A long while back LA Raiders caps/hats/beenies were all the rage over here in the Netherlands. I bet none of them knew what NFL was though so lots of people just buy them to look a certain way too.
Probably because of N.W.A.
A long while back LA Raiders caps/hats/beenies were all the rage over here in the Netherlands. I bet none of them knew what NFL was though so lots of people just buy them to look a certain way too.
They knew. It was a fashion connected to American rappers wearing Raiders gear. NWA in particular. I saw a guy wearing a Long Beach hat in Utrecht and struck up a conversation about it. As a near native Californian it was amusing to me. Then there was the guy I met on a train in NL who had played baseball at a college in Illinois and named his dog “Kirby Puckett.” Dutch folks are very connected to American pop culture. Much more so than most parts of Europe in my experience.