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The national it's-past-time
Published: 3/23/2011 4:57 PM
Last Modified: 3/23/2011 5:15 PM

In case you haven’t heard, Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant and some of his pals had a run-in with security officers at a posh mall. It started because of a dispute over saggy britches.

I’m offended. I’m not offended for Bryant. I’m not offended for the security cops. I’m not offended for any sports or social reason. I’m offended because fashion fads run in cycles and the saggy pants trend was due to go away a long time ago.

All these things were bad ideas and they eventually went away:

Nehru jackets. Bell-bottom jeans. Skinny ties. Leisure suits. Plaid pants (check out old golf pictures from yesteryear if your eyeballs can stand it). Giant-collared shirts with flashy bling (circa the Festrunk Brothers from Saturday Night Live). Leg-warmers. Mullets. Goth garb (maybe it’s still around and I never see it because those folks are in their pretend-to-be-Dracula coffins during daylight hours). At the risk of insulting an older generation, I’ll even throw poodle skirts and top hats into the mix.

Sagging, in my scant research of the subject, started in the late 1980s or early 1990s. And, in 2011, it’s still around.

It’s natural for kids to wear weird stuff as they go throw their rebellion years or transition-to-adulthood years.

But all things eventually get replaced by whatever comes next. (You're on the clock, Justin Bieber). It’s overdue for sagging -- no one wants to see your buttocks -- to go the way of parachute pants.

If you’re a pro athlete and you’re perpetuating the myth that sagging is a cool look, you’re not just five minutes ago. You’re two decades ago. It's time to turn in your sag (and I don't mean Screen Actors Guild) card.

In one of his early comedy albums, Bill Cosby did a routine about how some kids tried to act tough by wearing their pants backwards.

Actually, backward pants would be an improvement over sagging. If kids really want to rebel, stick it to the man by wearing poodle skirts and top hats. See if a mall has the guts to ban that.



Reader Comments 3 Total
Hedged (last year)
Dez will do anything for attention these days. I truly hope nobody idolizes him after hearing his attempt to speak English (his natural language).
Ignatz (last year)
He is extremely immature and behaving like a 13 year old with his butt hanging out at the mall shows that this young millionaire is hanging with the wrong crowd. His stupidity will get him into greater trouble, throwing away a chance to make some very good money.
dantheman (last year)
He was a punk trying to style himself in the fashion of T.O. when he was at OSU. Now he is still that same punk only richer with typical pro athelete arrogance. The saggy drawers thing is just his sad attempt at trying to look cool to the other gangsta wannabee's that hang on him and admire him. I guess he figures those guys are his entourage?

And whats up with the parking in the fire lane at the mall? That old "look at me, im special" show was worn out decades ago! And cutting in line at an Apple Iphone store! Yeah, there you go Dez, that's world class all the way!

His understudy that is currently at OSU is looking up to Dez as a mentor and want's to be just like him. Yet Dez has already filled him full of booze and sent him on his way to get DUI on the return trip from a Dallas Game. World class guy that Dez!
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