Original sentence: College football coaching legend Paul "Bear" Bryant was frequently seen wearing a houndstooth or checkered patterned hat
Edited sentence: College football coach, Paul "Bear" Bryant (who never was able to ascend to the pinnacle of coaching, the NFL) was frequently seen wearing a plaid hat, yet somehow the Alabama fan base attributes houndstooth, and wears the pattern in unflattering ways, to the University of Alabama in a seemingly bizarre cult ritual unseen at educational institutions with a more traditional following of actual graduates of that institution