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Shouldn't have posted this thread. It's as much of a jinx as it ever was.
 
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The University of Missouri (Mizzou) is widely credited with holding the first homecoming game in 1911. The event was organized by Athletic Director Chester Brewer to invite alumni back for the annual football game against rival Kansas, featuring a parade, pep rally, and bonfire, culminating in a successful gathering of over 9,000 people.

The University of Kansas (KU) and the University of Missouri (MU) have a fierce sports rivalry known as the "Border War," which is deeply rooted in the violent Bleeding Kansas period and the Civil War era, with their respective mascots, the Jayhawks and the Tigers, stemming from pro-Union and pro-Confederate factions. The rivalry officially began with a football game in 1891
 
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IowaRam said:
The University of Missouri (Mizzou) is widely credited with holding the first homecoming game in 1911. The event was organized by Athletic Director Chester Brewer to invite alumni back for the annual football game against rival Kansas, featuring a parade, pep rally, and bonfire, culminating in a successful gathering of over 9,000 people.

The University of Kansas (KU) and the University of Missouri (MU) have a fierce sports rivalry known as the "Border War," which is deeply rooted in the violent Bleeding Kansas period and the Civil War era, with their respective mascots, the Jayhawks and the Tigers, stemming from pro-Union and pro-Confederate factions. The rivalry officially began with a football game in 1891
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Not the case with the Missouri Tigers: their basis - the Columbia Tigers - were a Union-affiliated militia whose job was to prevent Quantrill's Raiders (and essentially, the Jayhawkers from Kansas, both sides of whom raped, pillaged, and sacked numerous towns in Missouri and Kansas indiscriminately, basically things that would've been war crimes on both sides, had the Geneva Convention been in place) from doing the same to Columbia. The Missouri Tigers took their name from that militia.

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It is a brutal, brutal rivalry between the states, tracing its roots all the way back to Bleeding Kansas in the 1850s.
 
@Memento , this is what's brutal these days!
Kansas is kickin' that Tiger ass!
Sing it with me...
"Rock Chalk Jayhawk!"
 
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Loyal said:
@Memento , this is what's brutal these days!
Kansas is kickin' that Tiger ass!
Sing it with me...
"Rock Chalk Jayhawk!"
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No. We could lose by a hundred every game for my entire lifetime, and I'd never sing that song.
 
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