Parachutists to practice Thursday night for drop-in at Saturday’s game

Saturday’s Kansas University football game against Colorado will feature a pre-game parachute drop, KU spokesman Todd Cohen said Thursday.

The group is scheduled to begin practice at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Cohen said.

The parachutists are the same group who performed last year at the Nebraska home football game, and plan to jump out of an airplane that is 3,500 to 4,000 feet in the air.