Thursday, October 25, 2007
The University Daily Kansan and leaders from various student organizations are combining forces to present a T-shirt contest for students to create two shirts—an alternate for the “Muck Fizzou” shirt and a new non-sport specific gameday shirt.
The contest began Wednesday. Students can log onto Kansan.com/tshirt and nominate slogans for each. The submission process will last one week. Late next week, representatives from the Kansan and the student organizations will pick the top five for both, and the finalists will be announced during the Kansas-Nebraska homecoming football game at Memorial Stadium.
Students will then vote on the five finalists for a week at Kansan.com to determine winners.
Nate Stafford, Overland Park senior, and marketing and promotions manager for the Kansan, said the University wanted to present an alternative to “Muck Fizzou” that better represented the student body.
“We aren’t telling people to bring their Mizzou shirt and drop it in this vat of acid,” Stafford said. “The success of this, 100 percent, lies in the student body.”
One motivation for the change came last year when ESPN announced that it would not show students wearing the “Muck Fizzou” shirts on television.
“Next time Brandon Rush drives down the lane and throws down against Missouri, don’t you want the camera to be able to show the student body?” Stafford said. “Don’t you want them to show how crazy we are going? Or do you want to wear your Muck Fizzou shirt? I think it is unfair to those sitting around you.”
After the contest, the new shirts will be sold for $5 apiece. One dollar from each purchase will go to local charity or to a University-benefited function.
The contest’s winners will each get two front row tickets and a limo ride with their guest to the KU-MU game at Arrowhead Stadium, as well as $100 cash, a tailgate package and other prizes.
There will also be prizes for each top-five idea contributors.
Ian Lang, Wichita senior and president of the Interfraternity Council, and Hannah Love, Dodge City senior and student body president, are among the student leaders on the T-shirt committee.
Lang said 1,000 T-shirts with the new slogans would be given away at various KU athletic events. The shirts, Lang said, will be ready at least one week before the Nov. 24 game between Kansas and Missouri at Arrowhead Stadium.
“The Muck Fizzou shirt is five years old,” Lang said. “It’s old. Let’s get something new. We have a creative student body. I think as a consensus we decided we want to display our pride in something that truly portrays the University we attend. It’s about sending the right message.”
Lang called the shirt’s selling price “college affordable” and said student leaders wanted to see a percentage of the price go back to University-related functions.
Stafford said the group’s intent for a replacement to the “Muck Fizzou” shirt is something “clever but not vulgar.”
“Every great rivalry needs a T-shirt, I think,” Stafford said.
He used Oklahoma’s slogan against Texas as an example: “Bevo: It’s what’s for dinner.”
Edited by Chris Beattie
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Comments
University to replace ‘Muck Fizzou’ slogan
you can make as many new shirts as you want...i'm still rocking my MUCK FIZZOU shirt to every KU-MU game. If ESPN doesn't want to film me, thats their decision. i will not be intimidated by the language Nazis in this country.
University to replace ‘Muck Fizzou’ slogan
Um... Muck Fizzou is a lot older than 5 years. I had that shirt 10 years ago at least, and a co-worker had one back in '88. So yeah...
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