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General Discussion => Wacky's World => Topic started by: gatoveintisiet on March 22, 2018, 10:41:22 AM
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It wasn’t until my freshman year for me, happened right on campus -19
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Good thread. I was 11 or 12. The first player I remember really enjoying and following was the Sarge.
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don't remember the exact age....elementary school age. Would throw the football around in the yard while listening to cats game on the radio.
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Perfect thread, fellas! I was born in Manhattan, KS and I vaguely remember mom getting excited about meeting Mitch Richmond. However, I believe I was 8 when it really hit me. '92-93. We lived in Colorado and I had a friend who liked the Buffs. I had a K-State troll doll that i'd sit in front of the TV for all of the games.
Like this, but super creepier and with old school wildcat Tom
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/DqIAAOSw8oFX0NXk/s-l1600.jpg)
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the first time I had a physical reaction was when I got out of school. I was listening to the start of a Nebraska ksu football game on the radio and got the chills, it really surprised me and a tear came to my eye.
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Good thread. I was 11 or 12. The first player I remember really enjoying and following was the Sarge.
Wait, wasn't that guy in the WWE years ago. :surprised:
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BTW, it was the mid nineties before it I got interested. I love the school, but couldn't stand KSU being a shitty ass Basketball school. Hated being as bad as KU in football and KU fans talking crap during BB season.
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8.
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11 (which was 67 years ago)
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18
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18 also
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Eight years old. Chad May beating KU in Manhattan, which was no sure thing at the time. I was hooked. In retrospect, that game was boring af, but beating KU meant everything at the time. Grew up in Lawrence, and I mushed a lot of rough ridin' faces the next Monday at school. I remember watching the game against Purdue at bramlage when I was like four, and I tried to care, but it was a bit forced, I just wasn't old enough to get why it mattered.
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Good thread. I was 11 or 12. The first player I remember really enjoying and following was the Sarge.
Wait, wasn't that guy in the WWE years ago. :surprised:
Norris Coleman. He was sort of a bridge (along with Kruger) from the old days of K-State basketball to the new. A Hartman recruit who spend 5 years in the army before coming on campus. He was stellar during Hartman's last year (85-86 season) on a pretty bad team and then was ruled ineligible after the season because he didn't meet minimum HS requirements for the NCAA. He was supposed to be suspended for a season and for a while it looked like he was going to leave K-State, but he chose to stay. Then the NCAA reduced his suspension from 1 year to 12 games and he joined with first year Mitch Richmond in Kruger's first year to lead the team to the tournament. Then he left K-State early (he was 26 by that point) to go pro and spent one year with the Clippers after being drafted before going playing overseas. He is the first K-State player of any sport that I remember following/watching to any extent and my interest in K-State started while watching him play. The Elite 8 run the next year in 1988 drew me in even more, and the first year I remember really following K-State on a regular basis was in 1988-89. The rest is history. FWIW, the first K-State football game I remember listening to was the 17-17 tie with KU in 1987 which was during the same time period. I can still remember being in my room and hearing the game winning FG attempt being blocked like it was yesterday.
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10 or 11. Was a fan before, but that was around when I held my breath during games. 90-91. Somewhere in there.
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8th grade when I attended my first KSU cats football game which was the Missouri State massacre in 2012.
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