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The Main Event!

After a stop at the Museum of Science and Industry to see the Titanic Artifacts Exhibit (which was pretty awesome, but no pictures allowed), we made our way to the football stadium.  Easier said than done when you don't know exactly where you are allowed to park!  We finally found the high school parking lot where a free shuttle would take us in.  On a side-note, we sat next to a 3-year old Delaney on the shuttle (K-State fans)!

We climbed and climbed and climbed to reach our seats, but we finally made it with time to spare before kick-off!  We were a little weak-kneed when standing up, but it got better when fans filled in the seats in front of us.
Beautiful sunset as we reached the top!
Because we were so high up, we had a great view of downtown Ft. Worth!
This does look a little steep, doesn't it?
Just as the game started, word got out that Alabama had been beaten.  We got to watch the game that put K-State at #1 (in the BCS anyway).  I'm pretty sure Oregon will eventually be #1, but for the time being we are enjoying it!  It was fun to be surrounded by friendly fans in the opponent's stadium - around 10,000 K-State fans from what I understand!  Towards the end of the game, we made our way closer to the field next to the tunnel to the locker room.  I got okay pictures of some of these guys!  If you had told me a few years ago that I would know names and numbers of football players, I would have said you were crazy!

The 2 injured - Tyler Lockett and Ty Zimmerman
Congratulating a long line of football players
In the middle - #4 Arthur Brown and #7 Collin Klein.  There
were so many photographers following him around!
#17 - Weston Hiebert - maybe not notable to most fans, but very
notable to anyone from Goessel!
#33 - John Hubert
There was a lot of purple in town that day - both K-State and TCU!  In one of my e-mails today, I saw a funny piece of trivia about the K-State's purple:

 . . . The Wildcats were making the switch from Russell gear to Nike uniforms when Snyder came on the scene in 1989 when the new attention to detail coach pretty much demanded that K-State switch to a darker shade of purple.  Laughing at the story of Snyder visiting with a Nike representative, then equipment manager Shorty Kleinau recalled, "The Nike rep kept saying that there was only one shade of purple, but coach kept telling him, `If we can put a man on the moon, then you can make a darker color of purple'."  Poof!!! "Dark Orchid" was invented with the color only worn today by Kansas State.

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