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So for those of you that are curious about how Super Jayhawk got started down this path of being a furry superhero mascot in spandex....
When I was 2 years old my parents were attending the University of Kansas and my Dad took me to a basketball game. I saw the Jayhawk mascot and I was blown away. I still remember it like it was 5 minutes ago. I wanted to be him, and he claimed me as his own.
My parents moved to California when my parents finished their degrees and I forgot about the Jayhawk and KU-- that was my parents' school anyway. And then I went back to Kansas to go there for college myself. And the Jayhawk was there. I wanted SO badly to be him!
I never got to be the Jayhawk mascot. The temperature on the football field was 120 degrees and I just would have died. But I'd go to the games and cheer for the mascot, and for my Jayhawks, even when they were losing badly.
While in the dorm in 1989 I came across this flyer posted in the elevator lobby and I was captivated. A Jayhawk dressed up as a superhero! If there was anything I had wanted to be just as badly as the Jayhawk, it was Superman. I put on my first pair of blue tights at age 7 as part of a Superman costume and it changed my life, and I've been a spandex fiend ever since.
The event was a Champions! Club, back from the olden times of role-playing games before computers could handle them. No computer or graphics, just a hexagonal grid, your figurine, a DM or GM hiding behind a wall of books, and lots of multi-sided dice. Back then you to use your imagination, kids!
And Super Jayhawk was my Champions! Character, borrowing from the Jayhawk mascot, Mighty Mouse, and Superman. 27 years later I'm still running around in tights and playing him to this day, and it's been an amazing journey to find out who I am and what I want to be. I think it's the most important journey anyone can ever embark upon, and so few people in our world ever really do this.
When I was 2 years old my parents were attending the University of Kansas and my Dad took me to a basketball game. I saw the Jayhawk mascot and I was blown away. I still remember it like it was 5 minutes ago. I wanted to be him, and he claimed me as his own.
My parents moved to California when my parents finished their degrees and I forgot about the Jayhawk and KU-- that was my parents' school anyway. And then I went back to Kansas to go there for college myself. And the Jayhawk was there. I wanted SO badly to be him!
I never got to be the Jayhawk mascot. The temperature on the football field was 120 degrees and I just would have died. But I'd go to the games and cheer for the mascot, and for my Jayhawks, even when they were losing badly.
While in the dorm in 1989 I came across this flyer posted in the elevator lobby and I was captivated. A Jayhawk dressed up as a superhero! If there was anything I had wanted to be just as badly as the Jayhawk, it was Superman. I put on my first pair of blue tights at age 7 as part of a Superman costume and it changed my life, and I've been a spandex fiend ever since.
The event was a Champions! Club, back from the olden times of role-playing games before computers could handle them. No computer or graphics, just a hexagonal grid, your figurine, a DM or GM hiding behind a wall of books, and lots of multi-sided dice. Back then you to use your imagination, kids!
And Super Jayhawk was my Champions! Character, borrowing from the Jayhawk mascot, Mighty Mouse, and Superman. 27 years later I'm still running around in tights and playing him to this day, and it's been an amazing journey to find out who I am and what I want to be. I think it's the most important journey anyone can ever embark upon, and so few people in our world ever really do this.
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