a little history lesson about Missouri

Posted on: January 5, 2018 at 11:45:00 CT

And for the comments about Mizzou not being Southern or that we are Yankees, here are Mizzou’s historical southern ties: One of the stars on the Confederate flag is for Missouri (voted to secede; Union troops invaded and set up a Union Government). The 8 counties around Columbia (where Mizzou is located) are called “Little Dixie”. The county next to Columbia has never has officially re- joined the “Union” after the Civil War and is proudly called the “Kingdom of Callaway”. The Missouri Waltz played at in the pregame and between the 3rd and 4th quarters has these words: Hush-a-bye ma baby, go to sleep on Mommy's knee, Journey back to Dixieland in dreams again with me…“Dixie” was Mizzou's unofficial fight song (along with confederate flags waved at the football games when Mizzou scored) until the late 1950’s; this changed when Mizzou became integrated and Mizzou's coach at the time (the legendary Dan Devine) started recruiting African Americans and he requested that Dixie not played and Confederate flags not be waved…also Mizzou had not played Iowa in football since 1904 (until the our Bowl game in 2010); all had to do with Iowa having an integrated squad and Mizzou walking off the field. Mizzou’s oldest rival “was” kansas (the second longest college football series in the country) and the hatred goes back to the Civil War era… Kansas fans used to yell “slavers” and hold up signs depicting Mizzou fans as slave owners. Even the mascot name “Tigers” come from the name of the militia group that protected Columbia from marauding bands of Union “Jayhawkers-Red Leggers” who were killing, raping and pillaging western and central Missouri towns (i.e. see the movie Outlaw Law Josey Wales). The kansas football team used to wear red stockings only one game a year: for the Mizzou game (red socks were retired until they pulled them out for a "herritage" uniform game this year).

Edited by nippermo at 12:20:17 on 01/05/18