On Thursday, the MAC announced a delay of fall sports until September 3rd except for football, which is noteworthy because K-State is scheduled to play a member of the MAC, Buffalo, on September 5th in the first game of the 2020 season. I assume this means that all of the MAC football team(s) are allowed to show up to work out and practice in preparation of the fall football season. Looks like the MAC is still planning on a fall…
It’s time. Time to remove the “Wildcat” nickname from Kansas State University. With all the unjust and offensive sport team nicknames out there, this one must be added to the list of cancellations. Washington Redskins? Cleveland Indians? Texas Rangers? Dallas Cowboys? Kansas City Chiefs? If these team names are going to be changed as a result of the “woke” social media mob, I believe K-State fans should join the social justice warriors and force the hand of the administration of…
Here’s another clip from the 1993 Copper Bowl. Mike Ekeler was one of my favorite K-State players. He and I were in a couple of the same classes at K-State. He was a normal, quiet guy off the field, but on the field was a different story. I thought of him as the “Rudy” of K-State football. A walk-on that was undersized and not very fast, he mostly played on special teams and took advantage of every second he was…
The 1993 Copper Bowl was K-State’s first bowl game in a long bowl game streak under coach Bill Snyder. Nobody knew exactly what to expect. Wyoming had an 8-3 record going into the game and K-State was 8-2-1 and ranked number 20 in the AP poll. At the point in the game that Coleman returned this punt for a touchdown, K-State was leading 17-10. This put K-State up by two touchdowns and it was a dagger as they went on…
The 1998 K-State/Nebraska game was one for the ages. K-State came into the game as the number two ranked team in the country and Nebraska was ranked number 11. K-State hadn’t beaten Nebraska since the Stone Age and had their best team ever, led by Michael Bishop. This is one of the great K-State games that I did not see in person. I gave up my season tickets temporarily because we had a baby at home and it was a…