Alumni, advisory board urge game day ‘blue out’

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Nebraska fans are used to traveling in mass to Memorial Stadium in Lawrence to fill the stadium with red. If the homecoming advisory board and certain student-led Facebook.com groups have their way, Saturday will feature a “Homecoming Blue Out.”

Jennifer Alderice, University of Kansas homecoming adviser, said she received numerous e-mails from alumni asking for a unified color.

“They are excited about being 8-0 and one of the things they hate about playing Nebraska is they all show up in red,” Alderice said. “So wouldn’t it be great if we wore blue?”

Alderice said a factor of the “blue out” was urging fewer fans to wear Kansas’ other color, crimson, which is similar to the Huskers’ color. Alderice said wearing blue would allow KU fans to look more unified.

Alderice, who has worked on homecoming activities for six years, could not recall a homecoming game that was sold out. The Kansas-Nebraska game was announced a sellout more than a month ago, and Alderice expects a big influx of fans to attend homecoming activities.

Those activities include a pancake breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. on the Stauffer-Flint Hall lawn, located between Wescoe Hall and Watson Library, and the Homecoming Parade along Jayhawk Blvd. at 9:30 a.m. The pancake breakfast costs $5 and is open to the public.

Bradley Friedman, Leawood sophomore, created a Facebook group on Tuesday called “BLUEOUT Nebraska,” which had more than 1,000 members on Wednesday.

“This year we don’t have any good teams that we are playing at home,” Friedman said. “This is the best game we will see at home. Plus, we are eighth in the nation. We need to support the team because they will be competing for a BCS Bowl Game.”

Alderice did not think the “blue out” measure was too extreme, seeing as though the 8-0 Jayhawks are 18-point favorites against the 4-5 Huskers.

“One, it’s Homecoming, and two, it’s Nebraska, so why not?” Alderice said. “Let’s do it and have fun and just blue them out.”

Edited by Meghan Murphy

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