The Slice column asked if, for instance, wearing a WSU shirt as a toddler puts a person on course to be a Coug for life.

My friend Johnny Erp said it doesn't always turn out that way.

Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s, he cherished his little Dodgers cap as a boy.

But then the team moved to California.

“And they were dead to me.”  

A friend who was in Manhattan recently noticed this hat on sale for $24.