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Title: How deep does your EMAW go?
Post by: The Big Train on January 24, 2014, 07:09:59 PM
I have always been curious about this, How deep does your EMAW go? I thought I had seen a long time ago a thread like this but couldn't find it. How many family members have been KSU Wild Wildcats? Are you the first in your family, or the 50th?

My grandpa started the tradition for me, even has his picture up in the Bram as he was a part of one of the 4 Final 4 teams. Both parents graduated from KSU. Several cousins were or still are students. Of course me and my brother will probably attend KSU.

How deep does your EMAW go?
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Post by: sunny_cat on January 24, 2014, 07:14:17 PM
2 grandparents, 2 parents, 5 aunts/uncles, 1 cousin, 2 siblings all former or current KSU Cats. :emawkid:
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Post by: sunny_cat on January 24, 2014, 07:14:45 PM
Oh, and me. :peek:
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Post by: Winters on January 24, 2014, 07:22:42 PM
1 Uncle/1Aunt. Going to count me as 1st generation tho.
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Post by: star seed 7 on January 24, 2014, 07:23:39 PM
3rd
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Post by: IPA4Me on January 24, 2014, 07:28:56 PM
One and only. Dad is a OSU Cowboy. Uncle is a Land Thief. My kids will probably be UK Wildcats.
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Post by: Shooter Jones on January 24, 2014, 07:37:28 PM
1st genny. Look forward to attending cats games with my 3rd generation grand children, tho. T-Shirt tightly tucked into my Levi's, sitting with my arms crossed, getting pissed at people standing in front of me. Gonna be great, guys.
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Post by: TheHamburglar on January 24, 2014, 07:49:52 PM
Grandfather is an emeritus professor.   :dunno:
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Post by: scottwildcat on January 24, 2014, 07:51:35 PM
Grandfather and Grandmother

Dad and his two brothers

Myself and my brother.
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Post by: sunny_cat on January 24, 2014, 07:53:00 PM
Grandfather and Grandmother

Dad and his two brothers

Myself and my brother.

:flush:
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Post by: Tobias on January 24, 2014, 07:53:50 PM
Gma was a townie who met gpa at cats u
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Post by: lopakman on January 24, 2014, 07:53:53 PM
First generation.  Both parents went to UCM, formerly known as CMSU, formerly known as CMSC, formerly known as CMSTC, formerly known as WTC, formerly known as State Normal School, District #2.   :D
Title: Re: How deep does your EMAW go?
Post by: sunny_cat on January 24, 2014, 07:55:30 PM
Jesus, my family owns the eff out of you losers. :cool:
Title: Re: How deep does your EMAW go?
Post by: The Big Train on January 24, 2014, 08:00:26 PM
Jesus, my family owns the eff out of you losers. :cool:

So which Final 4 team was your grandpa on?
Title: Re: How deep does your EMAW go?
Post by: sunny_cat on January 24, 2014, 08:01:17 PM
Jesus, my family owns the eff out of you losers. :cool:

So which Final 4 team was your grandpa on?

:surprised:
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Post by: lopakman on January 24, 2014, 08:03:19 PM
My EMAW runs deep, so deep So deep put her ass to sleep
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Post by: Paul Moscow on January 24, 2014, 08:04:20 PM
first in the family!!  :ksu:
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Post by: kso_FAN on January 24, 2014, 08:08:32 PM
My mom went to K-State for a couple semesters. Aunt graduated from K-State. That's about it.
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Post by: ChiComCat on January 24, 2014, 08:14:40 PM
1st Gen Alum but parents and gparents are all fans. 
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Post by: EMAWmeister on January 24, 2014, 08:19:35 PM
Parents and Grandparents are Iowa Hawkeyes.  Just my, my older sis and my brother.  The younger sis is a pigaggie  :dubious: :flush:
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Post by: steve dave on January 24, 2014, 08:20:48 PM
I started it all
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Post by: p1k3 on January 24, 2014, 08:23:35 PM
1st generation. My entire family are squawks
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Post by: ben ji on January 24, 2014, 08:26:23 PM
If it weren't for Kansas State University I wouldn't exist.

Parents met at the Derb, dad knew my mom liked pickles and offered his to her one day at lunch. :-)

2 years later he proposed to her at Vista Burger....Yup, vista burger.

Whats more EMAW than that?
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Post by: star seed 7 on January 24, 2014, 08:26:54 PM
If it weren't for Kansas State University I wouldn't exist.

Parents met at the Derb, dad knew my mom liked pickles and offered his to her one day at lunch. :-)

2 years later he proposed to her at Vista Burger....Yup, vista burger.

Whats more EMAW than that?

i love vista  :D
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Post by: slimz on January 24, 2014, 08:29:32 PM
Here's the title page from my great-grandfather's senior yearbook:

(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FPNkCgCM.jpg&hash=e955483f85206d9756c6f63b7f64c1eb93200457)
Title: Re: How deep does your EMAW go?
Post by: EMAWmeister on January 24, 2014, 08:34:56 PM
Here's the title page from my great-grandfather's yearbook:

(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FPNkCgCM.jpg&hash=e955483f85206d9756c6f63b7f64c1eb93200457)

 :sdeek:
Title: Re: How deep does your EMAW go?
Post by: yoga-like_abana on January 24, 2014, 08:40:45 PM
If it weren't for Kansas State University I wouldn't exist.

Parents met at the Derb, dad knew my mom liked pickles and offered his to her one day at lunch. :-)

2 years later he proposed to her at Vista Burger....Yup, vista burger.

Whats more EMAW than that?
:love:
that the emawrican dream!
Title: Re: How deep does your EMAW go?
Post by: star seed 7 on January 24, 2014, 08:42:39 PM
my mom and dad met on moro when she jumped on my dad's car to get his attention.  aggieville connections  :D
Title: Re: How deep does your EMAW go?
Post by: The Big Train on January 24, 2014, 08:46:31 PM
my mom and dad met on moro when she jumped on my dad's car to get his attention.  aggieville connections  :D

My parents met at bushwackers.
Title: Re: How deep does your EMAW go?
Post by: Bloodfart on January 24, 2014, 09:02:21 PM
Ever so slightly at present, but soon will come when a Bloodfart will shape the fortunes of EMAW.
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Post by: Tobias on January 24, 2014, 09:05:26 PM
that's pretty deep, slimz
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Post by: meow meow on January 24, 2014, 09:19:07 PM
1st gen, me, my brother, both sisters, and 21 first cousins, one uncle tho
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Post by: slobber on January 24, 2014, 09:34:11 PM
1st gen. 3 older siblings. Probably 15 first cousins and 15 nieces and nephews to date.


Gonna win 'em all!
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Post by: Asteriskhead on January 24, 2014, 09:36:42 PM
metalheadmom went here for a semester before she moved back home and started going to Washburn, which is where my parents met. Dad grew up in Alta Vista and has always been a Cat's fan. I'll be the first one to hold a degree from KSU Qatz Purple University.
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Post by: Cartierfor3 on January 24, 2014, 09:46:58 PM
Both my parents went to UMKC. My Grandpa went to Mizzou in the 1940s. I'm 1st Gen EMAW. However, my Dad became a tremendous KSU fan when I began school there. Mom too.
Title: Re: How deep does your EMAW go?
Post by: raquetcat on January 24, 2014, 10:29:28 PM
Dad has 3 degrees from EMAW, my mom got her master's there, one uncle, two brothers, one cousin, wife.

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Post by: AST on January 24, 2014, 10:32:59 PM
my brother, me
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Post by: 3gQ@T on January 24, 2014, 10:48:46 PM
My grandpa on my mom's side. Both parents. 12 aunts/uncles. 6 cousins and 1 sister. I'm rolling pretty deep.
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Post by: ksu_funny33 on January 24, 2014, 11:28:42 PM
4th generation...started by my great grandpa on mom's side. Everyone after pretty much followed suit
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Post by: tdaver on January 24, 2014, 11:44:41 PM
Great uncle, both parents, 2 siblings, 5 aunts/uncles, 3 cousins, 6 in-laws
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Post by: puniraptor on January 24, 2014, 11:52:15 PM
both my parents went to uw-madison.

my sister went to emaw

we lived near emaw


emaw for me.
Title: Re: How deep does your EMAW go?
Post by: Stevesie60 on January 25, 2014, 03:03:44 AM
My grandpa has been a season ticket holder in both sports since the mid-50's. He is good friends with Ernie Barrett and donates $10,000+ per year to a scholarship that he helped create, plus the athletic department donations. My parents both went to K-State, but didn't meet until they moved back to Topeka. They've been football season ticket holders since they met. Three of my uncles go to every football game, and the fourth lives in Texas but goes to 2-3 games a year. They all split two tickets to the basketball games.


I've posted it before, but fatty used to always make fun of me for being born with a silver spoon in my mouth when it came to being EMAW. He was definitely #team1stgeneration.
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Post by: star seed 7 on January 25, 2014, 03:25:45 AM
ohhhh, fancy.  i'm stevseie, i have silver sppoon in my ass and a gold fork in my butthole.  ohhh hoidy toidy.  ohhh, i'm so much better than everyone elsee look at me! such a fancy boy!!!!
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Post by: 'taterblast on January 25, 2014, 03:27:51 AM
like, three generations, but it's much more than that
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on January 25, 2014, 08:04:58 AM
4th generation, bitches! :gocho:
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Post by: Headinjun on January 25, 2014, 08:15:11 AM
Call me as along for the ride or whatever, but I didn't fall in love with the KSU Cats until about 97. Now I'm a first generation degree holder.
Title: Re: How deep does your EMAW go?
Post by: kso_FAN on January 25, 2014, 09:20:03 AM
When did you know you were emaw? Or your first emaw memory?

My initial diehard memories come from the Mitch Richmond teams. I remember losing several bets when KU beat us in the tournament in 88 (I was a 7th grader). :(

Also, my dad had tickets to a game vs KU in Ahearn when I was in 4th grade, but it was a blizzard that day so we couldn't go.
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Post by: Brock Landers on January 25, 2014, 09:20:28 AM
1st generation right here. Guess I'm "new money" or whatever.
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Post by: lopakman on January 25, 2014, 10:04:52 AM
ohhhh, fancy.  i'm stevseie, i have silver sppoon in my ass and a gold fork in my butthole.  ohhh hoidy toidy.  ohhh, i'm so much better than everyone elsee look at me! such a fancy boy!!!!

 :lol:  Between the hours of 2:00 and 4:00 am you're my favorite poster. 
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Post by: DQ12 on January 25, 2014, 11:01:28 AM
ohhhh, fancy.  i'm stevseie, i have silver sppoon in my ass and a gold fork in my butthole.  ohhh hoidy toidy.  ohhh, i'm so much better than everyone elsee look at me! such a fancy boy!!!!

 :lol:  Between the hours of 2:00 and 4:00 am you're my favorite poster.
Yes.  A fantastic post by seven. Excellent.
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Post by: Dr Rick Daris on January 25, 2014, 11:15:48 AM
first person in my family to go to college and it was emaw u.
fanning brag.
yeah, and?
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Post by: Asteriskhead on January 25, 2014, 11:53:08 AM
ohhhh, fancy.  i'm stevseie, i have silver sppoon in my ass and a gold fork in my butthole.  ohhh hoidy toidy.  ohhh, i'm so much better than everyone elsee look at me! such a fancy boy!!!!

 :love:
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Post by: Tobias on January 25, 2014, 11:58:30 AM
that was really great stuff seven
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Post by: nicname on January 25, 2014, 12:17:00 PM
Welp, seven es numero uno in this thread.

Second, I guess.  Dad went here, mom too (she didn't grad.).  My grandma on my mom's side grew up part of her life in MHK and her dad built a bunch of houses on freemont street (i think that's right). That same grandma went to KSU for two years before moving to Lawrence after she met and married my grandpa. They both graduated from KU.  He was a football player and track guy. 

First KSU memory? Some big win against Oklahoma in the late 80s Also remember the loss to KU in Detroit in 88. We watched that one during school. I think the first real memory that I knew I was EMAW was when I got pretty sad after Kevin Pritchard and KU beat Steve Henson in Manhattan in 90.

Listened to the first KSU football win under Snyder in my dad's Chevy Celebrity on KSAL in Salina. We were sitting in the Central Mall parking lot going crazy.
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Post by: 8manpick on January 25, 2014, 12:19:49 PM
1st gen.  Parents both started as squawks, finished at Fort Hays.  I grew up squawky but have been EMAW since about April of 2006.  Little bro went EMAW too.
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Post by: Daddy Claxton on January 25, 2014, 12:41:54 PM
Both parents and one brother. I'm wearing some sort of Ksu shirt in pretty much every childhood picture of me.

Dad is the tuckiest of tucks but never chose Ksu to finish lower than 4th in his yearly big 8 football pool at work. Then for some reason he lost hope and even cancelled his season tix when they hired some no-name assistant from Iowa. He came back pretty quick but lost his good seats.


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Post by: 0.42 on January 25, 2014, 12:53:47 PM
First gen (same for emab undergrad). Most of the family are Huskers with smatterings of Jayhawk, CUBuffs, Pokes, Sooners, and Longhorns thrown in there.
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Post by: 0.42 on January 25, 2014, 01:05:10 PM
When did you know you were emaw? Or your first emaw memory?


Wabashing for the first time with fatty at 2010 UCLA MOAP  :)
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Post by: ChiComCat on January 25, 2014, 01:07:43 PM
When did you know you were emaw? Or your first emaw memory?

My initial diehard memories come from the Mitch Richmond teams. I remember losing several bets when KU beat us in the tournament in 88 (I was a 7th grader). :(

Also, my dad had tickets to a game vs KU in Ahearn when I was in 4th grade, but it was a blizzard that day so we couldn't go.

I remember JJ Smith going up the East sideline in a game, not sure which one.  Other vivid early football memories for me are Chris Canty picking off an OU pass to ice the game and beating the hell out of KU the one season they were good in the mid-90s.

Earliest basketball memory at a game is probably the game that we waxed MU by about 50.  Favorite somewhat early basketball memory is stealing my mom's cell phone as a frosh in HS so I could order KSU/KU tix and bumming a ride there and back (2 hours each way) on a school night.  Every year for me was "this is the year."  My friend's big bro got us in the student section.  I gave the friend I bummed a ride with my spare ticket for the Beasley year which brought it full circle.
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Post by: Matt Siebrant's Left Hand on January 26, 2014, 12:33:19 AM
2nd with both parents + lots of Aunts and Uncles.

Would have been 3rd but my Gpa decided to go to Korea then came back knocked up my Gam Gam and started a farm (of die-hards EMAWs :gocho:)
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Post by: TownieCat on January 26, 2014, 01:40:38 PM
3rd generation EMAW. 2 grandparents, TownieMom, 2 uncles, 2 aunts, 2 siblings, and 9 cousins.
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Post by: ben ji on January 26, 2014, 05:49:43 PM
When did you know you were emaw? Or your first emaw memory?

1993 Copper Bowl.
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Post by: everyone shut up on January 26, 2014, 09:13:43 PM
1st gen, but hope to one day be sharing gameday experiences with kids and grandkids at emaw-u
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Post by: Tobias on January 30, 2014, 01:10:42 PM
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Kansas State University

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Post by: Cartierfor3 on January 30, 2014, 01:13:36 PM
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Kansas State University

Did you know 40 percent of ?#?KState?'s student population is made up of first-generation students, those who are the first person in their family to attend college? Through a highly competitive selection process, K-State is one of only seven universities participating in The Suder Foundation's First Scholars program. First Scholars addresses the unique challenges faced by first-generation freshmen by providing insightful tools, mentors, training and leadership opportunities. Learn more about this program at http://bit.ly/1jOu7pI (http://bit.ly/1jOu7pI).

We embody the land of opportunity perhaps better than anything else in this land. 
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Post by: The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep on January 30, 2014, 01:18:51 PM
parents went to Syracuse, both were first members of their family to go to college (we're polish, fwiw)

sister currently goes to KSU, but roots for squawk basketball. this is my fault, though. I dropped her on her head as a kid  :frown:
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Post by: ksupamplemousse on January 30, 2014, 02:27:35 PM
Grandpa played freshman football and night basketball for K-State before the marines came calling. Grandma was an Alpha Xi Delta and met my gramps at the United Methodist Church on Poyntz Avenue. Parents didn't go to college (both are Cats fans though), but two of my aunts are Wildcats, and the rest of my aunts and uncles are either Squawks or didn't go to college. My wife and I went to K-State, but her entire extended family are KU t-shirt fans...they are the worst.
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Post by: daBish7 on January 30, 2014, 02:56:53 PM
Grandpa played football for the cats and my dad pitched a no hitter for the bat cats :gocho:

Most of the fam went to KSU or are townies.
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Post by: UCHADBRO on January 30, 2014, 03:08:57 PM
Great Uncle, Father, and now myself. My family is pretty normal so I don't have any cool stories. However Gov Brownback did recognize my dad by name when we ran into him outside of the suite we were watching the 2012 KU game in. (He was his Ag Law teacher and FFA something or other)

My siblings didn't catch the EMAW like I did, but then again I was the only planned child so it makes sense.
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Post by: Emo EMAW on January 30, 2014, 03:09:16 PM
First generation.  Turned down an Ivy League offer to be EMAW.  No regrets.

Wife is third generation.
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Post by: puniraptor on January 30, 2014, 03:14:19 PM
First generation.  Turned down an Ivy League offer to be EMAW.  No regrets.

Wife is third generation.

chris merriwether?
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Post by: ben ji on January 30, 2014, 04:14:24 PM
Grandpa played freshman football and night basketball for K-State before the marines came calling. Grandma was an Alpha Xi Delta and met my gramps at the United Methodist Church on Poyntz Avenue. Parents didn't go to college (both are Cats fans though), but two of my aunts are Wildcats, and the rest of my aunts and uncles are either Squawks or didn't go to college. My wife and I went to K-State, but her entire extended family are KU t-shirt fans...they are the worst.

My parents got married in that church, in fact my Dad never walked at graduation because he was to busy getting hitched. (Wedding was same day as graduation).
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Post by: Ghost of Stan Parrish on January 30, 2014, 05:16:16 PM
My mom is the only KSU grad in the family; she got her Masters in EMAW.  My pop was a prof, and I was a townie.  I grew up with season tickets to watch good basketball at Ahearn & free entry to watch horrible football at KSU Stadium.  First EMAW memory is clambering around underneath the roll-out seats at Ahearn collecting stacks of plastic KSU cups.
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Post by: ksupamplemousse on January 30, 2014, 06:02:42 PM
Grandpa played freshman football and night basketball for K-State before the marines came calling. Grandma was an Alpha Xi Delta and met my gramps at the United Methodist Church on Poyntz Avenue. Parents didn't go to college (both are Cats fans though), but two of my aunts are Wildcats, and the rest of my aunts and uncles are either Squawks or didn't go to college. My wife and I went to K-State, but her entire extended family are KU t-shirt fans...they are the worst.

My parents got married in that church, in fact my Dad never walked at graduation because he was to busy getting hitched. (Wedding was same day as graduation).

They should just rename it the EMAW Chapel of Love.