Friday Thoughts
Friday, January 11, 2008
Friday Thoughts is a light-hearted commentary.
I WAS AT a meeting this week and a K-state fan who I won’t name — but he is a county commissioner and owned a local hamburger restaurant with a name beginning with an M — was commenting that with KU’s incredible sports season, he might have to start rooting for the Jayhawks.
Upon hearing that, school superintendent and KU alum John Heim offered to pick him up and take him to a Rock Chalk Watch Party hosted by the KU Alumni Association on Feb. 2 at Bruff’s.
With the KU football team winning the Orange Bowl and the KU basketball team undefeated, I have to wonder if other over-the-top Powercat fans such as the Crafts, DeDonders, Bachmans, Millers, Stouts, Nelsons, Ashfords, Newlands, Symeses, Olmsteds, Schellers, Doudicans, Stubenhofers, Schoaps and others will want to trade in their purple for crimson and blue?
If so, perhaps the superintendent could have a couple of school buses go around town shuttling people to the KU booster event.
Christopher White Walker
Editor & Publisher
wanderer (anonymous) says...
Chris, I wouldn't hold your breath until you turn blue ... or even purple, for that matter. The real test will be after March, when the Jayhawks do their annual bow-out in the NCAA tournament and we find out who the fair-weather fans are. Rock choke ... I mean, chalk ...
January 11, 2008 at 2:40 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Joe_Strummer (anonymous) says...
The fact that you would suggest that KSU fans would stoop to being bandwaggoneers says a lot for the rank and file KU fan.
I agree wanderer. 3 things you can count on....death, taxes, and the Hawks choking in the 2nd round.
I congratulate the Jayhawks and their fans on a great football season, but I have to wonder where those fans were all these years. Funny how many previously non-existent "live-long fans" i've run across this past season.
January 11, 2008 at 4:45 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )