The first is the Obsessed Patrick Mahomes Fan. You need fake fairy wings from the dollar store, a plastic football helmet, and a red shirt with paper cutouts for the name and number. The halo is chicken wire spray painted gold and glued to the helmet.
Next comes the Human Tumbleweed, which the writer calls easy because tumbleweeds are everywhere in Lubbock. Glue random twigs and branches to a brown shirt you already own. Then there is the Walking Data Center, a nod to months of political candidates on TV supporting or condemning data centers.
The pitch is simple. Costumes lose their appeal as you age, unless alcohol is involved, so these are easy crafts on the cheap. The data center outfit is a design the kids can help build. The tortilla ghost adds a bonus, since you always have a snack on you.
Texas Tech banned the throwing of tortillas at home games, and the writer says folks were devastated. The writer skips the push pins and calls them highly unadvised. Nobody banned the ghost, though.