<table> </table> LAWRENCE | John Larson wants to run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, and Micah Brown imagines a life making movies.</p><p>Some of the Kansas seniors will continue playing football after this season, but the majority will open doors that no longer lead to a locker room. For those Jayhawks, today&#8217;s final home game against the Texas Longhorns will be a mixed bag of emotions. Sadness because their careers are about to be over. Joy because the world outside the Anderson Family Football Complex will soon be theirs for the taking.</p><p>&#8220;When you&#8217;re in season, KU football, you see about three places,&#8221; said Larson, a senior defensive end out of Pembroke Hill. &#8220;You see the campus for your classes, you see the Burge Union, then you see here (the football complex). That&#8217;s about it.&#8221;</p><p>Larson wants to see more. This spring, he is going to Ronda, Spain, where he will participate in a language immersion program. He&#8217;s always wanted to learn Spanish.</p><p>&#8220;It will be a great chance for me to get out and see the world,&#8221; Larson said. &#8220;I&#8217;ll be able to travel to Morocco, Portugal, Amsterdam, Paris, Italy.&#8221;</p><p>Every Jayhawk senior will be completing a journey as this season comes to a close. Larson and Brown, a senior who plays on three special-teams units, were former walk-ons who have since earned scholarships. Brown had a scholarship to join the track and field team at KU, but he gave it up to play football.</p><p>&#8220;The biggest thing I&#8217;ve learned is what perseverance does for you,&#8221; said Brown, a native of Kearney, Neb. &#8220;A lot of people told me I&#8217;d never get to play. I was 160 pounds coming from track to football, and they&#8217;re like, &#8216;Man, why are you doing this? You have a track scholarship.&#8217; I got knocked out every day in practice by people. You get back up. It eventually can pay off.&#8221;</p><p>It was all worth it for Brown in the Orange Bowl last season. He received a pass from running back Brandon McAnderson on a fake punt and took it 22 yards for a first down on the way to a Jayhawk victory that was just as improbable as Brown&#8217;s contribution.</p><p>&#8220;That was a complete God thing,&#8221; Brown said. &#8220;I can&#8217;t take credit for that. We had never practiced the play ever. All of a sudden, I look up and he threw it to me. That play was never designed to go to me, and I caught it! That was another miracle.&#8221;</p><p>There are so many memories, and they will all rise to the surface today. Larson and Brown can taste the future &#8212; Larson plans to go to medical school, and Brown will be exploring a career in video production &#8212; but today is about celebrating the past and living in the moment.</p><p>&#8220;I love the game of football,&#8221; Brown said. &#8220;I am going to miss it a lot. I love running out on the field. I don&#8217;t take any game for granted.</p><p>&#8220;I feel like I&#8217;ve invested a lot of time into this place. I wouldn&#8217;t take that back, but it is exciting to have a new challenge ahead of me and pursue some of my film stuff and have time to do that.&#8221;</p><p>Larson couldn&#8217;t agree more.</p><p>&#8220;Somebody was asking me earlier if the waterworks are going to come out,&#8221; Larson said. &#8220;If that ends up happening, it will be more about me &#8212; not wanting for another season or wishing I could stay here forever &#8212; but more just being appreciative for what I&#8217;ve gotten from this university and how it&#8217;s changed me these last five years. All good things come to an end, and I think this is a part of my life that I will obviously never forget and keep with me.&#8221;