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Title: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: Stevesie60 on August 01, 2011, 02:38:12 AM
What was the first moment you knew you were EMAW to the core?

Mine was 1995 when we lost to Colorado at home. I knew the pain it caused me was greater than any pain I would ever experience because of something non-EMAW related. Have been EMAW ever since.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: nicname on August 01, 2011, 03:22:53 AM
Listening to the 93 KSU at Minnesota fball game on the radio at my aunts house while all my cousins were playing outside.  young nicname went bezerk when we won that one.  I cried when we lost to BYU in the Cotton Bowl. young nicname was also devatated when KSU hoops lost to Tulane in the 93 NCAAs, couldn't believe we lost to them.

fun story about nicname and KSU sports.  my dad took me and a friend to the KSU v MU game in 94 right after we had just won the Copper Bowl.  Anyway, after the game was over I went down to the court to try and get autographs or something.  we lost and none of the players were there, but guess who was!? KSU star running back JJ Smith and he autographed my Big 12 basketball.  then I went on the court and took a 3 pointer and drained it.  then they kicked me off the court.



Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: kcchiefdav on August 01, 2011, 03:31:59 AM
1996 Inaugural Big XII Game against TTU. It was my first K-State home football game. There was no turning off the K-StateO after that.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: Pete on August 01, 2011, 04:56:33 AM
Man, I was a "part" of each the ones listed in this thread so far.  1993 was the year for me...

The pain and understanding listening to Mitch in the parking lot after we tied CU that year, and telling us that "if a tie was like kissing your sister, our sister was Christi Brinkley."  I was like, yep, you nailed it Mitch.

I still get emotional when I think about  listening to Mitch in the parking lot after we beat OU in 93, hearing Mitch say "Listen to me CLOSELY!" over and over...and then he gave his "Red Sea parted speech."  I had rough ridin' tears in my eyes...

I miss the crap out of crazy old Mitch. 

It's not reasonable, and I'm not really proud of it, but I small part of me really did want to die 1998, just to stop the pain....


Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: j rake on August 01, 2011, 06:57:05 AM
KANSAS STATE +13.5 BEATS OKLAHOMA IN BIG 12 TITLE GAME!   

 :kstategrad:
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: steve dave on August 01, 2011, 07:00:50 AM
KANSAS STATE +13.5 BEATS OKLAHOMA IN BIG 12 TITLE GAME!   

 :kstategrad:

I wonder what the moneyline on that SOB was
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: kitten_mittons on August 01, 2011, 08:17:18 AM
KANSAS STATE +13.5 BEATS OKLAHOMA IN BIG 12 TITLE GAME!   

 :kstategrad:

I wonder what the moneyline on that SOB was
What if you teased it to KSU -27.5?

 :surprised:
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: chum1 on August 01, 2011, 08:25:41 AM
so gay
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: nicname on August 01, 2011, 08:39:14 AM
i'm way too edgy and cool for this type of stuff
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: Stevesie60 on August 01, 2011, 08:45:35 AM
fun story about nicname and KSU sports.  my dad took me and a friend to the KSU v MU game in 94 right after we had just won the Copper Bowl.  Anyway, after the game was over I went down to the court to try and get autographs or something.  we lost and none of the players were there, but guess who was!? KSU star running back JJ Smith and he autographed my Big 12 basketball.  then I went on the court and took a 3 pointer and drained it.  then they kicked me off the court.


I thoroughly enjoyed this story.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: michigancat on August 01, 2011, 08:46:19 AM
i'm way too edgy and cool for this type of stuff

he's right on this one. It's pretty bad. It's like my "why I'm skeptical" post on ksufans. jesus christ what a hilariously embarrassing moment.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: pc5k on August 01, 2011, 08:59:35 AM
16-12 ksu over ku in 1991 i think.  First game i ever went to, hearing the croud chant fk k u and then storming the field after the game did it for me.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: Dugout DickStone on August 01, 2011, 09:13:02 AM
Man, I was a "part" of each the ones listed in this thread so far.  1993 was the year for me...

The pain and understanding listening to Mitch in the parking lot after we tied CU that year, and telling us that "if a tie was like kissing your sister, our sister was Christi Brinkley."  I was like, yep, you nailed it Mitch.

I still get emotional when I think about  listening to Mitch in the parking lot after we beat OU in 93, hearing Mitch say "Listen to me CLOSELY!" over and over...and then he gave his "Red Sea parted speech."  I had effing tears in my eyes...

I miss the crap out of crazy old Mitch. 

It's not reasonable, and I'm not really proud of it, but I small part of me really did want to die 1998, just to stop the pain....




Mitch was a big part of being EMAW when I was in the gestational emaw period. 
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: MadCat on August 01, 2011, 09:37:01 AM
I was sort of a quasi-KSU/OU fan from '96 to 2000 (though I had to sit next to the OU band in '96, so I super ultra hate them from that experience).  In 2000, my girlfriend at the time (who was an LSU fan) worked at the Holidome where the OU team was staying.  She would tell me how each team handled themselves while staying there.  The OU team more or less pissed, shat, ejaculated, blew their noses, etc. all over the place and the coaches apparently DGAF.  I decided to put all my eggs in the EMAW basket at that point.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: ben ji on August 01, 2011, 09:37:36 AM
2002 game vs USC. I was at highschool homecoming dance and was pissed cuz my date wouldnt make out with me. Buddy comes running up and tells me we beat USC and all my problems go away.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: pissclams on August 01, 2011, 09:50:33 AM
i'm way too edgy and cool for this type of stuff

he's right on this one. It's pretty bad. It's like my "why I'm skeptical" post on ksufans. jesus christ what a hilariously embarrassing moment.
man, my "I believe" post on ksufans still makes me cringe.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: TheHamburglar on August 01, 2011, 09:52:10 AM
'94 KU game...Thursday night, we watched it in our football coach's basement, 20 5th graders split down the middle KSU-KU...another poster on here was there as well.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: chum1 on August 01, 2011, 10:00:00 AM
i love simultaneously reading goEMAW and watching OWN.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: OK_Cat on August 01, 2011, 10:29:23 AM
i love simultaneously reading goEMAW and watching OWN.

i know right  :lol:
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: kso_FAN on August 01, 2011, 10:48:00 AM
1988 NCAA run and Elite 8 loss to KU.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: AppleJack on August 01, 2011, 10:50:07 AM
1998 when I decided to go to school there. 
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: Underdog Wildcat on August 01, 2011, 10:51:27 AM
March 27, 1988 sucked pretty hard.

Don't think I smiled for about 2 months after that.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: KSUTOMMY on August 01, 2011, 12:51:28 PM
aTm 1998 still stings a little.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: DQ12 on August 01, 2011, 01:00:48 PM
In '02 when I watched our lady wildcats get beat by Old Dominion in the Sweet Sixteen.  I have never shouted more obscenities or felt lower in my life.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: j-dub on August 01, 2011, 01:09:11 PM
My first semester. Pasco Fiasco.

Knew I was in for quite a ride.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: fatty fat fat on August 01, 2011, 01:15:37 PM
skipping playing "hide n go seek" on LK to listen to the consolation round of the 1998 Maui Classic (we beat Clemson iirc)
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: Dave Wooderson on August 01, 2011, 01:41:38 PM
Third generation EMAW, so basically was bred Purple.  Yet, the 1988 KSU vs. KU game in Allen Fieldhouse sealed the deal for me.  Alumni section, buddies parents had season tix, 5th row, and took me and him.  I was 14, in purple sweats, purple sweatshirt and screaming loud for Richmond and Henson.  Richmond scored 30+, don't remember the exact number and Henson sealed it at the line down the stretch.  I was nutty all game and on the ride home.  Never got asked back. 

First home football game experience was against North Texas.  After they beat those low-lifes the students rushed the field.  Since been all EMAW at football games and only missed a handful since. 
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: kstate4life on August 01, 2011, 01:50:01 PM
Listening to Chad May make multiple sub minute game winning drives in the early 90's with my dad in the garage... and then jumping around like we won a championship or something.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: Cartierfor3 on August 01, 2011, 01:52:24 PM
2001 loss to A&M at home.  Was my freshman year and I got WAY more angry than I had expected.  Was a casual fan from about 95-2000, but being on campus sucked me in. 
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: yoga-like_abana on August 01, 2011, 02:03:49 PM
Since birth bitch.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: Emo EMAW on August 01, 2011, 02:10:17 PM
Since birth bitch.

Weird Roberts was your wet nurse?  :horrorsurprise:
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: wazucat on August 01, 2011, 03:20:40 PM
After attending my first and only Cats - Kwho game at the Allen FH in '72   :dunno: ,  the Aubrey Nash fake injury foul call  and the smug Jayhawk fans all around me, created a hate with absolute passion for KU and Ted Owens and turned me hard core EMAW.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: OK_Cat on August 01, 2011, 03:35:05 PM
After attending my first and only Cats - Kwho game at the Allen FH in '72   :dunno: ,  the Aubrey Nash fake injury foul call  and the smug Jayhawk fans all around me, created a hate with absolute passion for KU and Ted Owens and turned me hard core EMAW.

cool story, grandpa.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: bigwillie20 on August 01, 2011, 03:54:00 PM
After attending my first and only Cats - Kwho game at the Allen FH in '72   :dunno: ,  the Aubrey Nash fake injury foul call  and the smug Jayhawk fans all around me, created a hate with absolute passion for KU and Ted Owens and turned me hard core EMAW.

cool story, grandpa.

 :lol:
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: thunderbowlt on August 01, 2011, 06:11:16 PM
Listening to the adventures of the purple popgun twins on the old AM radio...
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: derikj on August 01, 2011, 06:35:54 PM
NU '98...watched with my mom...jumped up and celebrated like we won the national championship. Also cried when I saw a Briggs commercial with "Good Riddance" playing showing highlights of Michael Bishop. I was 6 fyi.  :emawkid:
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Post by: raquetcat on August 01, 2011, 07:43:52 PM
skipping playing "hide n go seek" on LK to listen to the consolation round of the 1998 Maui Classic (we beat Clemson iirc)

didn't know you were so big time fff

I would have to say listening to the 1995 game at cincinnati on the radio where lockett pulled it out at the end, and mitch went crazy at the end and I'm sure added 79-283 big bigs, had to be my first full on EMAW love story, after that it was full on non-stop emaw, 1998 put me in a dark place, 2003 helped me to get out of it
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: Testy Westy on August 01, 2011, 08:04:25 PM
Throughout my childhood when I would cry like a little bitch because my parents wouldn't take me to road games with them.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: O-town Kat on August 01, 2011, 09:29:39 PM
Copper Bowl
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: kst8cat on August 02, 2011, 01:10:20 AM
KANSAS STATE +13.5 BEATS OKLAHOMA IN BIG 12 TITLE GAME!   

 :kstategrad:

I wonder what the moneyline on that SOB was

Moneyline was +500.  I bet $50 on the Cats and won $250.   :kstategrad:
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: Pittcat on August 02, 2011, 09:24:59 AM
Copper Bowl

THIS.  Watched it 3 feet from my grandparents' wooden-cabinet-looking-dial-channel-changer TV.  There was no turning back at that point.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: Winters on August 02, 2011, 02:19:22 PM
I knew 100% after I hit my mom in the face after I was crying in '98
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: Saulbadguy on August 02, 2011, 03:02:23 PM
i'm way too edgy and cool for this type of stuff

he's right on this one. It's pretty bad. It's like my "why I'm skeptical" post on ksufans. jesus christ what a hilariously embarrassing moment.
Given the time I bet I could transcribe that word for word from memory.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on August 02, 2011, 03:28:51 PM
98' vs. A&M was the biggest bitch slap of all time. I balled like a little bitch. Sometimes at night, I can still hear the crying...
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: scottwildcat on August 02, 2011, 03:32:24 PM
when i slapped my cousin during the fourth qtr of the '97 Nebraska game for saying "K-State is not good" (was only 6) and then thinking the world was all mine after winning the game Fiesta Bowl that year
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: 60scat on August 02, 2011, 05:14:26 PM
I'll be the true grandpa on here for you guy's.   The year was 1961 when I took a campus trip by train from KC, Mo.   Before that, having grown up Catholic, I was somewhat of a ND fan and listened some to the Sqwaks.    That trip and experience sealed the deal for me.    I've been a EMAW ever since.    :bracketmouse: :lynchmob: :ksu:
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: Tobias on August 02, 2011, 05:23:32 PM
I'll be the true grandpa on here for you guy's.   The year was 1961 when I took a campus trip by train from KC, Mo.   Before that, having grown up Catholic, I was somewhat of a ND fan and listened some to the Sqwaks.    That trip and experience sealed the deal for me.    I've been a EMAW ever since.    :bracketmouse: :lynchmob: :ksu:

and here i thought we had some weird deviant into scat stuff - nope, we've got the real deal (great?) grandfather of emaw.  possibly also on our coaching staff.  mods? :cyclist:
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: DQ12 on August 02, 2011, 05:40:14 PM
Glad to see cyclist finally made the transfer.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: Tobias on August 02, 2011, 05:47:11 PM
became a mini-emaw when mini-tobias' fam moved to kansas in the mid-90s.  rest of the family are all squawks except big sis.  don't recall the exact transfer from mini to full-fledged emaw though.  :embarrassed:
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: wabash909 on August 02, 2011, 05:55:33 PM
1988 NCAA run and Elite 8 loss to KU.

This one.  

Listening on the radio in the backyard with my dad to us beat North Texas in 1989 and Mitch Holthus celebrating like we just won the superbowl.  

Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: Dr Rick Daris on August 02, 2011, 07:36:54 PM


Listening on the radio in the backyard with my dad to us beat North Texas in 1989 and Mitch Holthus celebrating like we just won the superbowl.  



was at that game with friends. no family. just friends. pretty great. little daris and co. ran out on the field and tried to help tear down the goalpost.
Title: Re: If You Had To Pick One....
Post by: Houcat on August 02, 2011, 08:00:45 PM
Not being able to sleep the night BEFORE the Copper Bowl.  I'm thinking this is crazy, it's just a game....
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Post by: cas4ksu on August 02, 2011, 08:24:03 PM
EMAW since that devastating loss to Tulane in the '93 Torn-a-ment.
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Post by: chunkles on August 02, 2011, 09:27:15 PM
Ekeler flip
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Post by: MixBerryCrunch on August 02, 2011, 09:30:34 PM
The 1996 Cotton Bowl game against BYU. I was only 7 and had never even seen a KState game before, but something about that game lit a spark in me and I was pissed when they lost. Been EMAW to the bones ever since.