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TITLETOWN - A Decade Long Celebration Of The Greatest Achievement In College Athletics History => Kansas State Football => Topic started by: Winters on January 29, 2017, 08:29:32 AM
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I'd have to go with 2011. Sure, it's easy to go with '97 or '98 or another year in the early 00's but I can't say I've ever felt the unexpected joy that the 2011 season brought, 10-wins, action packed games, like wow. I'm not asking for your best ksu purple cat team but the one you had the most genuine fun watching. Go Cats, guys! :cool:
(Author side note: The '97 Fiesta bowl is the first game I remember watching)
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2003.
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2003.
Why? That three game losing streak was opposite of fun but the streak following that was incredible and so dominant. :ksu:
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I'd have to go with 2011. Sure, it's easy to go with '97 or '98 or another year in the early 00's but I can't say I've ever felt the unexpected joy that the 2011 season brought, 10-wins, action packed games, like wow. I'm not asking for your best ksu purple cat team but the one you had the most genuine fun watching. Go Cats, guys! :cool:
(Author side note: The '97 Fiesta bowl is the first game I remember watching)
That 4 OT win over Texas AM :love: :love: :love:
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Still gotta go with 2012. So many "OMG WE ARE REALLY GOOD" moments like Smoking Miami, beating OU, then Crushing the hilljacks on national television.
Then to end it at home with a big12 title on the line against Texas....There was an energy in BSFS that night that is hard to explain....the fog...willie getting up on the pressbox to do the KSU chant (had only seen it in old youtube video of the Neb game in 2000). :love: :love: :love:
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1998. Hard as hell to beat that year
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At first I wanted to say 2012. However personally it was 2011. In 2012 I had a terrible migraine during the OU game. Also, after WVU I went into "don't mess this up" mode.
Then I went back and looked at the 2011 schedule. The @Miami game, the Baylor comeback, beating Mizzou on their way out, winning at Lubbock starting off with the pick-6, 4 OT over A&M, winning in Austin, & winning a fun game against ISU in the rain (the diving pick). Those were 7 very fun games, plus I watched us destroy KU in Vegas. I also went to the the OSU game, and even though we lost, the game was fun.
Overall, in season, 2011 was the most fun for me.
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98
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If you love defense and you don't say 98 I don't think we can be friends anymore
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Klein senior season
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i'll always have a soft spot for '11: the year of "dr. scheme"
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If you love defense and you don't say 98 I don't think we can be friends anymore
98 defense wasn't as good as the next two, maybe three, years. Pass defense had a complete fourth quarter Dr. Pepper meltdown, which was presaged in the Mizzou game. Once Newman got on the field, i.e. the Cotton Bowl, in 99 that might have been the best D the Cats ever fielded.
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2003.
Why? That three game losing streak was opposite of fun but the streak following that was incredible and so dominant. :ksu:
K-State in da house.
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2011.
Playing against Eastern Kentucky and barely winning that game, I came away depressed, thinking this was going to be a very bad K-State0 team. I had very low expectations for that team.
That was a fun ride.
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If you love defense and you don't say 98 I don't think we can be friends anymore
98 defense wasn't as good as the next two, maybe three, years. Pass defense had a complete fourth quarter Dr. Pepper meltdown, which was presaged in the Mizzou game. Once Newman got on the field, i.e. the Cotton Bowl, in 99 that might have been the best D the Cats ever fielded.
mahbe not stat wise it they were the funniest to watch, those guys just flew all over the field and that's why I love them
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I'm with Winters. I was too young to really be destroyed by 98. 2003 was a lot of fun until the Fiesta Bowl. '11 stole my heart when I wasn't even looking. Took it on a magical ride and tore it to shreds. The measure of love is in loss and I felt the most loss in '11.
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2011. And it isn't even close, although living with King Winters and watching the BCS reveal shows on Yuma was a lot of fun.
Those were also years I was in college so it was a lot of fun. For non college years 2002. It was the first year I went to a ton of games and it capped off with being in San Diego for the Holiday Bowl win.
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i remember the most stuff from 2011, so I'll hop on that one
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1993 :love:
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98 was my favorite team.
Loved the awesome road comebacks on the 99 team. The 3 game stretch in 2012 beating ranked teams WV Tech and OkSt was sweet. 2002, the USC game, then beating ku-isu-Nubb-mizz by 189 pts in 4 straight weeks was incredible
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1993 :love:
98 is probably number one for me, but 93 was the first truly successful year. You could feel the conference order changing during that OU game.
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1999. Joe Hall, Frank Murphy, David Allen. Beasley throwing it as far as he could every time he threw it. Quincy Morgan, Aaron Lockett. Holiday Bowl victory.
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'93
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'93
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Klein senior season
:facepalm:
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The year we first beat Nebraska.
But there's been a lot of them.
This year was surprisingly fun.
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1. 1998
2. 2012
3. 2011
4. 1997
5. 2000
6. 2003
7. 1993
8. 2002
9. 2016
10. 1995
11. 2017
12. 1999
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1. 1998
2. 2012
3. 2011
4. 1997
5. 2000
6. 2003
7. 1993
8. 2002
9. 2016
10. 1995
11. 2017
12. 1999
how is 99 that low, when you have 98 that high?
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1. 1998
2. 2012
3. 2011
4. 1997
5. 2000
6. 2003
7. 1993
8. 2002
9. 2016
10. 1995
11. 2017
12. 1999
how is 99 that low, when you have 98 that high?
Not to mention we haven't even played a game in 2017 yet.
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2011 had so many exciting games.
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98' my senior year I graduated in December of 98' it was just a blast.
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I picked 98 because I believe that was the best K-State team OAT.
But reading other posts, its hard to pick "most fun" because so many seasons were fun for different reasons.
93 was about being good for really the first time. Beating OU, tying CU, getting to 9 wins and a bowl game. Everything was so surreal.
94-96 was about sustaining that success. Lots of quality wins in there, but we proved that 93 wasn't a fluke. Snyder was really building a national program.
97 was about taking another step, despite another Nebraska loss. We all saw the talent and especially how special Michael Bishop was as a player.
98 was about reaching heights we never dreamed about. Beating Nebraska. Undefeated regular season. #1 ranking. Stuff we never even dreamed about. Of course we all know how it ended, but the journey to that point was a special time to be a K-State fan. In my mind only the 2012 seasonin football and the 2010 season in basketball even come close. There is something about legitimately being in consideration for the national title, especially at a school that has never won one.
99-02 was just really good football that we all probably took for granted. We were successful enough that we thought this is where we'd be forever. So many good players and fun teams, every loss was crushing. We all just wanted to get back to that national title consideration and we never quite got back there.
03 was overcoming a rough stretch and winning the league, another accomplishment for our program that was unprecedented. That single game in destroying OU on that stage is tough to beat for a one game moment as a K-State fan. Up there with 2010 Xavier basketball.
11 was so unexpected. Most people weren't fully bought in for Snyder 2.0 and this brought us back. So many ridiculously close games and wins. In many ways, a once in a lifetime season just for that.
12 was being back as a national contender. I don't think anyone thought Snyder would bring us back to that point.
13 to now has brought some nice moments. I enjoyed Waters to Lockett immensely, and the surprise surge to end this year was very enjoyable. Not on par with many of those past seasons, but still some really good times as a K-State football fan.
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2012 was soo much fun.. kicking the crap out of teams that were ranked on the reg was awesome especially winning huge games on the road on primetime national television.
I also loved the 1998 regular season and it put the cats firmly on the map but as a young cats fan that big 12 championship game just absolutely ruined me for a while.I remember talking lots of crap to the one Nebraska fan in my school at the time especially after we beat them. I remember him saying something snarky after us losing to a&m and I just couldn't muster up anything to say
2003 was more redemption based and gratifying imo, probably my favorite season of all time. they just were unreal after losing to okie state
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97 - My first goalposts experience (vs Colorado).
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2011.
Playing against Eastern Kentucky and barely winning that game, I came away depressed, thinking this was going to be a very bad K-State0 team. I had very low expectations for that team.
That was a fun ride.
This is exactly why it's 2011 for me.
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'03, being at the @NU and CCG @Arrowhead games were pretty damn fun games to be at.
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97 - My first goalposts experience (vs Colorado).
I'm 99.99998% sure we didn't take the goalposts down against Colorado, ever. They were terrible that year and we were in the top 10.
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1. 1998
2. 2012
3. 2011
4. 1997
5. 2000
6. 2003
7. 1993
8. 2002
9. 2016
10. 1995
11. 2017
12. 1999
how is 99 that low, when you have 98 that high?
Not to mention we haven't even played a game in 2017 yet.
I don't know how that happened; I meant to put 2014 at#9 and 2016 at #11.
With regard to 1999: I didn't have that much fun watching the cats that year. We were undefeated for a long time, but I never even thought we had a chance to win the north. Plus, the hangover from the end of 1998 was still there for me.
1998 and 2012 were the most fun because we were in the mix to win it all from August through November.
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97 - My first goalposts experience (vs Colorado).
I'm 99.99998% sure we didn't take the goalposts down against Colorado, ever. They were terrible that year and we were in the top 10.
http://www.cuatthegame.com/1997/no-10-kansas-state-wildcats-take-over-no-2-spot-in-big-12-north/ (http://www.cuatthegame.com/1997/no-10-kansas-state-wildcats-take-over-no-2-spot-in-big-12-north/)
The Buffs were heart-broken, disappointed, and angry. Said junior defensive end Nick Ziegler after the game, “I don’t want this to happen again. When their fans are tearing down goal posts and running over to our crowd to rub it in, it is heartbreaking for us to watch. I want us to be able to do the same thing next year in Boulder.”
I think it ended a sizeable streak of losses to the Buffs. We wouldn't even consider doing the same thing to another team of similar record nowadays.
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*non-wins
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Fun fact about 1999 that I think is true: We didn't allow a single point in the 3rd quarter all year.
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97 - My first goalposts experience (vs Colorado).
I'm 99.99998% sure we didn't take the goalposts down against Colorado, ever. They were terrible that year and we were in the top 10.
http://www.cuatthegame.com/1997/no-10-kansas-state-wildcats-take-over-no-2-spot-in-big-12-north/ (http://www.cuatthegame.com/1997/no-10-kansas-state-wildcats-take-over-no-2-spot-in-big-12-north/)
The Buffs were heart-broken, disappointed, and angry. Said junior defensive end Nick Ziegler after the game, “I don’t want this to happen again. When their fans are tearing down goal posts and running over to our crowd to rub it in, it is heartbreaking for us to watch. I want us to be able to do the same thing next year in Boulder.”
I think it ended a sizeable streak of losses to the Buffs. We wouldn't even consider doing the same thing to another team of similar record nowadays.
was that a night game and did we bring the goal posts up to the top of the old east side before deciding not to throw them off and instead brought them back down and out of the stadium and to aggieville?
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97 - My first goalposts experience (vs Colorado).
I'm 99.99998% sure we didn't take the goalposts down against Colorado, ever. They were terrible that year and we were in the top 10.
http://www.cuatthegame.com/1997/no-10-kansas-state-wildcats-take-over-no-2-spot-in-big-12-north/ (http://www.cuatthegame.com/1997/no-10-kansas-state-wildcats-take-over-no-2-spot-in-big-12-north/)
The Buffs were heart-broken, disappointed, and angry. Said junior defensive end Nick Ziegler after the game, “I don’t want this to happen again. When their fans are tearing down goal posts and running over to our crowd to rub it in, it is heartbreaking for us to watch. I want us to be able to do the same thing next year in Boulder.”
I think it ended a sizeable streak of losses to the Buffs. We wouldn't even consider doing the same thing to another team of similar record nowadays.
was that a night game and did we bring the goal posts up to the top of the old east side before deciding not to throw them off and instead brought them back down and out of the stadium and to aggieville?
The goalposts were split into 3 pieces, I lost track of the sides but was helping carry the middle piece. We walked it through the student union on our way to Aggieville. I believe the other two pieces wound up there as well. Someone suggested we cut it up for souvenirs...the police said we couldn't do that. :cry:
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2012.
2011 was really fun but it seemed like we were fools gold for a lot of it. And then OU seemed to confirm that. Weirdly, (outside of Baylor) the OSU game is the one I walked away from the most optimistic. Even so, winning by the skin of our teeth every game made me wonder just how legit we were.
In 2012, especially after OU and WVU, it was apparent that we were legitimately nat'l title contenders and had a legit Heisman contender. That's tough to beat. I'm sure 98 was the same for you ancient people, but for a guy like me who isn't a billion years old, the week-to-week gravity didn't really resonate with me yet.
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97 - My first goalposts experience (vs Colorado).
I'm 99.99998% sure we didn't take the goalposts down against Colorado, ever. They were terrible that year and we were in the top 10.
http://www.cuatthegame.com/1997/no-10-kansas-state-wildcats-take-over-no-2-spot-in-big-12-north/ (http://www.cuatthegame.com/1997/no-10-kansas-state-wildcats-take-over-no-2-spot-in-big-12-north/)
The Buffs were heart-broken, disappointed, and angry. Said junior defensive end Nick Ziegler after the game, “I don’t want this to happen again. When their fans are tearing down goal posts and running over to our crowd to rub it in, it is heartbreaking for us to watch. I want us to be able to do the same thing next year in Boulder.”
I think it ended a sizeable streak of losses to the Buffs. We wouldn't even consider doing the same thing to another team of similar record nowadays.
I was on the field after that game.
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That's the year I stopped being CU fan.
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has to be 2012. first year out of college, went to every game except baylor. was just a blast of a season except for the losses obvs.
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2012.
2011 was really fun but it seemed like we were fools gold for a lot of it. And then OU seemed to confirm that. Weirdly, (outside of Baylor) the OSU game is the one I walked away from the most optimistic. Even so, winning by the skin of our teeth every game made me wonder just how legit we were.
In 2012, especially after OU and WVU, it was apparent that we were legitimately nat'l title contenders and had a legit Heisman contender. That's tough to beat. I'm sure 98 was the same for you ancient people, but for a guy like me who isn't a billion years old, the week-to-week gravity didn't really resonate with me yet.
Yeah, and then we were exposed as a team that had no business playing for a nat'l title
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2012.
2011 was really fun but it seemed like we were fools gold for a lot of it. And then OU seemed to confirm that. Weirdly, (outside of Baylor) the OSU game is the one I walked away from the most optimistic. Even so, winning by the skin of our teeth every game made me wonder just how legit we were.
In 2012, especially after OU and WVU, it was apparent that we were legitimately nat'l title contenders and had a legit Heisman contender. That's tough to beat. I'm sure 98 was the same for you ancient people, but for a guy like me who isn't a billion years old, the week-to-week gravity didn't really resonate with me yet.
Yeah, and then we were exposed as a team that had no business playing for a nat'l title
Sure, we weren't a top 2 team (the best two teams that year were Oregon/Bama). But when they went down, all we had to do was take care of business and we'd have a very beatable ND in the NC.
It was an exciting time, Kim Carnes.
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I mixed up my years. 2012.
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97 - My first goalposts experience (vs Colorado).
I'm 99.99998% sure we didn't take the goalposts down against Colorado, ever. They were terrible that year and we were in the top 10.
http://www.cuatthegame.com/1997/no-10-kansas-state-wildcats-take-over-no-2-spot-in-big-12-north/ (http://www.cuatthegame.com/1997/no-10-kansas-state-wildcats-take-over-no-2-spot-in-big-12-north/)
The Buffs were heart-broken, disappointed, and angry. Said junior defensive end Nick Ziegler after the game, “I don’t want this to happen again. When their fans are tearing down goal posts and running over to our crowd to rub it in, it is heartbreaking for us to watch. I want us to be able to do the same thing next year in Boulder.”
I think it ended a sizeable streak of losses to the Buffs. We wouldn't even consider doing the same thing to another team of similar record nowadays.
was that a night game and did we bring the goal posts up to the top of the old east side before deciding not to throw them off and instead brought them back down and out of the stadium and to aggieville?
The goalposts were split into 3 pieces, I lost track of the sides but was helping carry the middle piece. We walked it through the student union on our way to Aggieville. I believe the other two pieces wound up there as well. Someone suggested we cut it up for souvenirs...the police said we couldn't do that. :cry:
Now I remember this. It did eventually end up in pieces, they had a piece at last chance. I initially forgot about this because I didn't get to walk the goalposts back to Aggieville because this was a 2:30 game and I had to work at the rec that night from 6:00 to close which was either 10 or 11 PM :curse:
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Echoing the sentiments of others in here. 2011 and 2012 for me. Thankfully, I was lucky enough to have been in college for both of those years.
If I had to pick I would say 2012, just because the week-to-week tension of being in a four horse race for two spots in the title game. A damn shame that we couldn't have got there.
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97 - My first goalposts experience (vs Colorado).
I'm 99.99998% sure we didn't take the goalposts down against Colorado, ever. They were terrible that year and we were in the top 10.
http://www.cuatthegame.com/1997/no-10-kansas-state-wildcats-take-over-no-2-spot-in-big-12-north/ (http://www.cuatthegame.com/1997/no-10-kansas-state-wildcats-take-over-no-2-spot-in-big-12-north/)
The Buffs were heart-broken, disappointed, and angry. Said junior defensive end Nick Ziegler after the game, “I don’t want this to happen again. When their fans are tearing down goal posts and running over to our crowd to rub it in, it is heartbreaking for us to watch. I want us to be able to do the same thing next year in Boulder.”
I think it ended a sizeable streak of losses to the Buffs. We wouldn't even consider doing the same thing to another team of similar record nowadays.
was that a night game and did we bring the goal posts up to the top of the old east side before deciding not to throw them off and instead brought them back down and out of the stadium and to aggieville?
The goalposts were split into 3 pieces, I lost track of the sides but was helping carry the middle piece. We walked it through the student union on our way to Aggieville. I believe the other two pieces wound up there as well. Someone suggested we cut it up for souvenirs...the police said we couldn't do that. :cry:
Now I remember this. It did eventually end up in pieces, they had a piece at last chance. I initially forgot about this because I didn't get to walk the goalposts back to Aggieville because this was a 2:30 game and I had to work at the rec that night from 6:00 to close which was either 10 or 11 PM :curse:
That .00002% is a real bitch sometimes
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2000 doesn't get its due as far as a fun season goes. We came up short against OU both times, but man they were intense epic Big 12 games vs a team that won the national title. We ended up destroying Tennessee in the Cotton Bowl so we can forever tell ourselves we would of beat them 2 years earlier as well.
Also that first game against OU vs the old regime at BSFS was one of the best atmospheres ever. Also last time we had a home College Gameday i believe.
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97 - My first goalposts experience (vs Colorado).
I'm 99.99998% sure we didn't take the goalposts down against Colorado, ever. They were terrible that year and we were in the top 10.
http://www.cuatthegame.com/1997/no-10-kansas-state-wildcats-take-over-no-2-spot-in-big-12-north/ (http://www.cuatthegame.com/1997/no-10-kansas-state-wildcats-take-over-no-2-spot-in-big-12-north/)
The Buffs were heart-broken, disappointed, and angry. Said junior defensive end Nick Ziegler after the game, “I don’t want this to happen again. When their fans are tearing down goal posts and running over to our crowd to rub it in, it is heartbreaking for us to watch. I want us to be able to do the same thing next year in Boulder.”
I think it ended a sizeable streak of losses to the Buffs. We wouldn't even consider doing the same thing to another team of similar record nowadays.
was that a night game and did we bring the goal posts up to the top of the old east side before deciding not to throw them off and instead brought them back down and out of the stadium and to aggieville?
The goalposts were split into 3 pieces, I lost track of the sides but was helping carry the middle piece. We walked it through the student union on our way to Aggieville. I believe the other two pieces wound up there as well. Someone suggested we cut it up for souvenirs...the police said we couldn't do that. :cry:
Now I remember this. It did eventually end up in pieces, they had a piece at last chance. I initially forgot about this because I didn't get to walk the goalposts back to Aggieville because this was a 2:30 game and I had to work at the rec that night from 6:00 to close which was either 10 or 11 PM :curse:
That .00002% is a real bitch sometimes
Tell me about it!
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2000 doesn't get its due as far as a fun season goes. We came up short against OU both times, but man they were intense epic Big 12 games vs a team that won the national title. We ended up destroying Tennessee in the Cotton Bowl so we can forever tell ourselves we would of beat them 2 years earlier as well.
Also that first game against OU vs the old regime at BSFS was one of the best atmospheres ever. Also last time we had a home College Gameday i believe.
Truth. The 2000 team was a slightly watered-down version of 1998. The collective offensive personnel might have actually been better (Quincy, Cartwright, Scobey, Meier, Aaron Lockett were all draft picks). Oh yeah, and David Allen. Sucks that he was never able to overcome that injury. I might be romanticizing this somewhat because that was the first season I started consistently attending games. Missed both OU tilts though. The most EMAW sequence in history happened in the 4th quarter of the game in Manhattan. Quincy Morgan touchdown, OU goes three-and-out, Terence Newman returns blocked punt for touchdown, Jon McGraw intercepts HB pass on OU's next possession. That happened in roughly 4 minutes of game time. Damn I miss the old Big 12
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2002 because it was the first great season I was in Manhattan for. USC game, Nebraska game, Iowa St game, @Mizzou, @KU, Holiday Bowl were all incredibly fun days to be a cat fan in the stadium partying.
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2002 because it was the first great season I was in Manhattan for. USC game, Nebraska game, Iowa St game, @Mizzou, @KU, Holiday Bowl were all incredibly fun days to be a cat fan in the stadium partying.
Another great team. Not super sexy because Ell was still coming into his own as a passer, which led to us running the ball like 60+ times per game. But that :lynchmob: was sick... And Darren :love:
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For reference; good/bad for K-State offenses and defenses.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C02zsWNUsAER8l5.png:large)
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Sometimes close games are really fun (like 2002 vs USC) and sometimes monster blowouts are really fun (like 2002 vs Nebraska)
losses are not fun.
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Sometimes close games are really fun (like 2002 vs USC) and sometimes monster blowouts are really fun (like 2002 vs Nebraska)
losses are not fun.
Close wins are fun afterward.
But I never go into a game, no matter how good the opponent, hoping for a "good game". (I know that reality says most will be close.)
I'll take 3-4 TD blowouts any time.
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Probs 2017 all aboard the #ertzmobile #hypetrain
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For reference; good/bad for K-State offenses and defenses.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C02zsWNUsAER8l5.png:large)
2002 looks good