If I’m recognized for something at this level, it’s in all probability having numerous ideas about varied cultural ephemera. It must be apparent, then, that I Have Opinions in regards to the Pleased Gilmore baseball cap that Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce was noticed carrying at Coachella this weekend—whereas flanked by his girlfriend, a little-known musician by the identify of Taylor Swift, natch. Whereas Swift has been erring on the preppy facet for her current outings with Kelce, her paramour has been dabbling within the thrilling world of customized all-black Amiri and Collina Strada cargos, however let’s be actual: Kelce is a jock, albeit a particularly sweet-seeming and giant-friendly-bear-coded one, so the baseball cap was inevitable.

Let me be clear: I’m the furthest factor from anti-baseball cap. I love baseball caps, and have been impressed to combine them into my going-out put on ever since I noticed that one image of Meryl Streep carrying one with a corset whereas rehearsing The Taming of the Shrew in 1978. My mother’s classic Les Liaisons Dangereuses baseball cap is one in all my most treasured possessions, as is the “Samantha Jones PR” hat I as soon as misplaced at Disneyland and compelled my boyfriend to retrieve for me from the park lost-and-found. I merely consider that the character of the cap one wears can inform us quite a bit in regards to the soul of the wearer, so let’s get our Kremlinology on with Kelce’s hat, lets?

Admittedly, it’s a complicated time for baseball caps in menswear. Of late, the fellas have been inspired to put on hats bearing the identify of feminine authors, which sounds good in idea, however in actual life, if I meet a person carrying a hat that reads LYDIA DAVIS, I’m throwing up on him. (I really like Davis’s writing greater than I can specific, however that doesn’t imply I need to flip right into a strolling billboard for her work. Heed my phrases, single associates; a person who performatively wears a ZADIE SMITH baseball cap to fulfill you for a primary date will finally screw you over.) No, a hat that reads Pleased Gilmore isn’t essentially erudite, but it surely’s additionally…legit, in a means that the Brooklyn-based autofiction heads may by no means contact.

I haven’t seen Pleased Gilmore since I used to be a tween, however I’ve at hand it to Kelce: It’s absolute peak golden retriever-boyfriend habits to put on a hat emblazoned with the identify of a 1996 Adam Sandler film that holds a 62% rating on Rotten Tomatoes to a extremely publicized occasion within the California desert along with your extraordinarily well-known girlfriend. Not even a status Sandler film like Uncut Gems, however Pleased Gilmore! God bless this candy, merely accessorized man, and should angels gentle his path towards the Coachella VIP part.