KU vs. Mizzou - the most heated rivalry no one has ever heard of?

**RaiderWahoo0105** · November 13th, 2007, 12:34 AM

QUITE POSSIBLY - Link - Wow...

With both teams all of sudden being good we might see something special out of this game.

**UTVols2** · November 13th, 2007, 08:32 AM

I grew up a huge Mizzou Basketball fan so I know a little something about the rivalry but you are right, I don't think there are many who know how bad Kansas is hated in the show me state. It's more of a basketball rivalry than a football rivalry until now.

Heck I didn't know it went back that far and just exactly what happened, man that was brutal.

**imported_mega** · November 13th, 2007, 09:13 AM

I wish Mizzou would get it together in basketball. I had/have alot of respect for Roy, but Bill Self can get ran over by a bus for all I care.

**sup-rbeast** · November 13th, 2007, 09:55 AM

That is quite possibly the most ridiculous story I've ever heard trying to tie crap that went on brfoe and durning the Civil War to a sport that wasn't even around back then. That is about like trying to tie a Skins-Panthers game somehow to the beginning of the civil war at Ft. Sumter....OR a VT_WVU game to John Brown's execution at Spears Ferry..lol. Just because neither of the schools are high profile, and really haven't much to put on a T-shirt bragging of football dominance, AND the fact that the Big 12 is a VERY mediocre conference that no one but the polls really seem to care about (unless your name is Oklahoma, Nebraska, or Texas) on a yearly basis, there is no need to go cite events that happened 150 years ago (years before football was EVER PLAYED) as the basis for a rivalry. This story is someone grasping at straws. (IMO Kansas doesn't go undefeated).

**RaiderWahoo0105** · November 13th, 2007, 10:01 AM

Actually that is the basis of the OSU vs. Michigan rivalry. There was a border war over the town of Toledo way back when the state lines were fighting for expansion. I think there was a bloody massacre involved so the hatred between Ohio and Michigan goes back to pre-football and carried over into football.

**sup-rbeast** · November 13th, 2007, 10:08 AM

Yeah, but still...relating events that happened between to places to a sport that came along afterwards IMO is just a way to blow up the rivalry. I mean, the post is interesting and all, it's just that I think it gets ridiculous when they try to tie stuff like that in. No one will be going to OSU-Michigan wanting revenge for an actual massacre...they just want a win over their rival. If historic wrongs make a rivalry...eveyone has a rivalry with nearly everyone they play..lol.