Never before has the rivalry of Kansas and Missouri meant so much ( at least in football season) as tonights game in Arrowhead Stadium. Out of the blue the Jayhawks have posted an undefeated season. Missouri is coming in at 10-1. Who would have thought that back when the game was changed from a home game for the Jayhawks that it would come to this. ESPN is already predicted that the winner of this game will be the 1 ranked team in the country. Now I know it is still early but as an avid Jayhawk fan, football season has just been a fall reason to get outside projects ready for winter to watch the basketball season...not any more baby.
Now for outsiders reading this you may have you rivalries, Ohio State vs Michigan, Oklahoma vs Texas, but none go back as far as this midwest showdown. To know Misouri is to hate Missouri and vice versa....
KU football coach Pepper Rogers once gave Missouri coach Dan Devine the peace sign from the sidelines just to have Dan return only half the peace sign..
See what I'm getting at....but it goes back to the mid 1800's. I have attached a portion of an article of Quantrills Raid on Lawerence....
Quantrill's famous or infamous raid upon the sleeping town of Lawrence in the predawn hours of August 21, 1863, has been the subject of endless discourse and debate. As the foregoing ballad suggests there were those who regarded Quantrill as a hero and the burning of Lawrence as a good thing. The fact remains, however, that by noon of that fateful day Lawrence resembled a smoking funeral pyre beside the muddy Kaw. Nearly 150 male inhabitants were dead or dying, a large portion of the town's business and residential districts were in ashes and the faces of those who survived the slaughter bore mute testimony to the tragic scene
Now I know this is just a sporting event and that tomorrow all my Mizzou friends will still be friends but for one evening here in Kansas all I can say is...
ROCK CHALK..... JAYHAWK.........
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