Rock Chalk!
Me, dad and the bros went to the KU-Fort Hays State basketball game tonight.
KU started with a 14-2 lead, so I thought we'd end up with seven times the points of Fort Hays State. 93-56 was the final. That isn't even double their points. Weak. How come no team ever ends up with seven times the points of their opponent when they start out at that pace? Something smells fishy, almost tuna-like.
I hadn't been to Allen Fieldhouse since college, so it was nice to be back. They've made some changes since the last time I went, so I need to bitch.
The new videoboard is nice, but I kind of miss the old Lite-Brite model.
KU started with a 14-2 lead, so I thought we'd end up with seven times the points of Fort Hays State. 93-56 was the final. That isn't even double their points. Weak. How come no team ever ends up with seven times the points of their opponent when they start out at that pace? Something smells fishy, almost tuna-like.
I hadn't been to Allen Fieldhouse since college, so it was nice to be back. They've made some changes since the last time I went, so I need to bitch.
The new videoboard is nice, but I kind of miss the old Lite-Brite model.
They're a bit slow with the replays and might be better off using the TV network feed.
With the new scoreboard came a new sound system. I worried they'd start underutilizing the band as a result. They did. Before announcing the opening lineup, they played some cheesy video with U2 playing in the background. No thanks.
The band is tiny compared to what it used to be. I bet they get 1/3 the number of seats they used to. Lew Perkin$ mu$t've $een an opportunity to $ell $ome more $eats (note the clever u$e of "$" in thi$ $entence, indicating Lew'$ lu$t for money$). Even though the Fieldhouse wasn't packed, it was often hard to hear the band from across the court. This was never the case before.
There were a couple of improvements. The student section has a new free throw distraction technique that I liked, and they hold the last note on the "oh oh oh oh" song. It sounds cooler this way.
The people in front of us annoyed me. These little brats got hot dogs, a $10 bucket of popcorn, Coke, and Dippin' Dots ice cream. That's some spoiled bullshit. We moved to a different section with less than 10 minutes left in the game. Luckily, some nice girl in snow boots warned us not to sit in the seats where someone puked.
We parked at the Lied Center, and got to walk across "Decapitation Bridge." There was a horrifying accident at this bridge where a K-State fan lost his head on the way to a football game. Thanks to the time change, it was too dark for me to point out the chalk outline of the fan's head, left behind by accident reconstruction. Last time I checked, there's a circle outline where the dude's head met the bridge, complete with calculations written inside (x+y=no more head attached to your torso).
With the new scoreboard came a new sound system. I worried they'd start underutilizing the band as a result. They did. Before announcing the opening lineup, they played some cheesy video with U2 playing in the background. No thanks.
The band is tiny compared to what it used to be. I bet they get 1/3 the number of seats they used to. Lew Perkin$ mu$t've $een an opportunity to $ell $ome more $eats (note the clever u$e of "$" in thi$ $entence, indicating Lew'$ lu$t for money$). Even though the Fieldhouse wasn't packed, it was often hard to hear the band from across the court. This was never the case before.
There were a couple of improvements. The student section has a new free throw distraction technique that I liked, and they hold the last note on the "oh oh oh oh" song. It sounds cooler this way.
The people in front of us annoyed me. These little brats got hot dogs, a $10 bucket of popcorn, Coke, and Dippin' Dots ice cream. That's some spoiled bullshit. We moved to a different section with less than 10 minutes left in the game. Luckily, some nice girl in snow boots warned us not to sit in the seats where someone puked.
We parked at the Lied Center, and got to walk across "Decapitation Bridge." There was a horrifying accident at this bridge where a K-State fan lost his head on the way to a football game. Thanks to the time change, it was too dark for me to point out the chalk outline of the fan's head, left behind by accident reconstruction. Last time I checked, there's a circle outline where the dude's head met the bridge, complete with calculations written inside (x+y=no more head attached to your torso).
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quite the blog . . . sharon and i were watching the game last night. what do you think of the "whoo" they put at the end of the rock chalk chant? i think the students at KU have managed to ruin the one unique thing that they had at the end of a basketball game.
as a non-KU student, i always hated the chant, but respected it, now i hate the chant and think it's kinda lame with the "whoo"
Some people always threw a little bit of a "whoo" at the end of the chant. Maybe it just got enhanced? I don't know. The PA announcer wouldn't STFU so I couldn't really follow the chant all that well.
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