One of our favorite stories in recent memory leads right into a perfect lazy Wednesday of entertainment. First, the summary: former Auburn football coach Pat Dye was reunited with a pair of pants after about 20 years. And now, the whole story:

Shannon McDuffie made a surprising find on Lake Martin’s drought-expanded shoreline: Pat Dye’s long-lost, mud-caked pants and alligator leather wallet.

From two decades ago.

Eventually, McDuffie managed to track down the former Auburn football coach and College Football Hall of Famer and reunite him with his britches. Dye was at a loss to explain how he lost them in the first place.

“Well, I had a place in Still Waters in the early 80s. … I don’t remember losing it, but now listen, that was a long time ago,” Dye told the Lake Martin edition of “Lake Magazine,” which reported the discovery in a story published online Tuesday.

McDuffie spotted the green-and-blue Madras golf pants sticking out of the mud along Lake Martin in the Emerald Shores area near Still Waters last December, with the water down 15 feet below full pool.

Asked how he lost his pants, Dye responded: “Was there any money in there?”

But, he added, “I do remember those pants.”

“I don’t have any idea how I lost ’em,” he said, “but we can make up a good story.”

Naturally, we expect you will 1) make up some good stories, 2) explore other places in the lower 48 states in which one might also find a pair of Dye’s pants and 3) we don’t even want to know.

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