Joe College Sells a Very Odd T-Shirt
It says "Kansas" on the front with a graphic on the back that says, "Frank Martin Mows My Lawn".
You be the judge of what that's supposed to mean.
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Or really weird sexual innuendo
Just Wabash already!
by AlwaysaWildcat on Feb 7, 2010 2:38 PM CST up reply actions
I'm pretty damn sure
there’s no intended sexual innuendo there – because that’d be, like you said, really weird.
Surgeon General's Warning: K-State-Mizzou basketball may increase the risk of high blood pressure. Please consult your doctor prior to watching any of these games.
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
actually, there’s a lot wrong with that.
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Extremely poor taste
I wasn’t a big fan of KU going after Joe College but a shirt like that just might change my mind.
I might be in the minority of KU fans, but I like Frank Martin. The only thing I don’t like about him is that he let’s the players call him Frank but that’s a relatively minor thing. Guess I’m old-fashioned in that I’d prefer that players called him Coach.
I'm on the Frank Martin bandwagon...
he’s a little high strung, but I think he’s a fun, passionate coach and he’s always selling the Big 12 whenever I see him.
As far as the shirt…I think what it’s implying is in very poor taste and unfortunately they’ll probably make some money of the crap.
52 Conference Championships!! Holy Hell...Good Luck with That!!
Yeah, this can't be held over the heads of KU fans...
except those that decide to buy the shirt. Besides, it’s a rip-off of the “Zambrano mows my lawn” shirts that Cards fans wear when playing the Cubs. Which is also racist, but what can I say, it is St. Louis…
It would be different if the shirt played on something in Frank’s control (his stare, his suits, the yelling, whatever), but to pick on a guy’s cultural heritage? Especially a heritage he embraces and promotes? That’s just distasteful.
www.bringonthecats.com
Especially when he is a Hispanic
who has worked his way up to be head coach in Division I basketball.
Instead of settling for manual labor, like the stereotype so crudely suggests.
Really, that makes it even more offensive, when you think about it.
Disgraceful.
Joe College has made like one remotely clever t-shirt ever. And now they’re resorting to racism. Well done.
What’s worse will be all the morons who actually buy and wear the damn thing.
To be clear, I'm not bashing KU on this...it's all Joe College
I know that they’ve been kind of a martyr around here due to their legal issues with Lew Perkins, but this is in very bad taste.
Maybe they’re hard up cash after the lawsuit, but this isn’t the way to go. If anything, all it’s going to do is make the KU AD more upset with them due to how it reflects upon the university and the folks who may buy it and wear it to sporting events.
Again, maybe I’m reading into it too much, but pretty much anyone that’s read it has caught the innuendo.
Bring on the Cats
"Without getting into specifics, my exit involves a McFlurry machine and a video tape of risque commercials from overseas." -- Jack Donaghy
I took the side of Joe College when KU took legal actions
but now I could see why KU wouldn’t want any part of their school associated with that company. Shame on them. Disgusting.
Surgeon General's Warning: K-State-Mizzou basketball may increase the risk of high blood pressure. Please consult your doctor prior to watching any of these games.
It doesn't even make sense...
I did not know Cubans were known for lawn care. But maybe i’m not getting “it”.
The people who came up with this shirt
probably make no distinction between Mexican and Cuban (or Puerto Rican or Haitian, etc etc.). Brown people mow lawns. That’s all they need to know.
As one GPC poster put it:
Imagine the reaction in Lawrence if our fans show up in the fall wearing shirts that say:
“Turner Gill picks my cotton.”
Yeah, it’s kinda like that.
I'm going to disagree that it would be funny
I think it’s funny that someone came up with it as an analogy to the Joe College shirt, but that’s about it. Maybe that’s what you meant, or maybe it’s not.
We'll carry the banner high!
Bring On The Cats
by TB on Feb 7, 2010 9:35 PM CST up reply actions
As a response to the shirt about Martin
I don’t know if that kind of humor has ever been funny. I hope the KSU vs KU rivalry doesn’t degrade into that kind of trash.
Bo Pelini
builds my comfortably equipped, mid-sized sedan.
Hail to the Purple, Hail to the White
Wildcat in spirit, Wildcat in fight
Hail Alma Mater from sea to sea
Onward forever, Hail Victory!
Mack Brown
does my taxes.
Surgeon General's Warning: K-State-Mizzou basketball may increase the risk of high blood pressure. Please consult your doctor prior to watching any of these games.
Bob Stoops
is my co-pilot.
Hail to the Purple, Hail to the White
Wildcat in spirit, Wildcat in fight
Hail Alma Mater from sea to sea
Onward forever, Hail Victory!
Dan Hawkins
You know on second thought, I probably shouldn’t do this one…
Surgeon General's Warning: K-State-Mizzou basketball may increase the risk of high blood pressure. Please consult your doctor prior to watching any of these games.
Doc Sadler
is my doctor like Dr. Pepper is a doctor.
Surgeon General's Warning: K-State-Mizzou basketball may increase the risk of high blood pressure. Please consult your doctor prior to watching any of these games.
Bill Self
takes a penny, but never leaves a penny.
Surgeon General's Warning: K-State-Mizzou basketball may increase the risk of high blood pressure. Please consult your doctor prior to watching any of these games.
Scott Drew
watches reruns of the Golden Girls while he eats his morning oatmeal.
Surgeon General's Warning: K-State-Mizzou basketball may increase the risk of high blood pressure. Please consult your doctor prior to watching any of these games.
Bill Synder
probably dated your grandma before he was married.
Surgeon General's Warning: K-State-Mizzou basketball may increase the risk of high blood pressure. Please consult your doctor prior to watching any of these games.
Rick Barnes
is a cat person.
Surgeon General's Warning: K-State-Mizzou basketball may increase the risk of high blood pressure. Please consult your doctor prior to watching any of these games.
Joe Paterno
rides in a house suspended by balloons.
Hail to the Purple, Hail to the White
Wildcat in spirit, Wildcat in fight
Hail Alma Mater from sea to sea
Onward forever, Hail Victory!
by MadCat on Feb 8, 2010 11:36 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs
Hail to the Purple, Hail to the White
Wildcat in spirit, Wildcat in fight
Hail Alma Mater from sea to sea
Onward forever, Hail Victory!
this whole string is pretty damn funny.
52 Conference Championships!! Holy Hell...Good Luck with That!!
So how many replies is this now?
Surgeon General's Warning: K-State-Mizzou basketball may increase the risk of high blood pressure. Please consult your doctor prior to watching any of these games.
Oh, man, it cut it off!
Try reposting as a new comment at the bottom.
Hilarious that we have so many replies that that even became a problem…
If you haven't figured it out yet
I’m bored at work, and thus replying to these in reverse order to see if I can get the damn thing to boomerang all the way back to the left margin.
SB Comment Art!
Mack Brown would be an awesome accountant
So down to earth, and he’d probably work pro bono just for fun.
Wow Bracket. Wow.
I got excited that there were going to be 15 new Coach (Whatever the hell these things are called) – but now am disappointed.
Surgeon General's Warning: K-State-Mizzou basketball may increase the risk of high blood pressure. Please consult your doctor prior to watching any of these games.
Mwahaha
And in response to your comment above: Way too many.
(Didn’t respond above b/c it would disrupt the flow. wink)
Here's the deal
I don’t like Frank Martin. I don’t like his sideline demeanor. I don’t like coaches that do nothing but scream at refs the entire game. I don’t like his ill-fitting suits. Most of all, I don’t like how he seems determined to turn college hoops into Pat Riley’s Knicks teams of the 90s- this shouldn’t be wrestling.
But I just found out about this shirt, and I’m ashamed of any fellow Jayhawk that would purchase something like that. It wasn’t cool when the Cardinals fans did it for Zambrano, and it isn’t cool now. I’m not one of those overly-PC type people. When it comes to shock humor, I have only one rule: be funny. If it’s not funny (like this shirt), then it’s just an excuse to be offensive or racist, IMO, and shouldn’t be said. And it especially shouldn’t be profited from.
I would totally buy a “Mack Brown sold me my timeshare” shirt, btw.
"Here are our top priorities: recruit, beat Missouri, recruit, win the North, recruit, win the Big 12, and in most cases if you win the Big 12 then you're playing for a National Championship. And then we're going to recruit."
by KennyGregoryRockThaCradle on Feb 10, 2010 7:08 PM CST reply actions
Looks like...
… They pulled the shirt. Good.
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