 8th century BC, the letter rests upon its side, but in the Greek alphabet of later times it generally resembles the modern capital letter, although many local varieties can be distinguished by the shortening of one leg, or by the angle at which the cross line is set.

The Etruscans brought the Greek alphabet to their civilization in the Italian Peninsula and left the letter unchanged. The Romans later adopted the Etruscan alphabet to write Latin, and the resulting letter was preserved in the modern Latin alphabet used to write many languages, including English.

The letter has two minuscule (lower-case) forms. The form used in most current handwriting, and in italic type, consists of a circle and vertical stroke, called Latin alpha or "script a". Most printed material uses a form consisting of a small loop with an arc over it (a). Both derive from the majuscule (capital) form. In Greek handwriting, it was common to join the left leg and horizontal stroke into a single loop, as demonstrated by the Uncial version shown. Many fonts then made the right leg vertical. In some of these, the serif that began the right leg stroke developed into an arc, resulting in the printed form, while in others it was dropped, resulting in the modern handwritten form

[Grumps 3,704]

I don't really blame the kids for wanting their "fifteen minutes of fame", but it is classless when they throw away the cap of a school that has been legitimately interested in them. They can celebrate their new school without dissing another school.

By the way, if a commitment is going to have a formal signing celebration, holding up your infant neice wearing an Auburn outfit is a pretty cool way to do it! I don't remember which our commits did that this year, but it was much classier than most you see.

[SouthLink02 8]

Where do they even come up with that? Why would someone think throwing a cap away is cool?

I dunno, just pick up the correct hat. It isn't funny or exciting to pick up a cap for 2-3 seconds and throw it away

Maybe I am Debby Downer....I can't stand it and that includes all the UGA guys who did it.