The chronological history of towels in KSU football is as follows:
1993: Young, savvy Bill Snyder enters the towel game, using McDonald's as a marketing partner, introducing the McGrowl Towel. A collector's item to this day, to be sure. It is still rumored that the legendary Chad May actually wore a McGrowl towel tucked into his uniform pants, using it to wipe the sweat from his hands in between hitting Lockett and Coleman on deep out routes at Wagner Field. Some say that the McGrowl Towel was actually instrumental to getting the Greatest Turnaround in College Football started.
1998: Great teams deserve their own towel, and, in honor of KSU's greatest team, the Rally Towel was put into circulation. Eerily, these were put out simultaneously with the publishing of the "Countdown to the Nebraska Game" in the Collegian -- before KSU had even taken the field. A good towel, however, these are forever tainted by the sweat of one Sirr Parker
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2007: The introduction of the Power Towl by the bold manchild Ron Prince. A new, innovative strategy is employed: these are purple rather than the traditional white employed around the nation. Do they blend in with the crowd? Should the fans wear white instead to make the P. Towel stand out? So many questions left unanswered, and fans are left to guess if Willie playing the guitar with his teeth really was a secret message that was meant to be decoded.
Of note, KSU has only had games with 30+ pass completions in "Towel Seasons".
The towel lore continues...
