TRIUMPH WEARS VELOUR
We have a snippet of Mark Mangino wearing his triumphant velour suit he donned for Saturday’s win over the Texas A&M Aggies. We were going to add “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Baby” behind it, but Mike Patrick’s sloooooooowed-dooooooooown voice sounds better and more thematically appropriate given the imagery shown here.
Do not, under any circumstances, actually pay attention to Kansas football–not to their 10.2 ppg allowed by the defense, or to the thunderous running of Brandon McAnderson, who’s pounding the ball from Mangino’s spread-formations like a post-pubescent Quentin Griffin. Not to the fact that they remain undefeated and could, in theory at least, win the Big 12 Championship game and be cruising to the heartiest golly-jeez flyover country BCS Championship Game ever with Ohio State.
Nope…we’ll just keep talking about the tracksuit.
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Chilltown says:
I’ve made the joke before, but its too apropos to not make it again:
“What’s that daddy?”
“Why that’s Mercury, the planet closest to the sun. What its doing here, I have no idea.”
October 29th, 2007 at 9:23 am
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Rival says:
Kansas cannot win a championship.
I think it’s a state law or something.
It’s Kansas. Something bad will happen.
Just like the Industrial Revolution, prohibition, and Bob Dole as president – the stars are ultimately aligned against Kansas’.
October 29th, 2007 at 9:28 am
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Raider Red says:
Don’t criticize the wardrobe, or he’ll have you encased in carbonite.
October 29th, 2007 at 9:29 am
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gerry dorsey says:
i got $20 that says you can hear him coming from a mile away in that fucking outfit.
ps-flame me if you want…but kansas is good.
October 29th, 2007 at 9:31 am
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Oops Pow Surprise says:
What a svelte, handsome man!
Sincerely,
Charlie Weis
October 29th, 2007 at 9:33 am
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Gentleman Masher says:
I think for his own health the powers that be will keep an undefeated Kansas out of the BCS National Title Game.
They don’t want Mangino pulling a Mama Cass on Etouffe and Boudin…
October 29th, 2007 at 9:39 am
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PW says:
If KU actually does make it to the MNC game, there would probably be more national fan support for them than any other team in MNC history, especially if they play tOSU. Because, fat though he may be, Mangino is infinitely more likeable than Fulmer, Weis, etc.
October 29th, 2007 at 9:43 am
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Brian says:
The man is a ball with a head.
October 29th, 2007 at 9:51 am
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DevilGrad says:
If KU makes it to New Orleans, we’ll all find out whether roux is the beverage of champions.
October 29th, 2007 at 9:52 am
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Xaryn says:
I wonder if the tracksuit were made of corduroy if he’d have a specially-designated assistant to follow him around with a fire extinguisher in case of combustion caused by thigh-rubbage.
October 29th, 2007 at 9:54 am
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Biggus Rickus says:
I could have done without ever reading “thigh-rubbage” in regards to Mangino.
October 29th, 2007 at 9:59 am
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okiedomer says:
KU will eventually run into the brick wall that is OU
but
if they did somehow go to the title game, i’m setting the O/U on lucky dogs consumed by mangino on gameday alone at 38.5
October 29th, 2007 at 10:00 am
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Harvey Wireman says:
Weis would be beaten by Mangino in a Speedy contest.
October 29th, 2007 at 10:02 am
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Xaryn says:
Biggus, you’re right, and I’m sorry. I think I just threw up in my mouth, just a little….
October 29th, 2007 at 10:03 am
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HFS says:
Somewhere, George Kostanza is smiling. The days of draping yourself in velvet becoming socially acceptable cannot be far away. (On a related note, neither can the apocalypse.)
October 29th, 2007 at 10:04 am
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PW says:
With his little mustache, he either looks like a) a fat Charlie Chaplain, or b) Wimpy from Popeye.
October 29th, 2007 at 10:04 am
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Anon says:
“But Leela…it’s real valour.”
October 29th, 2007 at 10:08 am
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ehrenb says:
It’s like Zap Brannigan without his girdle – plus 200 lbs.
October 29th, 2007 at 10:08 am
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gerry dorsey says:
‘member that time mangino went to the chocolate factory??
October 29th, 2007 at 10:09 am
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PeteJayhawk says:
Mangino fucking rules.
I’m just pissed that the tracksuit is not available for purchase by the general public.
October 29th, 2007 at 10:14 am
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haybeav says:
I guess to no one’s surprise, gameday will be in Eugene this weekend….
That’s fine by me because Alabama is 1-5 when both Gameday and I are in Tuscaloosa at the same time
October 29th, 2007 at 10:15 am
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Shinebox says:
The cupcakes did their job.
October 29th, 2007 at 10:16 am
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NoleinTexas says:
Wow, nice to see that someone can eat the meal-flavored gum from the Chocolate Factory and get out alive. Good for him.
October 29th, 2007 at 10:22 am
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Coop says:
Yeah, Gameday should definitely be at Bama this weekend, but that is something admirable about Oregon students standing in front of the cameras at 7AM, PST.
Either they are not going to bed on Fridays, or they are curtailing whatever it is they would otherwise be doing on Friday nights.
Also, for all the gamblers out there, just do yourself a favor and take Oregon, no matter the spread, for the first half. Erickson has been destroying people in the 2nd half all season long, but laying eggs in the 1st.
October 29th, 2007 at 10:22 am
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Rival says:
I’m just pissed that the tracksuit is not available for purchase by the general public.
For what??!
Tracksuit space for your entire town?
A tarp after a bad storm damages your roof?
An emergency parachute for yourself and the other 449 passengers on Airbus’ new jumbo jet?
Extra material to replace Grimace costumes for the every McDonald’s restaurant in the US?
A cover for the space shuttle?
A key part of a solar eclipse machine?
A carrying case for the moon?
Somebody stop me…
October 29th, 2007 at 10:26 am
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m says:
I love him because he’s doing his part to break down the Italian stereotypes that have really plagued my people.
October 29th, 2007 at 10:33 am
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BurritoBrosShits says:
So that’s what Bobby Bacala would look like had he lived for another twenty years. And ate some more canolli. And maybe some lasagna. And maybe a small child.
October 29th, 2007 at 10:48 am
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Crabapple Buck says:
Mangino looks like Clemenza from ‘The Godfather’. “Leave the gun, take the canoli.”
October 29th, 2007 at 10:58 am
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jebus says:
That’s like a Zapruder film for chubby chasers.
October 29th, 2007 at 11:10 am
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El Hombre says:
I know it’s been said, but…since when did Jabba the Hut start dressing fairly decently?
And believe me, the entire city of Columbia asked itself “Is that fucking VELOUR?” when they saw that on television. We know it is–better to beat him in on November 24.
October 29th, 2007 at 11:21 am
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Dave says:
Ignatius J. Mangino, please stand up… if you can.
October 29th, 2007 at 11:21 am
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Brian says:
#19 – I spent like 20 mins looking for that picture this morning, you bastard!!!
October 29th, 2007 at 11:44 am
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yoyofutbawl says:
KU will get to the big one, apparently stop a 2-point conversion in the last seconds only to discover they had 12 men on the field.
Next play, they allow Lydell Mitchell, oops, Beanie Wells to score & lose.
Shades of Pepper Rodgers & John Riggins.
October 29th, 2007 at 11:45 am
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BamaCPA says:
How does this guy enforce any S & C for his team ?
“Yeah, coach, we know you take conditioning real seriously”.
October 29th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
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tOSU_radar says:
Krystal Burger is stocking up as we speak!
Maybe that liquor stand that sells The Grenade can work up some sort of endorsement with the inflatable grenade suit…
October 29th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
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sherlock hemlock says:
My God, that thing should be hovering precariously over the Macy building on Thanksgiving morn.
October 29th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
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DevilGrad says:
Re #34: Simple. “If you guys don’t fucking run, I’ll eat you.”
Works for Tom Amstutz too.
October 29th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
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UgasTexan says:
Cocktails to #22 for the double entendre.
More cocktails to #31 for the Kennedy O’Toole reference. One of the fines books ever written that.
And, finally, slap my ass and call me Sally, but if #4 and #5 are playing each other, that’s a legitimate Gameday spot. Plus, the Chik-fil-a SEC Tailgate Show will be in Tuscaloosa and it’s better anyway.
October 29th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
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Brian O'Blivion says:
MACKENZIE: Did you hear something?
MANGINO: No, I didn’t hear anything.
MACKENZIE: Huh, that’s strange. It’s quieter here. We can concentrate without people wooshing around… That sound again. Sure you didn’t hear anything?
MANGINO: No, can’t say as I did.
MACKENZIE: Kind of like a… rustling.
MANGINO: Could be the leaves…
October 29th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
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King Puppy says:
For our A&M/KU tailgate, I made a Mangin-O-Lantern, put it on my head and terrorized passersby. Probably one of my better tailgating outings since The Gary Barnett Incident in ‘04.
October 29th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
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eric y says:
eric y would remind you all that ku will definitely make it to wherever and stop saying they won’t and jay whitlow and the jayhawks will conquer the world including nebraska missouri oklahoma and colorado and if there is anything beyond those 5 jay whitlow and the jayhawks will conquer that as well and whitlow has not missed a game this year and whitlow saw all of the victories and whitlow is a jayhawk
October 29th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
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Tom says:
If you could somehow put that into the family guy clip of stewie following fat people around with a tuba, it would be genius
October 30th, 2007 at 9:54 pm