Ex-Auburn Coach Pat Dye Finds His Pants

And now for a heartwarming story of a football coach, the plaid pants he left behind, and the woman who brought them back together again. Former Auburn coach Pat Dye had a pair of pants returned to him after 23 years of separation by a curious bottle-collector in Alabama. The woman saw the pants at the edge of the mud on a lake in Alabama, checked the wallet inside, and discovered credit cards and ID belonging to Patrick Fain Dye, a.k.a. Auburn's football coach of the 1980s who led the Tigers to both championships and probation in his illustrious career.

According to the Lake Martin edition of Lake Magazine, these were not normal pants. No, these pants reeked of greatness.

They weren't just any golf pants either. They were big-check green-and-blue Madras pants, like something you'd expect to find in Rodney Dangerfield's trailer on the set of Caddy Shack.

So when we walk around for the rest of the morning imagining Pat Dye, who used to patrol the sidelines wearing a pillbox-sized baseball hat and a tie with short sleeves, rocking out to Journey in the middle of the fairway, we'll know who to blame.
The greatest part of the story is that Dye has no memory of losing the pants at all. To be fair, on the numerous occasions when I've lost my pants, I usually don't remember it, either.

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