pink hat

plural pink hats

1. hobbiesA person who only follows a team because it has become fashionable.

   There's an old tale about a Rooter who was sitting next to a Pink Hat.

   2009, Andy Wasif, Red Sox University: Baseball's Foremost Institution of Higher Learning, →ISBN

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   Although other fans have waved at NESN cameras, the pink hat fan has been seen doing it more often and usually during important parts of the game.

   2010, Michael Macomber, The Red Sox and Philosophy: Green Monster Meditations, →ISBN

   MIRI: When did you start following the Sox? 2004? '07? SETH: I've always kind of followed them. MIRI: “Kind of?” Heh. Oh, yeah. You're a Pink Hat.

   2012, Gregory Crafts, Up All Night, →ISBN, page 61

   After much thought and research, she officially adopted the Red Sox as her baseball team and despite what critics of post-2004 fans say, she's no fair-weather pink hat.

   2013, Jon Chattman, Allie Tarantino, How the Red Sox Explain New England, →ISBN