[size="7"]holla!!!![/size]

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dude, I am freaking bursting over this. I literally have no idea how to react -- blows my mind.

They are calling it Armageddon at Arrowhead, and I couldn't have put it better myself.

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[url]http://www.kansascity.com/sports/columnists/jason_whitlock/story/368904.html[/url]

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the rest of the country doesn't understand the border rivalry that is MU fucKU.

You watching it anywhere Toasty? Mizzou alumni.... MOUNT UP!!!

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oh definitely. Not sure where yet, but I'll definitely be going somewhere (but not Sportszone). You got any plans? We've gotta meet up for this one...

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[QUOTE=Jenks;545084][url]http://www.kansascity.com/sports/columnists/jason_whitlock/story/368904.html[/url][/QUOTE]

this is spot on, BTW 8)

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Dan, and a few other mizzou alum...we're thinking downtown for sure.

jbucks, side out, dbs, (hopefully not flannery's) etc.

never been to the new jbucks, heard decent things for game watching tho and it might not be as packed as the others.

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right on, I'll shout at you when it's getting closer. I'm seriously blown away. I booked a ticket to New Orleans just in case...

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This is what it's all about -- players helping to rip down the goalpost...

[img]http://www.mercuryserver.com/forums/imagehosting/7454743259a949d9.jpg[/img]

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dude....

[img]http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/sports.aol.com/fanhouse/media/2007/11/mizzoushirt07.jpg[/img]

wow. LOL.

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[QUOTE=Jenks;545239]dude....

[img]http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/sports.aol.com/fanhouse/media/2007/11/mizzoushirt07.jpg[/img]

wow. LOL.[/QUOTE]

dude. where can I get one? :lol:

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maybe you guys can win out and then get beat by LSU ;) woh would have thought mizzou and ku would be so good this year. i'm impressed.

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I don't think LSU is all that spectacular.

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...and all the Michigan talk has got to be a distraction...

[QUOTE] "That the Tigers and Jayhawks should meet on the football field with a possible national championship on the line is nothing less than a sign of the End Times.

"From a Big 12 version of the Book of Revelations:

'And there came a pair of beasts, the one striped and fanged and the other winged and fierce, if cartoonish. And, lo, these beasts were ranked -- second and fourth -- and arrayed one against the 'And from this field of conflict one will emerge and go forth and vie for the greater praise of men and adoration of women. Woe unto the loser, for him awaits only pain, regret and recrimination. Beat KU!'"[/QUOTE]

[url]http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=3120053&sportCat=ncf[/url]

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This game has so much riding on it... cant wait to watch on Sat... the atmosphere should be absolutely electric for this one... Im cheering for the undefeated though cause im just that kind of fan... great article too btw... college football games like this dont come around all that often so this has to be a must see

Cheers

:Cheerz:

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I wish there was a way to explain to non-Mizzou people how crazy this game is going to be. There are two things at work here:

[B][U]First:[/U][/B] During my lifetime, Mizzou has been vacillated between mediocre and bloody awful at football. KU has been about the same. When I was an undergrad, we were routinely beaten to a pulp by teams like Nebraska, Texas A&M, and Oklahoma. 60 and 70-something to nothing scores. Just demoralizing. That has been the standard. Despite that, we've had a couple of opportunities to win big games, only to see our hopes dashed in spectacular and unbelievable fashion.

For example, in 1990, we were playing number eventual National Champion Colorado at home. I was there. Miraculously, we were up as the game was coming to a close, and Colorado was threatening, needing a touchdown to win. The officials gave them 5 downs, and Colorado scored on a QB sneak on 5th down. Actually, whether he actually broke the plane is debatable, but that's kinda beside the point. Colorado was awarded the game, and we all stood in the stands, stunned.

Turn to 1997, when we played Nebraska at home, who were ranked number 1 at the time, as I recall. Again, I was there. This time, as we're on our way to victory, a fluke play where the ball was unbelievably kept alive by kicking it and caught on a shoestring for a touchdown allowed the Tigers to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. We had already begun ripping down the goalposts.

This is the life of a Mizzou fan. Close, but no banana, and always in a heart-wrenching way. I guarantee you that Tiger fans everywhere are experiencing a weird mix of joy, confusion, and apprehension -- we know we're supposed to be happy and we are, but we're not quite sure what it feels like to have a good football team and are afraid that something is going to happen to rip our hearts out yet again, in even more perverse fashion.

[B][U]Second:[/U][/B] This is Kansas, a team for whom we have a frankly unnatural and unhealthy degree of vitriol and venom. The MU-KU rivalry actually stems from the days of the Civil War when the Border War was literally a border war. When we play each other in sports, it makes no difference what the records are or who is "better" coming into the game. Totally unpredictable. For years, a coach could lose every game, but as long as he beat Kansas, everything was OK.

I guarantee you that if you were to ask any Mizzou fan if there is anything about this football season that they don't like, they will tell you that it is that Kansas has decided to have its breakout season at the same time and that KU is one-upping the Tigers by going undefeated and out-ranking us.

Whomever wins spoils the other's dream season, and you couldn't write it any better. It's going to be gangbusters at Arrowhead. So wish I could be there...

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Got this from a web site, adds to the luster of this series imo...

[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1][COLOR=#674e2f]Hatred goes back more than a century. Who leads the series? Depends whom you ask. There's the little matter of the 1960 game, which Kansas won but later forfeited because of an ineligible player. Kansas still counts the game as a win. Missouri doesn't. By most counts, each team has won 53 times, with nine ties.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

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Man, I remember going to an MU-KU basketball game one year during law school. KU was the more highly ranked team at the time, and Mizzou pulled out the upset in what was a truly classic, back and forth, win-at-the-buzzer type of game. As is often the case during these games, the "M-I-Z, Z-O-U" chant was replaced with "M-I-Z, FUCK-K-U."

There were some Kansas fans that were walking along side me as we were walking out of the building. The place was raucous, with the whole arena chanting "M-I-Z, FUCK-K-U" in unison as we walking through the concourses. When they began the walk out, they were smiling and laughing and throwing back some taunts of their own. By the time they hit the door, though, you could see legitimate fear in their eyes and they could not wait to get out of that building. Not that anything would have actually happened to them, but it was funny to see regardless. Priceless...

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So, only one more win and then you get a shot at ultimate glory! I hope they win the big 12, if for nothing more than I will choke on my own vomit if Ohio State gets to play for the championship again.

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this thing was huge... anywhere you went in KC you heard about it. tickets were scalping for $400+