I've always found it odd and somewhat pathetic that nearly all KU fans wear hideously ill-fitting KU gear while visiting landmarks after selling the old family truck (or whatever) to finance the trip...as if some 14 year-old boy in San Francisco might google KU after seeing Cindy McLarge (or whatever) wearing crimson and blue Hammer pants and a Keith Langford jersey on the Golden Gate Bridge. This story kind of pulls it all together for me. A real eye-opener. Financial instability and delusions of grandeur make for a particularly volatile crocktail, friends. Please think of your KU-grad friends before having your assistants take your old belongings to Goodwill.
Just wanted to sort of confirm this general observation with another anecdote. I visited Pike Place Market in Seattle on Sunday and...like clockwork...there was some wannabe sports car (new Kia model, maybe?) with a GIANT effing jayhawk in the back window. I cac you not. It was the size of Mark Mangino's torso. Would be more to-the-point if the KU bookstore were to sell "I-can-afford-the-price-of-admission-at-and-am-able-to travel-to-landmarks-despite-my-cacty-KU-education" window stickers, maybe. I probably laughed for seven and a half or eight minutes after I saw it. I'm sure that the fellow driving it was wearing an ill-fitting, red/yellow/blue sweatsuit/warmup ensemble of some kind...probably while consuming some kind of conspicuously expensive alcoholic beverage in a tourist-laden bar after positioning himself within the establishment to maximize visibility of the "beam 'em hawks" creed scrawled in the olde weste font across his chest. Can you imagine such hilariously obvious displays of insecurity from Ohio State, Michigan, or KSU alumni? OMFG. LOLfest.
