I Lose a Friend and K-State Loses A Superfan Way Too Soon
My friend and K-State superfan Scott Thomas died early this morning after a battle with lung cancer. He was 50 years old. A mutual friend and I drove to see him in Hutchinson yesterday. He was aware we were there, but he could not really speak or communicate with us. It was hard to see him in that condition, but I'm glad we made the last-minute trip to spend some time with him. Just hours after we left he was gone. Scott and I met in the early '90s at K-State and he was a couple of years ahead of me in school. We both lived in Moore Hall and we sang in Men's Glee Club together. We traveled together on some east coast trips with Glee Club, one year to Washington DC. We had a concert in Lincoln, Nebraska the day before one of the K-State/Nebraska games and the Nebraska athletic department gave us free tickets to sit on the sideline behind the team benches. The problem was that it was hard to see the game from those seats. After about 10 or 15 minutes we decided
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