Enjoy your leftovers with this fantastic Montgomery Biscuits cap
It’s the day after Thanksgiving, so it’s only reasonable that you would still have food on the brain. While you dig into your leftovers this Black Friday, why not do so with actual food on your head. Thanks to the Montgomery Biscuits, now you can!
The Biscuits, the Double-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays, announced the winner of the club’s Design a Hat Contest on Monday, and our mouths are watering just looking at it.
Yeah, that’s a beautifully layered flaky biscuit with a slab of butter peeking out of the middle. As BiscuitsBaseball.com notes, the cap resembles the old pillbox style throwback caps that were popular in the 1970s. We’re partial to the Pittsburgh Pirates’ version Dave Parker often sported back in the day.
The Biscuits’ caps were designed by Chicago-based artist Jesse Alkire, who was able to convince people to vote for his design by telling people it would be “baseball’s first hat design fresh baked to look like a fluffy biscuit.” That’s a slogan we can get behind.
Oddly enough, the caps will not be worn by the team during the season. They will be available in the team shop by the start of the season, and you can order them online at BiscuitsBaseball.com shortly. So, keep checking that site if you want one. We imagine they’ll sell like hotcakes … er … biscuits.
This, of course, is not the first time a minor-league club has featured a food item on their caps. Last season, the Fresno Grizzlies briefly rebranded as the Tacos, complete with new caps and jerseys. Don’t make us choose between the two, though. In this case, we fully support owning both.
With that said, we’ve always been partial to the Biscuits mascot. His name is Monty, and Wikipedia describes him as “an anthropomorphized buttermilk biscuit.” He’s a spike-wearing biscuit with hands, a tongue made out of butter and googly eyes. And he’s a constant reminder that minor-league baseball is the greatest.
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