Tuesday, October 27, 2009

K-State fan one win away from being totally insufferable

DESOTO – Friends of Jeremy Landers, a diehard fan of Kansas State University, say the 24-year-old pizza delivery driver is bordering on becoming totally unbearable.


Landers, who grew up a diehard Kansas State fan, has recently become more vocal about the Wildcats and their spot in the Big 12 and the national college football scene. With Kansas State on a two-game winning streak, and in first place in the Big 12 north, K-State football is all Landers can talk about.

“Two weeks ago, he was just a normal guy, but now, Christ, he won’t shut the fuck up about Kansas State and Bill Snyder,” said John Handley, a friend of Landers. “I think he’s spent the last three days figuring out the schedule of every Big 12 North team and predicting each game, describing exactly how K-State is going to win the division. It’d be fine if it was just once, but I swear he does this every 15 minutes. It’s like he’s on fucking repeat.”


In week six of the college football season, the Wildcats were blown out by Texas Tech, 66-14, dropping K-State to 3-3, with two of those wins against Division-IAA teams. Since that time, however, the ‘Cats have won back to back games against Colorado and Texas A&M, putting them at 5-3 overall, and in first place in the North.


“Two weeks ago, that guy stood no less than two feet from me and declared K-State was a basketball school, and then spent 20 minutes talking about KU and K-State’s basketball record before 1988, and that 20 years does not make a historic program,” said Handley. “Now, just 14 days later, all he can talk about is K-State’s football record since 1990 and how they’re nationally known as one of the top programs in college football.”


If the Wildcats can win their next game, against Oklahoma, friends say they may have to stop hanging out with Landers again. Ironically, it was K-State’s last win over Oklahoma that prompted them to “take a break” from hanging out with their friend.


“I was at K-State with Jeremy at the time, and even I got sick of hearing about it,” said Clive Rogers, an accountant, who said their group of friends decided not to hang out with Landers during the 2003 Christmas break. “We didn’t actually freeze him out, we just hung out a few times and didn’t call him. We just needed a few “football free” weeks. You have to understand, that was the culmination of almost seven years of non-stop K-State bragging. It was awful. Still, he’s only half as irritating as most KU fans I know.”

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