KU fans complaining about the banana incident from 1978 grows tiresome. How quickly they forget it was a merely a response to the antics orchestrated by ku students a few weeks before. From the February 25, 1983 LJ World:
"In January 1978, KU fans at Allen Fieldhouse tossed hot dogs onto the court when flashy Wildcat Curtis Redding was introduced, as an indication of his gregarious on-court manner. . . . The Cat fans responded in kind the following month, tossing more than 100 bananas onto the court when Jayhawk Donnie Von Moore was introduced in front of a Manhattan crowd."
Hot dogs = not racist
Bananas = definitely racist
Didn't Von Moore eat the bananas and shrug off the whole thing? At least that's what I have heard of the story.
That doesn't make it better, cas.
Yeah I'm not suggesting it did. I just wondered if that is actually part of the story.
Ok, listen. We threw bananas in 1978 because we thought he looked like a monkey, which, sure, might
seem super racist but actually we were so
not racist that we didn't even know about the whole black people monkey thing and just wanted to have a little fun with our friend Donnie Von Moore who was super cool about it because he knew it wasn't a race thing and was hungry anyways and everyone slapped fives afterwards. If we knew the internet was going to be invented and this would be used as ammunition on something called a message board 35 years later we probably never would of done it but what can you do, different times.