Football is almost upon us

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Wildcat nation, there’s just one more sleep (or Keenan Garber days) before Real Live K-State Football happens! That means we can stop talking about the myriad things that have occupied our minds these past weeks and just focus on things that happen on the field.

I went to my first live college football game since 2019 last night, and although the outcome was not to my liking, I reveled in all the rest of the sights and sounds that make college football such a unique experience: the band, the fight song, the weird (sometimes even dumb) game day traditions that each program has, the enthusiasm of the other (possibly inebriated) fans, even the gently…