Oh, you want a SD story? Well, I've got an SD story for you. This is a multi-part episode that will take place between now and when I leave work at 2:45. Possible could be finished way before that. Depends on how productive I feel, so shut up.
Part 1
You don't really think of Manhattan, KS as being a Big XII warfare kind of affair. Sure, there were plenty of intense, groin-crushing battles fought during the vicious multi-year slugfest in front of the Ernie Barrett Statue, but most of these showdowns were the ambush / search-and-destroy sort of events, with EMAW slogging through armpit-deep mud, fighting off ambushes and Cornhusker wave attacks in miserable driving rainstorms, and crawling through the narrow concourses of BSFS laden with booby traps. You don't exactly picture a Blitzkrieg of Longhorn blasting through the Flint Hills of Central Kansas or anything, mostly because trying to drive a herd of Longhorn right into SD's fury is a logistical undertaking that borders on being Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!).
Perhaps that's why Steve Dave of the 1st Battalion, 69th EMAW Regiment holds the impressive distinction of being the only EMAW to receive the DOOM Sign of Honor for actions in combat during a football game. Although, as you might expect, the actions that led to Steve Dave receiving KSU's highest award for bravery in combat actually had very little to do with this ultra-over-the-top hardass actually sitting behind the reins of his herd of CU Buffalo he tamed, and a lot more with taking on an entire Nebraska Cornhusker offensive by himself armed with nothing more than a Katpak head and a complete lack of anything resembling fear or restraint.
To be continued.
