WE’VE GOT YOUR HOTTEST TICKET IN DOUGLAS COUNTY, KS! SbB’s official adopted football team this season is our beloved Kansas Jayhawks.

Like you, we can barely contain ourselves over a team that has barreled out of the gate at 4-0 (never mind that those four opponents have combined for a 3-14 record).

Well, we’ve got a really, really big one coming up this Saturday. But we’re feeling good about the game, especially with that heart-attack-with-a-headset, Jayhawks coach Mark Mangino, larded loaded for bear against the dreaded K-State PowerCats™. Mangino is one of two reasons we’ve so taken such a liking to (Middle) America’s team. The other reason, of course, is “Baby Jay”:

Baby Jay is one of the two official KU mascots, and has always been a mystery to us. Was the character always intended to be smaller than “Big Jay”, or did the hatchling suffer tragic growth deficiency at the hands of early-age kidney loss?

Wikipedia claims these are the requirements to play the knee-high fowl made of felt:

• Be between 4 ft 11 in and 5 ft 1 in tall
• 20 minutes of running
• Emotion and reaction exercises
• Dancing with the pep band and leading cheers

How they mixed up the list with KU cornerback requirements, we have no idea.