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April 7, 200811:08 p.m.
Did that really just happen??
April 7, 200810:51 p.m.
Did we really just win the National Championship!?!!??!?!?!
They’re Rock Chalk chanting in the Fox and Hound. This is so awesome.
Did that really just happen????
Jubilation in this bar
April 7, 200810:48 p.m.
I am high fiving with people I have never met. This is the best day ever ever ever.
My computer battery is almost dead
April 7, 200810:45 p.m.
Have just relocated near a plug-in and a man who assures me we’re gonna win.
This might be the best game ever ever ever ever ever
April 7, 200810:40 p.m.
I hope. Brothers Ben and Chris Kliewer are so happy right now. Just like the rest of us.
AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!
April 7, 200810:33 p.m.
AAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THREE POINTER BY CHALMERS!!!!! AAAAAAaaaaaaAAAA!!!!!
The manager is currently ordering people off the chairs. GET DOWN FROM THE CHAIRS PEOPLE!
Is there hope??
April 7, 200810:25 p.m.
People around here seem to think so. The crowd is suddenly alive again, shouting DEFENSE! DEFENSE! DEFENSE!
Richard Nixon Dixon thinks there was a bad call.
Deeeep breaths
April 7, 200810:05 p.m.
Here’s what the people all around me are doing right now.Fidgeting. Running to the restroom. Shushing each other. Shoveling the food in. Cursing. Chewing their fingernails. Zoning out during endless commercials. Deleting Elvis songs from their iPods. Texting their equally worried friends. Watching their hopes and dreams die in big-screen technicolor.Clapping. Jayhakws just got the ball. COME ON!!
Sustenance
April 7, 200810:01 p.m.
I appreciate the decorative newspaper print cushioning my chicken wings here at the Fox and Hound. I’m sorry. I can’t talk about the game right now. No one else can either. Lori Linenberger is out there in the crowd trying to get some comments, and all she’s getting is a bunch of distracted, frightened, monosyllabic Kansas fans.
Scenes from halftime
April 7, 20089:57 p.m.
Trust me, you don’t want scenes from right now. It’s way too tense in here. What a nail biter.Anyway, here’s a shot I got of Roy (and Roy and Roy and Roy and Roy) during halftime.
Tension breaker
April 7, 20089:52 p.m.
This point hardly seems relevant with KU leading only by one, my heart beating out of control and the tension all around me thicker than the smoke in the Wichita air today, BUT…These guys above have nothing invested in the game. Neither is a KU fan. They just came here for a business meeting and stayed to watch the locals suffer.The guy on the right, Markel Maybin, is telling everyone who will listen that his buddy Matt Vainer, left, was born and raised in Memphis.It’s not true, but things could get interesting nonetheless.
Well put, Lori Buselt
April 7, 20089:43 p.m.
From the comfort of her own home, WichiTalk editor Lori Buselt is watching the game.This message landed in my cell phone inbox during the first half.
Halftime recharge
April 7, 20089:12 p.m.
Note to the one or two people who have seen this blog tonight. Gotta take a half-time break to recharge the computer battery. Dern technology. See you back for a the second-half victory posts.Hope I didn’t just jinx us.
We need more of this
April 7, 20089:06 p.m.
Here are John Baker, left, and his friend Richard Dixon (we thought he said Richard Nixon at first) right after Sasha Kaun did something Sasha Kaun-ish. I believe it included a dunk and a couple of much-needed points.
Roy Williams sighting
April 7, 20088:56 p.m.
The former coach, just broadcast on the big screen sitting in the crowd with his Jayhawk sticker on, earned the predictable chorus of both cheers and boos from this rowdy crowd.
Near tragedy
April 7, 20088:49 p.m.
There was a near-riot just now at the ole Fox and Hound.The satellite dish went out. For a split-second, the screens in this place all went black.They came on moments later, just as KU scored the basket that put them ahead. Whew. That would have been ugly.Now we’re up by five. The chain smokers have taken a break.
April 7, 20088:47 p.m.
Just toured the bar looking for notable faces, and this is the best I could do, folks.Dr. Tim Pett, the director of WSU’s Center for Entrepreneurship, is here with a couple of students and is (unsuccessfully, now) guarding a secret.He’s a Memphis grad. He told me not to post this until Memphis was ahead big time, but when he added that his quote would be “Tastes like chicken,” (as in the Jayhawks), I decided not to honor said request.
Tense fans
April 7, 20088:38 p.m.
Brothers Ben and Chris Kliewer of Wichita. Turn those frowns upside down, fellas.
Audible assistance
April 7, 20088:28 p.m.
Just realized something interesting. My nose is buried in this computer, but it’s no problem. In this room, you don’t need to watch the game to know what’s going on. Everyone is narrating.Not happily at the moment.
It’s a Rush crowd
April 7, 20088:22 p.m.
Can’t speak for any other sports bars, but at the Fox and Hound, the team introduction resulted in the loudest cheers for Brandon Rush.Huh. No one is cheering for any of the Memphis players. In fact, no one’s paying much attention at all.On a side note, our seats are right by the restrooms. Score.
My history with the Hawks
April 7, 20088:01 p.m.
A few remarks about my history Jayhawk basketball.I am not a sports fan. Not at all. But when I was a student at KU from 1992 to 1995, I got totally sucked in to KU basketball. Hard not to at that school.I got the student season pass, and my friends and I went to all the games. We sat in the student seats and tore up the Kansan to throw in the air and OOOOOOOOOd for Greg Ostertag and had the time of our lives.I started at KU during the Adonis Jordan era. I sat next to Eric Pauley’s girlfriend in math class, and one day, she and I had a little tiff. (Girl was nuts.) Later, after a big loss, I’d see Jacque Vaughn in the student union and want to pummel him for ruining my night.I’ve watched them through the highs and lows, and sometimes, it’s been hard on my heart. I was with Bob and Rick and the crew in 2002, writing fan stories, when the Jayhawks got to the Final Four in Atlanta. They lost in the first game, and it was one of the most depressing events I’ve ever attended.I kind of had to give it up after that. It just hurt too bad. But I’m back this year.Call me a fair weather fan, if you will. But if the Jayhawks do go all the way, I have no intention of missing it.
Devoted fans
April 7, 20087:46 p.m.
Best I can tell, there are a lot of them here. And if they’re not, well, it’s going to be a very noisy dinner hour.Two of them we spotted are pals Jim Moore and Patty Winegar. Jim, a KU grad, was watching television 20 years ago when Danny & The Miracles won the whole thing. He’s hoping for a repeat tonight.
We’re here
April 7, 20087:37 p.m.
I know what you’re thinking. Thank goodness the Eagle is blogging live from Fox & Hound tonight because I’m sure this game is going to be super boring, and I’ll need something to read during the downtime.We’ll, you’re welcome.It’s 7:33, and I’ve just arrived at Fox & Hound, which we’re told is Wichita Jayhawk Central for tonight. The place is fairly packed (although there are still some seats available where we are. Come on over. Look for the pool tables converted into table tables.)With me is my boss and fellow KU grad, Lori Linenberger. She’s here to help with photos, observations and… because her K-State grad husband was watching baseball (???????).At the moment, people are eating, drinking and listening to Dick Vitale yapping on a T.V. screen bigger than my car. A lady next to me is drinking a margarita out of a glass bigger than my bathtub.Everyone is happy and excited now. I hope I can say the same thing in about three hours.
Go Jayhawks!
April 7, 20084:07 p.m.
Welcome to Jaytalk. Denise will be heading out to Fox and Hound later tonight and will be live-blogging from there during the game. Check back a few minutes before the tip, and the blog should be well under way.