The final score is not indicative of how much Missouri really dominated the game. My Missouri Tigers beat up on the Kansas Jayhawks last night at Arrowhead Stadium in KC 36-28. Chase Daniel led the Tiger attack that had KU down at one point 21-0. The Tigers defense also played well and put the point on the exclamation mark at the games end when it sacked KU's quarterback for a safety. The Tigers out gained the ugly little birds in rushing and passing. Chase Daniel was 40-49 and made big plays repeatedly to keep Mizzou drives alive.
I can go on and on but anyone who saw the game knows Missouri dominated the evening's proceedings.
I read all three of the media accounts in Kansas City, Columbia and St. Louis and the Columbia Tribune had far better coverage of the game then the KC Star or St. Louis Post. If you would like to read the Trib's coverage click here.
As a Tiger fan what makes the victory even sweeter is that not only are the Tigers going to be ranked number one in the nation and play in the Big XII Championship game next Saturday with a possible shot at the national title, but the Yellow beaks are not going to get to experience any of it. Poof...just like a puff of smoke. Their perfect season is gone.
Three years ago I sat in the cold mist at Faurot Field as a bunch of loudmouth chickenhawks chanted "This Is Our House" as their team beat the Tigers. It pissed me off then and I knew one day there would be a payback. Well last night was the payback and revenge is sweet. Live with the disappointment you little Kansas bitches.
November 25, 2007
November 22, 2007
Happy Thanksgiving to You
I hope you had a great Thanksgiving Day. I sure did. We got away from the traditional turkey, dressing and all the stuff that goes with it. Instead we had smoked chicken, potato salad and corn on the cob that I also grilled on the Weber kettle. For dessert we did the traditional Pumpkin pie.
All in all it was a good day. I had a great time with family and it was in my opinion better than all of the gigantic Thanksgiving dinners we have done in the past.
On another note, I have a HN update. You say what is a HN? It's Hoosier neighbor.
This afternoon they were assembling kids crap in the front yard even though the temperature was only 38 degrees. Then coming home this evening I notice the HNs had their front storm door and screen door wide open. I thought have they all gotten high and hot? No they were apparently trying to burn down the house. As I put the car in the garage I heard this "beep...beep...beep, beep...beep...beep". What the heck I thought? No worries. The reason the door was open was so heavy smoke could come pouring out the open doors. Dumb jackasses.
As Borat might say..."Nice".
All in all it was a good day. I had a great time with family and it was in my opinion better than all of the gigantic Thanksgiving dinners we have done in the past.
On another note, I have a HN update. You say what is a HN? It's Hoosier neighbor.
This afternoon they were assembling kids crap in the front yard even though the temperature was only 38 degrees. Then coming home this evening I notice the HNs had their front storm door and screen door wide open. I thought have they all gotten high and hot? No they were apparently trying to burn down the house. As I put the car in the garage I heard this "beep...beep...beep, beep...beep...beep". What the heck I thought? No worries. The reason the door was open was so heavy smoke could come pouring out the open doors. Dumb jackasses.
As Borat might say..."Nice".
November 18, 2007
Some Thoughts...
Well, here it is the Sunday before Thanksgiving and I can't believe how quickly the year is going past us. I am proud of my Missouri Tigers and their latest win. Yesterday the Tigers blasted Kansas State 49-32. They were a little flat but they played well enough on offense to score at will against K-State. Bottom line is the Tigers are now ranked number 3 and four in the BCS rankings. Mizzou-Rah!!!
The Rams won again today. Their second straight win after starting 0-8. San Francisco is lame. When you come down to having Trent Dilfer as your quarterback you know you have a problem. Still, for the Rams a win is a win.
Have you watched the local TV spots in your market? If you have a Hardees or Carl's Jr. in your area have you seen their lame commercials? The latest is watching some surfer dude eat a big hamburger. The moron that wrote the commercial must have been on drugs. The spot is an insult to anyone with a brain.
Finally, the hoosier renters that have moved in next door to me have pulled yet another hoosier stunt. They have put up Christmas lights six weeks before the Holiday. I came home on Friday night and they had up a lot of lights. Yeech. But, then on Saturday night they stood outside two hours after it was dark and put up more lights. The display is vulgar. I hope these losers move out when their six month rental contract is over. But for now I have to look at it every time I pull into my driveway. It is ugly. I hope they stop now but my guess is they will keep adding to this eyesore.
The Rams won again today. Their second straight win after starting 0-8. San Francisco is lame. When you come down to having Trent Dilfer as your quarterback you know you have a problem. Still, for the Rams a win is a win.
Have you watched the local TV spots in your market? If you have a Hardees or Carl's Jr. in your area have you seen their lame commercials? The latest is watching some surfer dude eat a big hamburger. The moron that wrote the commercial must have been on drugs. The spot is an insult to anyone with a brain.
Finally, the hoosier renters that have moved in next door to me have pulled yet another hoosier stunt. They have put up Christmas lights six weeks before the Holiday. I came home on Friday night and they had up a lot of lights. Yeech. But, then on Saturday night they stood outside two hours after it was dark and put up more lights. The display is vulgar. I hope these losers move out when their six month rental contract is over. But for now I have to look at it every time I pull into my driveway. It is ugly. I hope they stop now but my guess is they will keep adding to this eyesore.
November 14, 2007
Mis-Informed Commentary
This past week the baseball beat writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch took it on himself to attack the Missouri football program and it's fans. I decided to take the writer, Joe Strauss to task. Here is his original article followed by my email to him a day later.
Football Lite is the reason fans don't flock to MU By Joe Strauss ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 11/07/2007
If a No. 7 national ranking doesn't confirm Missouri's rise as at least a passing football power, Tigers coach Gary Pinkel offered irrefutable validation earlier this week. Pinkel defined his fan base.
"You have the seventh-ranked team in the United States of America. If we don't have 65,000, something is wrong," Pinkel (said) Tuesday night.
No matter if it's the first day of deer hunting season or the arrival of some gawdawful Texas A&M team and its tipsheet-selling coach, the Tigers' head whistle-blower believes fans should measure up to their team and attend Senior Day at Faurot Field on Saturday.
Pinkel could argue that an 8-1 team featuring an entertaining offense and a quarterback who deserves mention among the 10 most deserving Heisman Trophy candidates should enjoy overflow commitment from a long-starved fan base.
"This game is important," said Pinkel, who has yet to identify one as unimportant. "Fans make a difference. Great fans don't care who you play. They don't care if a team hasn't won a game or they've won all the games. They really don't care. It's more about their team and the team they're supporting."
Apparently great fans don't care that they've traditionally been fed a steady diet of non conference mush to complement the weaker division within a mid level power conference.
"Gimme a heapin' helpin' of that Illinois State (burp) to go with some Iowa State, then wash it down with some Western Michigan. The more directional and 'Football Championship Subdivision' schools the better."
Most of all, this is about self-perception. Mizzou makes no pretense about having established itself as a big boy. In many ways it still seeks an identity that mid level Southeastern Conference and Pac-10 schools long ago achieved. (Sorry, Ole Miss long ago landed in the SEC's Relegation League.)
An unscientific August survey of BCS conference schedules performed in the Busch Stadium press box concluded that Missouri and Kansas boasted the two weakest slates. The dividend is a top 10 ranking for each. The drag is that Pinkel must dare his fan base to show for Senior Day against a down-and-out conference foe.
"I think it's important first to build a culture of winning, a culture of being competitive, a culture of success," offers athletics director Mike Alden. "We're not talking about one year. I think you can revisit that at some point down the road."
Credit Alden for honesty. He makes no pretense about puffing up a 2008 home schedule that begins with Southeast Missouri, Nevada and Buffalo or that entices SMU for a home-and-home in 2009-10. El Tigres have three remaining open dates for 2010, four for 2011 and 2012, and five beyond that. Right now, Alden can't see deep enough into the future to predict a change in thinking.
"I think philosophically our intention would be to stay the course," Alden says, rightly noting the value of the Tigers' annual season opener against Illinois without savoring the value of, say, a home-and-home against Tennessee, Michigan or UCLA.
Alden mentions I-AA (the dreaded "FCS"), the WAC, the Sun Belt, Conference USA and the Mountain West as providing non conference filler for the foreseeable future. Tastes great, less filling.
Without huge non conference games, chances for national television exposure diminish. Recruiting remains confined. Give Chase Daniel the same numbers in the SEC and he doesn't have to buy a ticket to the Heisman announcement. Give him a bust-out performance against Penn State in September and maybe he takes the thing home.
"I think you have to consider that when you look at national recruiting," Alden concedes. "But are you winning? Regardless of whom you're playing, are you winning? It doesn't matter if you're playing Arkansas State or Arkansas. It matters that you win."
Alden believes the Internet and the crush of game day broadcasts make network coverage less relevant. "If you're winning, people are going to find you," he says. "I think the key is you're competitive and you're winning. That itself gives you a chance to get out there. It's not as critical to be out in Eugene, Ore., to have a greater presence."
But isn't greater presence exactly what Coach P. asks for this weekend?
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Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 2:13 PM
To: 'JStrauss@post-dispatch.com'
Subject: Your column shows that you are a biased man with no perspective or history
Hello Joe Strauss,
I have just finished reading your post on the stltoday.com web page attacking Missouri football and it’s fans and have to ask, first of all where does a guy who writes baseball get off attacking the football program of the state’s largest university? Do you really believe your lack of knowledge, perspective and history of Missouri athletics won’t be observed by the readers of your publication? Give us a break. We live here and there are more grads of Mizzou in the St. Louis area than any other institution. Your buddy Bernie Miklasz, a “Baltimore-Sun” carpetbagger, called for an easier schedule years ago. Both of you seem to be memory challenged. If you were just trying your hand at humor you failed miserably.
Stop showing your bias against the Missouri athletic department and fans. Miklasz, wrote the same column two weeks ago and was laughed at by Missouri fans the day of the Iowa State game. Don’t you have anything better to do than parrot Miklazs' lame column?
Stick with “covering” the Cardinals, and as long as you feel free to criticize Mizzou, I have a little constructive criticism for you too. Try getting off your butt and going into the visitor’s clubhouse every now and then. Baseball fans would like to see what the other team is thinking and not just read you quotes which are readily available on Fox Sports following every game. Oh, yeah and the visitors quotes are available on the Internet every day by going to the out of town publication covering the game. The Post-Disgrace may have a monopoly on the newspaper business in this town, but you have competition all over the net. Maybe it's why your circulation continues to decline in every metric employed.
If you have a justification for the excuse you call commentary let me know. Otherwise, I will attribute it to the bias of your managers or lack of effort on your part.
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Strauss responded in a personal email by thanking me for writing and telling me he was sorry he had challenged me "provincially".
Football Lite is the reason fans don't flock to MU By Joe Strauss ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 11/07/2007
If a No. 7 national ranking doesn't confirm Missouri's rise as at least a passing football power, Tigers coach Gary Pinkel offered irrefutable validation earlier this week. Pinkel defined his fan base.
"You have the seventh-ranked team in the United States of America. If we don't have 65,000, something is wrong," Pinkel (said) Tuesday night.
No matter if it's the first day of deer hunting season or the arrival of some gawdawful Texas A&M team and its tipsheet-selling coach, the Tigers' head whistle-blower believes fans should measure up to their team and attend Senior Day at Faurot Field on Saturday.
Pinkel could argue that an 8-1 team featuring an entertaining offense and a quarterback who deserves mention among the 10 most deserving Heisman Trophy candidates should enjoy overflow commitment from a long-starved fan base.
"This game is important," said Pinkel, who has yet to identify one as unimportant. "Fans make a difference. Great fans don't care who you play. They don't care if a team hasn't won a game or they've won all the games. They really don't care. It's more about their team and the team they're supporting."
Apparently great fans don't care that they've traditionally been fed a steady diet of non conference mush to complement the weaker division within a mid level power conference.
"Gimme a heapin' helpin' of that Illinois State (burp) to go with some Iowa State, then wash it down with some Western Michigan. The more directional and 'Football Championship Subdivision' schools the better."
Most of all, this is about self-perception. Mizzou makes no pretense about having established itself as a big boy. In many ways it still seeks an identity that mid level Southeastern Conference and Pac-10 schools long ago achieved. (Sorry, Ole Miss long ago landed in the SEC's Relegation League.)
An unscientific August survey of BCS conference schedules performed in the Busch Stadium press box concluded that Missouri and Kansas boasted the two weakest slates. The dividend is a top 10 ranking for each. The drag is that Pinkel must dare his fan base to show for Senior Day against a down-and-out conference foe.
"I think it's important first to build a culture of winning, a culture of being competitive, a culture of success," offers athletics director Mike Alden. "We're not talking about one year. I think you can revisit that at some point down the road."
Credit Alden for honesty. He makes no pretense about puffing up a 2008 home schedule that begins with Southeast Missouri, Nevada and Buffalo or that entices SMU for a home-and-home in 2009-10. El Tigres have three remaining open dates for 2010, four for 2011 and 2012, and five beyond that. Right now, Alden can't see deep enough into the future to predict a change in thinking.
"I think philosophically our intention would be to stay the course," Alden says, rightly noting the value of the Tigers' annual season opener against Illinois without savoring the value of, say, a home-and-home against Tennessee, Michigan or UCLA.
Alden mentions I-AA (the dreaded "FCS"), the WAC, the Sun Belt, Conference USA and the Mountain West as providing non conference filler for the foreseeable future. Tastes great, less filling.
Without huge non conference games, chances for national television exposure diminish. Recruiting remains confined. Give Chase Daniel the same numbers in the SEC and he doesn't have to buy a ticket to the Heisman announcement. Give him a bust-out performance against Penn State in September and maybe he takes the thing home.
"I think you have to consider that when you look at national recruiting," Alden concedes. "But are you winning? Regardless of whom you're playing, are you winning? It doesn't matter if you're playing Arkansas State or Arkansas. It matters that you win."
Alden believes the Internet and the crush of game day broadcasts make network coverage less relevant. "If you're winning, people are going to find you," he says. "I think the key is you're competitive and you're winning. That itself gives you a chance to get out there. It's not as critical to be out in Eugene, Ore., to have a greater presence."
But isn't greater presence exactly what Coach P. asks for this weekend?
-------------------------------
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 2:13 PM
To: 'JStrauss@post-dispatch.com'
Subject: Your column shows that you are a biased man with no perspective or history
Hello Joe Strauss,
I have just finished reading your post on the stltoday.com web page attacking Missouri football and it’s fans and have to ask, first of all where does a guy who writes baseball get off attacking the football program of the state’s largest university? Do you really believe your lack of knowledge, perspective and history of Missouri athletics won’t be observed by the readers of your publication? Give us a break. We live here and there are more grads of Mizzou in the St. Louis area than any other institution. Your buddy Bernie Miklasz, a “Baltimore-Sun” carpetbagger, called for an easier schedule years ago. Both of you seem to be memory challenged. If you were just trying your hand at humor you failed miserably.
Stop showing your bias against the Missouri athletic department and fans. Miklasz, wrote the same column two weeks ago and was laughed at by Missouri fans the day of the Iowa State game. Don’t you have anything better to do than parrot Miklazs' lame column?
Stick with “covering” the Cardinals, and as long as you feel free to criticize Mizzou, I have a little constructive criticism for you too. Try getting off your butt and going into the visitor’s clubhouse every now and then. Baseball fans would like to see what the other team is thinking and not just read you quotes which are readily available on Fox Sports following every game. Oh, yeah and the visitors quotes are available on the Internet every day by going to the out of town publication covering the game. The Post-Disgrace may have a monopoly on the newspaper business in this town, but you have competition all over the net. Maybe it's why your circulation continues to decline in every metric employed.
If you have a justification for the excuse you call commentary let me know. Otherwise, I will attribute it to the bias of your managers or lack of effort on your part.
--------------------
Strauss responded in a personal email by thanking me for writing and telling me he was sorry he had challenged me "provincially".
November 05, 2007
And They're Rushing Christmas Too
I noticed the first one a week ago Sunday. I saw a couple over the weekend and they are all over the place this evening.
They are Christmas commercials. The first one was Garmin, then Lowes. Then it was Sears and K-Mart. And now some darn cold remedy medicine. Give us a break. Let's get past Thanksgiving before we start worrying about Christmas. I will boycott these companies this year if possible. People are going to do what they want regardless of what the ad types tell us.
You know I just read the above post and I sound like a grumpy old man. )-;
They are Christmas commercials. The first one was Garmin, then Lowes. Then it was Sears and K-Mart. And now some darn cold remedy medicine. Give us a break. Let's get past Thanksgiving before we start worrying about Christmas. I will boycott these companies this year if possible. People are going to do what they want regardless of what the ad types tell us.
You know I just read the above post and I sound like a grumpy old man. )-;
November 03, 2007
The Fall is going by way too fast
Autumn is my favorite time of the year, the cooler weather, football and the changing scenery. So how can it be November already? It seems like it was just Labor Day and the fall was just beginning.
And there was another sign on my car yesterday morning that we are moving quickly towards Winter. I had to scrape frost from the windshield for the first time this season. I also found myself without an ice scraper and had to pick a credit card to do the trick. I used a casino card from a property I haven't visited for quite a while. The card did a fine job. But, the bottom line is...Winter is on it's way.
And there was another sign on my car yesterday morning that we are moving quickly towards Winter. I had to scrape frost from the windshield for the first time this season. I also found myself without an ice scraper and had to pick a credit card to do the trick. I used a casino card from a property I haven't visited for quite a while. The card did a fine job. But, the bottom line is...Winter is on it's way.
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