Sammy Sosa hat: Here's that Darius reference in Atlanta's 'Teddy Perkins' episode
It had Ern and Alfred in hysterics
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The latest to get name-checked is Sammy Sosa's bleached skin, which was referenced in the episode 'Teddy Perkins' when Darius suggested Ern and Alfred Google 'sammy sosa hat' to describe what the creepy guy he was trying to buy a piano off of looked like.
The photo in question was taken from an ESPN interview with Major League Baseball star Sammy Sosa that aired in 2017.
It became a meme in part due to the pink shirt and fedora Sosa chose to wear for the sit-down, but mainly due to concerns that the player, a black man, had cosmetically-altered his skin's complexion due to body image issues.
“It’s a cream that I have, that I use to soften (my skin), but has bleached me some," he said in the interview when asked about his drastically different appearance, but side-by-side comparisons of how Sosa used to look suggested something more egregious than a cream had been used.
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