Visiting the Octogon....Advice welcome
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Be a goodwill ambassador, when you visit. If we win, act like Bill Self does going through the hand shake line. It is like going to France. If you show an interest in their culture, especially their basketball culture, they will be gracious and enjoy your visit and treat you well. Americans are good people to associate with, when they are not being surgically needled about their fears. The only time I have ever been mis- treated as a visiting fan was when I attended a baseball game with a Kansas City Royals fan at Anaheim Stadium and he insisted on waving an inflatable Royals bat in their faces I tend not to wear my colors in Enemy cribs, but I do not hide that I am a KU fan from those around me. They are invariably curious and responsive, when I show them a little bit of knowledge of their program and ask them for more. They especially like it, if I can find something positive to say about their coaches past, or present. I have even had opposing fans ask me why I am not as stuck up as other KU fans?
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@jaybate-1.0 it would be more fun to stay home then!
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Here is the answerā¦wear at t-shirt that says āDecades of Dominanceā they will probably think it refers to their football program and be nice to you when in reality it refers to KU basketball and its domination of KSU. Make it purpleā¦after all it is the combination of crimson and blue.
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@jaybate-1.0 Mention how much you admired Jack Hartman, Mike Evans, Chuckie Williams, Mitch Richmond, and Rolando Blackman. Also, how cool is it for KSU that two other Big 12 schools have KSU alums as coaches.
Every fan likes visitors who show they respect the host.
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@Fightsongwriter I went to a KU-KSU game a few years ago. Wear your Jayhawk gear. Talk to people around you about how good their team is. Obviously, donāt be a jerk. The fans are 90% Kansans and, by nature, polite. Manhattan is a fun place. Honestly, I have a hard time thinking of anything bad to say about my experience. We won, and that helped probably. LOL.
WVU fans on the other handā¦ go visit the countryside.
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Here is the bumpersticker you need on your old pickupā¦
All those animal husbands should be called out.
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K-State fans are so stupid - you will probably see a sign that says āYou arenāt in Kansas any moreāā¦
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Possible signage: Dorothyās slippers were Crimson not purple.
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@DanR I went to a KU-KSU game a LOOOOONG time ago in Manhattan. Donāt remember the year - probably early 90ās. Anyway, if memory serves me, K-Suck led pretty much the whole game and the barnyard boys in the stands were losing what little bit of their minds they had. KU clawed their way back into the game (a lot like a recent game of ours, where the climbing was against usā¦)
Anyway (remember, an old manās memory from 25 or so years ago) we were down by 2 with seconds to go, KU brings the ball up the court and Steve Woodberry buries a trey from way beyond the 3 pt line at the buzzer and we win by one.
Apparently I was the only KU fan in the stands that particular evening and I jumped out of my seat, fists clenched and arms raised in exuberance and let out a rather boisterous ROCK CHALK BABY!!
I was not the most popular guy in the coliseum at that moment. I canāt tell you how many death threats I received on my way out of there and in the parking lot. I distracted them with shiny new quarters and promises to buy them free passes to visit the sheep at Sunset Zoo.
Good times.
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@nuleafjhawk lmao you win my friend
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Neutral for sure. I made the mistake of wearing a KU hat to a KState football game. We lost the game and as I was walking through the parking lot, a drunk girl sitting on the tailgate of a pickup-not even kidding-started yelling profanities at the group I was with. I didnāt even remember I was wearing the hat. She followed us for about 50 yards yelling āfā KUā. Welcome to Manhattan.
But, Iām going to be honest here: At the OState football game, OState fans sat anywhere and everywhere in the stadium. It was irritating and annoying to me to be in reserved KU seating and be surrounded by orange. I like it best when all the opposing fans sit together in another (hopefully worse seats than mine) section and I can root against them with a little distance between us.
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@stoptheflop Wore my KU hat and shirt to a KU football game in Manhattan. I never actually made in past the parking lot though. Too much tailgate action with the people I came with. Afterwards we went to Aggieville- Jakeās Last Chance Saloon. The place was chalk full of morons, I heard a couple of the most racist conversations possible. I also had some really cute girl hang all over me for 3o minutes (because of my Jayhawk hat) before I could get rid of her. My wife, who was there with me, was not impressed.
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@dylans Wow, thatās a lot more fun than I had. I should have just gone straight to the bars.
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@Crimsonorblue22 said:
@tis4tim I think some posters lived there?
My issue is not with our esteemed posters. It is with Lubbock. Itās too bad, perhaps, that my one and only impression of the town is so tainted. Itās probably a lovely college town with many fine, hard-working, salt-of-the-earth types living there. I just had āone of those daysā during my stay that was so comically bad even hearing the name āLubbockā all these years later makes me cringe.
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@tis4tim maybe a book or movie
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" I didnāt even remember I was wearing the hat. She followed us for about 50 yards yelling āfā KUā. "
There is only one good way to handle those situationsā¦
Point at the jack arse and laugh hysterically. If she continues, laugh even harder, while pointing. Iāve backed down a lot of people doing this. You can watch their stature shrink every second you laugh. And I mean LAUGHā¦ laugh so hard you almost vomit. Lots of hysteria. Gut-wrenchingā¦
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@tis4tim I remember a dayā¦it wouldāve been in the winter months where they had forecast a dust storm. Outside, it looked like it was going to rainā¦it was dark, and overcast. And every 2 or 3 minutes, the loudest lightening you ever heard would go off. this went on all day. The whole day. It never rained a drop, but I will remember the weirdest weather day ever spent in my life in Lubbock, Tx. Iāve been through some really terrible dust storms, several tropical storms, 2 hurricanes, tons of tornadoes, but nothing compares with that day in lubbock.
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Iād hand out fliers for Farmersonly.com
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@KUSTEVE Lubbock doesnāt look like a typical American city. Unless it has built taller building in the last few years, the tallest building I saw was about 6 stories. Secondly, many of the houses are built much lower to the ground than Iāve ever seen. From the street, it looks like a six foot person could touch the roof. Lubbock just had a much different look and feel than any other US city Iāve visited.
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@stoptheflop Thatās odd. I lived there 8 years, and never experienced that. maybe the lack of tall buildingsā¦but when you move from a little town in Kansas to Lubbock, it was like moving to New York City for meā¦lol.
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@Crimsonorblue22 I donāt think they make Grape students take an IQ test for entrance, do they?
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@KUSTEVE said:
@Crimsonorblue22 I donāt think they make Grape students take an IQ test for entrance, do they?
No. There is no one there capable of grading them.
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@mayjay LOL.
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Higgins tonight too!
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@Fightsongwriter Good luck!!
KU better win.
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Thereās a sign that say bill self= art briles
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Dang, canāt catch a break. Pomeroy has him ranked as the #4 referee in the NCAA.
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Observations from my night in the Little Apple
- K-State fans are whiney, annoying, have an alarmingly low BB IQ, and have an inferiority complex the size of the Big Apple.
- That the Admin allows the students to chant F KU all night long shows an extreme lack of class and unconscionable hypocrisy.
- The crowd was far more excited that they played āSandstormā than any other aspect of the night which shows why they will never be in our league.
- The arena is nice but basic. The scoreboard is really nice and their sound system is amazingly good.
- There were more KU shirts than I expected.
- Their point guards are really bad.
- Higgins is the worst ref of all time and hell bent on engineering the outcome so the focus is on him. The bogus calls kept them in the game.
- Their bleachers are not flat but concaveā¦a butt catcher, as it were, and quite comfortable.
- Bruce Weber is an idiot for not giving Johnson a touch in the low post every possession. We had no one who could guard him and he only took 7 shots. They win if he attempts 12. Instead their bad guards heave up nervous, ill advised 3ās., and DJ is placed frequently out on the floor where he is soooo uncomfortable.
- My perfect road streak is intact and I would most certainly never go back. Damn they are annoying.
Next stop on the Questā¦Norman Invasion in 2018.
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@Fightsongwriter Thanks for the on-the-spot report. I think you captured it well.
I always think of this cartoon character when visioning the whiner:
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@Fightsongwriter did you start the Rock chalk chant? Could u tell some calls were bad? Anyone yell at you?
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Only arena where I did not hear the chant when we won. But we also bolted at the horn because my client had to be at work at 6:30 in KC.
The calls were blankly horrible and replayed on video.
I was by older folk and families so all was calm. But no one too friendly either.
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@Fightsongwriter I donāt know if youāre single or not, but some great pickup lines in Manhattan:
You donāt sweat much for a fat girl.
I feel drawn to you. It must be your incredible mass that creates such gravitational pull.
You are so sweet, it made your teeth rot.
You look like trash, may I take you out?
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@Fightsongwriter being a āsong writerā disappointed you didnāt start the chant
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@Crimsonorblue22 I wrote the lyrics to the KU fightsong so maybe I can get a free pass!
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