If you grew up in Kansas as I did, there were certain things you could look forward to….
And all of those things have dramatically changed in recent years, and especially right now.
We’ve got a football team that has won 3 super bowls in the past 5 years, and there’s nothing saying we can’t do the threepeat, led by Patrick Mahomes, who is likely to go down as a top 3 QB.
We’ve got a fun baseball team, led by almost a Mahomes type clone, except the baseball version. We’re primed to be a playoff team again, and with more offseason moves, we could be in the mix next year, and years forthcoming…
As a Jayhawk fan, we’ve already won two Natty’s and Covid year ruined what could’ve been a third. Nevertheless, Bill has us always in the mix and it’s always worth watching.
And now KU football is not just competent, but actually good, fun to watch and winning. Lance Leipold is already a legend.
Things will go sideways, we won’t win em all, but man, Kansas, this region…. Who’d have thunk this? We’re living in golden times. [Reply]
Sometimes it’s fun to pump sunshine and rainbows. This is absolutely the time.
Seeing stuff like Salvy randomly stopping to play wiffle ball in a KC neighborhood…. It’s just so cool, and so many of us have grown accustomed to living with so much cynicism, and no doubt about it, living and navigating this world isn’t easy, but with regard to sports and the joy it brings, we are absolutely living in a golden period.
And I know it sounds sanctimonious to some people in the area who feel “left out”, or they’re not Kansas people. I get it. But please, don’t take my sunshine away…
It’s pretty cool to live in flyover country and have a solid life here, while enjoying the spotlight of the bigger nation shining on our area from time to time for the fun reason of athletics, and we’ve got that covered in spades right now.
Chiefs are great, Royals are winning, Jayhawks are flying high…. It’s a year long event of nearly daily relevance that satiates the mundanity of life, filling us with vicarious joy and the thrill of fandom.
Prior to the KU Title in 2008, it was REAL easy to fall into the idea that we're cursed. And we may get back there some day, but GODDAMN it's fun to win. [Reply]
Prior to the KU Title in 2008, it was REAL easy to fall into the idea that we're cursed. And we may get back there some day, but GODDAMN it's fun to win.
Mario's Flukeacle was the equivalent of you throwing a ball blindfolded the length of the court so ya no curse [Reply]
