University of Kansas football fans are being asked to stop yelling an obscene chant at games after kickoffs.

Coach Mark Mangino will carry the appeal to fans in a video that’s expected to be e-mailed to students and shown on the video board before Saturday’s game against Colorado. The video follows renewed efforts to stop fans who chant, "Rip his" expletive "head off."

The University Daily Kansan called a meeting last week to discuss ways to stop the chant, which can be heard by children in the stands and TV audiences.

Kansas students had differing views on the issue. Olathe sophomore Paul Bickford tells The Lawrence Journal-World that the chant motivates the team and "it gets people riled up."

But Shawnee junior Grant Treaster said he believes fans "can come up with something better than that."

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