Sam Mellinger

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Surely you’ve seen the wonderfully terrible Ecokat video by now. If you haven’t, take a look-see. I’ll wait.

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Beautiful, right?

There is already a fake Ecokat Twitter account, who, apparently, counts the Morris twins among its 300-and-counting followers.

My biggest beef with this video is not that it exists but that it exists without any evidence of the fine folks at K-State realizing how ridiculous and hilarious the whole thing is. Funny’s great, but it helps to be in on the joke.

(I asked a friend — HUGE K-State fan — what he thought of Ecokat, and, as it turns out, he’s less than enthused:

“I am almost at a loss for words. Embarrassed, mad, confused, and worst of all not even turned on by the girl. At least make her smokin’ hot and then people can’t say crap. I mean how do people sit in a meeting and come up with this idea, create the design, and then all look each other in the eye and think, ‘I think we nailed it. Issue the release of EcoKat immediately. This is a lock!’ This makes whoever came up with the power towel idea a genius.

“Sadly enough, apparently we need to bring back that marketing guru. Who would have thought we would have missed the power towel marketing guy so badly? I wonder why K-State fans have so much inferiority complex? We fight all year long for respect and then we have to deal with this crap. I can only hope that this is all a sick joke.”)

All that being said, it’s probably not even the most cover-your-eyes of K-State videos and also not the worst video made about a local school.

In reverse order of what-the-H-were-you-thinking, and with the help of the fine folks on Twitter, here goes:

No. 4: Have you seen Norm Stewart rap? This would be worse, but, you know, it was the 1980s.

No. 3: Somebody should’ve punched Quin Snyder here. It’s amazing he didn’t win more games.

No. 2: Apparently KU fans need a tutorial on how to clap. This is just uncomfortable, for everyone.

No. 1: The K-State power towel video, starring Ron Prince and Josh Freeman. It’s just hard to believe this is real.

Comments

1. 

   Greg A

   1 year, 9 months ago

   If you go through all of the steps to get the house Eco-friendly, do they at least toss you a free David Coverdale wig to sport around town? I’m in…

2. 

   Jeff H

   1 year, 9 months ago

   A couple of friends and I (K-Staters all) were having a good laugh about this one last night…

   The worst aspect of this for me was, it looks like she was designed to appeal to the Power Rangers crowd but is being used to reach out to an adult demographic. And that hair… lol!

   I have no problem with the message (in fact, I’m all for it), but this is a case where the messenger definitely gets in the way.

3. 

   Jenks Addison

   1 year, 9 months ago

   “and worst of all not even turned on by the girl. At least make her smokin’ hot and then people can’t say crap.”

   I don’t think you should be turned on by the girl…pretty sure that’s a kid, dude.

4. 

   Jon Stephens

   1 year, 9 months ago

   You obviously forgot about the infamous Todd Reesing locker room dance… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKlgqdaIleA

5. 

   Brad H

   1 year, 9 months ago

   On the day aTm announces its departure from the Big 12, it’s nice to have something like this to unite MU and KU fans. :)

6. 

   Jeff H

   1 year, 9 months ago

   Brad, I don’t see any K-State fans disagreeing with you on this one (and I am one).

7. 

   David Conrado

   1 year, 9 months ago

   crap, looks they’ve taken the video down before I got a chance to watch… Am I missing much????

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