I stopped off at the Class 6A championship game between Hutchinson and Olathe South in Topeka, on my way, of course, to Kansas City for the big KU-MU game at Arrowhead.
Here are some observations from the high school game, which is tied 14-14 in the third quarter as I type this.
Olathe South has 32 cheerleaders. They take up most of the track. Hutchinson has nearly as many cheerleaders. Do they have tryouts anymore or does every girl who wants to be a cheerleader get to be one?
There is non-stop chatter in the press box, which is fine. Except the people doing the chatting think they’re funny and they’re not. They’re really not. There is nothing worse than people who aren’t funny trying to be funny and this press box at Yager Stadium is full of those kind of people. They have a comment for everything. I’m nearly insane, but attempting to hold it together. They’re not bad guys, I don’t think, just not funny guys. Who think they are.
Could the Kansas State High School Activities Association make these state championship games seem any less important? Yager Stadium for the 6A title? On the campus of Washburn? Nothing against Washburn, but we have to do better than this. The five championship games today should be played at the same place, starting at 9 a.m. The lineup would be: 9, noon, 3, 6 and 9. That’s doable. And how much fun would it be to have all the teams together at the same place? But, alas, nothing changes with the KSHSAA, which is stuck in some dark age.