KANSAS CITY (AP) A city best known for its barbecue, bebop jazz and, for a while now, bad baseball has become a sea of Royals blue as long suffering fans suddenly find their team in the World Series.
Kansas City's improbable playoff run stoked a pride that has strangers giving each other high fives and police officers taking to social media to thank residents for abstaining from crime at least on the days the Royals play.
Twenty nine years after the Royals beat the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1985 World Series, a whole new generation is learning how to celebrate winning baseball for the first time. Team gear is flying off sporting goods store shelves and sports bars around town shook as the Royals clinched the American League pennant in the Dt5FW6a9x middle of Wednesday's happy hour.
"We're all so excited we can hardly stand it," Gail Locascio said Thursday morning as she sifted jersey wholesale through Royals window decals at a Dick's Sporting Goods store in Merriam, Kan.
The 61 year old Overland Park, Kan., resident was loading up on T shirts to send to her two sons, longtime Royals fans who have moved away. Her youngest son lives in Hawaii and was surprised Wednesday when his wife gave him tickets to Game 4 of the World Series.
Her daughter in law bought them through the San Francisco Giants, who defeated the Cardinals in the NL championship series. That's one reason Locascio was rooting for the Giants; the other is she didn't want a repeat of the 1985 I 70 series.
"Been there, done that," she said.
Up the road in Mission, Kan., dozens of people milled around half empty racks of blue T shirts at an apparel store that opened nearly three hours earlier than normal Thursday. to wait for the first shipment of shirts, which arrived soon afterward.
In the Kansas City suburb of Raymore, two trash collectors were surprised when they showed up at John Keesee's home Wednesday morning and found two brand new Royals jerseys hanging from a trash container.
Keesee, an Alabama native who goes by "Bubba John," said he knew the men didn't have Royals shirts and he wanted to thank them for serving him so well the past few years.
"They're real good to me," said Keesee, a 56 year old golf pro who also owns a seafood business. "With my seafood business, my trash is trashy, nfl elite jersey but they never miss a day."
The Kansas City mayor's office is urging people to illuminate their homes and businesses in blue, much like the new owners of the historic downtown Power and Light Building did last weekend.
Rodney Pullen, who works for Northpoint Development, said the idea of cloaking the top of the city's original skyscraper in blue came custom basketball jerseys cheap up last Thursday. He spent the weekend at the top of the dormant, 36 story structure installing 500 light bulbs encased in a blue, heat resistant gel.
"We thought it would be really cool to make it blue for the boys coming home from Baltimore," he said.
The self identified City of Fountains also has turned six of its most popular fountains a deep blue and has plans to bottle some of that water, the mayor's office said.
"The mayor is absolutely thrilled that the hometown team is in the World Series and is so proud that our team has now become America's team," Mayor Sly James' spokeswoman, Joni Wickham, said Thursday. http://pets.engelsystems.com/forum/topic/3012
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The day embraced all the essentials of a grand and glorious homecoming football game for small Prairie View A The sun was shining brightly in southeastern Texas. The halftime show featured Prairie View's renowned marching band, typically bold and brassy. The stands of Blackshear Stadium were filled to capacity with 6,000 alumni, students and supporters. But when the high stepping band departed, when the Prairie View players in their gleaming gold helmets and purple jerseys returned to resume play, half the fans had already departed or were flocking to the aisles as though responding to an emergency call. The score was 42 14 in favor of visiting Tarleton (Tex.) State, and the situation was about to get worse. This was last Saturday, when the Prairie View Panthers would go down, 70 20, suffering their 44th straight loss and earning a share of the National Collegiate Athletic Association record for football futility first set by Columbia from 1983 to 1989. "It hurts to walk out for the second half and see everybody leaving; we hate it," said Michael Porter, a 5 foot 8 inch, 200 pound sophomore running back from Davis High School in Houston. "But we've grown accustomed to it. Happens every home game. At other colleges, football players walk around campus and people respect them. Here, you get more respect being in the band." While Columbia which, like Prairie View, doesn't offer athletic scholarships has 4 3 1 record this season, the Panthers haven't won a game since Oct. 28, 1989, the only victory in a 1 9 season. The Panthers haven't had a winning season since 1967, when it was 5 4. On Saturday, the Panthers play Jackson State in Jackson, Miss., one of the stronger teams in the Division I AA Southwestern Athletic Conference, which is composed of historically black schools. The Prairie View players know they face the melancholy prospect of breaking an embarrassing collegiate record. After the Tarleton State loss, Coach Ron Beard said what has become a kind of litany for him: "They beat us on offense, they beat us on defense and they were more disciplined." He expressed similar sentiments after the 51 0 loss to Arkansas Pine Bluff, the 66 0 loss to Grambling and the 69 10 loss to Alcorn State. "We work hard in practice, and everyone wants to win most of the players really think we can win every Saturday," said Alphonse Provo, a senior linebacker who has played in 42 of the team's losses, "and then we always seem to do something to shoot ourselves in the foot." Porter worries about something else. "I didn't win a game in high school, either," he said. "We lost 30 in a row. I hope I'm not a jinx." Said Jerrold Crowder, a senior linebacker cheap nfl jerseys and perhaps the best player on the team: "Those numbers about losing streaks are for other people to talk about. I cheap mlb jerseys don't see us as a team that's lost 44 games in a row. I see it that we lost last week. If you think 44 in a row, that's depressing. It'll make you want to quit. If baseball jerseys you lost 44 games of anything, you'd want to give up. But I've never been a quitter. My mom always told me, 'If you quit the first time, it makes quitting the second time that much easier.' " Beard, the hefty head man for all but the first 2 of the 44 losses, could evince a semblance of humor after the Tarleton game. First and foremost, Prairie View is the only school in its conference that doesn't offer athletic scholarships. None of the players were recruited by any other school. Many Dt5FW6a9x were second and third string on their high school teams. Some didn't play high school football at all. As for two of their best players, both grew and got stronger in college: Crowder, who was injured and didn't play his senior year of high school in Houston, and defensive lineman Augustus Belser, who played only his last year in high school and was then "small" at 230 pounds. He now weighs 280. Ninety five percent of the 5,600 students at Prairie View have qualified for some kind of financial aid, including most of the football players. So all of the football players must be serious students first if they don't keep up their grades they lose the aid athletes second. The academic requirements at Prairie View are the highest in the conference as is its 67 percent graduation rate for student athletes. Prairie View is proud of its academic achievements, including and especially the strong engineering program Crowder is one of those in it that produces more black engineers than any other college in the country. And Beard and his four coaches all must teach other classes, unlike many other coaches who just have football responsibilities. Beard also coaches the men's and women's golf teams and teaches six classes. In his spare time, he chalks down the lines on the football field before practice. http://forums.grindhouseglobal.com/index.php?topic=1377142.0
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The day embraced all the essentials of a grand and glorious homecoming football game for small Prairie View A The sun was shining brightly in southeastern Texas. The halftime show featured Prairie View's renowned marching band, typically bold and brassy. The stands of Blackshear Stadium were filled to capacity with 6,000 alumni, students and supporters. But when the high stepping band departed, when the Prairie View players in their gleaming gold helmets and purple jerseys returned to resume play, half the fans had already departed or were flocking to the aisles as though responding to an emergency call. The score was 42 14 in favor of visiting Tarleton (Tex.) State, and the situation was about to get worse. This was last Saturday, when the Prairie View Panthers would go down, 70 20, suffering their 44th straight loss and earning a share of the National Collegiate Athletic Association record for football futility first set by Columbia from 1983 to 1989. "It hurts to walk out for the second half and see everybody leaving; we hate it," said Michael Porter, a 5 foot 8 inch, 200 pound sophomore running back from Davis High School in Houston. "But we've grown accustomed to it. Happens every home game. At other colleges, football players walk around campus and people respect them. Here, you get more respect being in the band." While Columbia which, like Prairie View, doesn't offer athletic scholarships has 4 3 1 record this season, the Panthers haven't won a game since Oct. 28, 1989, the only victory in a 1 9 season. The Panthers haven't had a winning season since 1967, when it was 5 4. On Saturday, the Panthers play Jackson State in Jackson, Miss., one of the stronger teams in the Division I AA Southwestern Athletic Conference, which is composed of historically black schools. The Prairie View players know they face the melancholy prospect of breaking an embarrassing collegiate record. After the Tarleton State loss, Coach Ron Beard said what has become a kind of litany for him: "They beat us on offense, they beat us on defense and they were more disciplined." He expressed similar sentiments after the 51 0 loss to Arkansas Pine Bluff, the 66 0 loss to Grambling and the 69 10 loss to Alcorn State. "We work hard in practice, and everyone wants to win most of the players really think we can win every Saturday," said Alphonse Provo, a senior linebacker who has played in 42 of the team's losses, "and then we always seem to do something to shoot ourselves in the foot." Porter worries about something else. "I didn't win a game in high school, either," he said. "We lost 30 in a row. I hope I'm not a jinx." Said Jerrold Crowder, a senior linebacker cheap nfl jerseys and perhaps the best player on the team: "Those numbers about losing streaks are for other people to talk about. I cheap mlb jerseys don't see us as a team that's lost 44 games in a row. I see it that we lost last week. If you think 44 in a row, that's depressing. It'll make you want to quit. If baseball jerseys you lost 44 games of anything, you'd want to give up. But I've never been a quitter. My mom always told me, 'If you quit the first time, it makes quitting the second time that much easier.' " Beard, the hefty head man for all but the first 2 of the 44 losses, could evince a semblance of humor after the Tarleton game. First and foremost, Prairie View is the only school in its conference that doesn't offer athletic scholarships. None of the players were recruited by any other school. Many Dt5FW6a9x were second and third string on their high school teams. Some didn't play high school football at all. As for two of their best players, both grew and got stronger in college: Crowder, who was injured and didn't play his senior year of high school in Houston, and defensive lineman Augustus Belser, who played only his last year in high school and was then "small" at 230 pounds. He now weighs 280. Ninety five percent of the 5,600 students at Prairie View have qualified for some kind of financial aid, including most of the football players. So all of the football players must be serious students first if they don't keep up their grades they lose the aid athletes second. The academic requirements at Prairie View are the highest in the conference as is its 67 percent graduation rate for student athletes. Prairie View is proud of its academic achievements, including and especially the strong engineering program Crowder is one of those in it that produces more black engineers than any other college in the country. And Beard and his four coaches all must teach other classes, unlike many other coaches who just have football responsibilities. Beard also coaches the men's and women's golf teams and teaches six classes. In his spare time, he chalks down the lines on the football field before practice. http://forums.grindhouseglobal.com/index.php?topic=1377142.0
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