People are getting upset over this Missouri/Kansas game. Especially those in Lawerence Kansas :)
Under the picture is the word “Scoreboard,” and under that is the Missouri Tiger logo. On the back, according to the post, is Quantrill’s slogan: “Raise the black flag and ride hard, boys. Our cause is just and our enemies many.”
Author Nathan Fowler writes: “You can have your Ohio State v. Michigan or Alabama v. Auburn, but the last time I checked nobody from Columbus ever went to Ann Arbor and systematically executed every man they could find while burning the town to the ground. And certainly nobody made t-shirts later celebrating that fact.”
Fowler also notes a new KU shirt on the market, as KU officials and some student groups are trying to get students to stop wearing the “Muck Fizzou” shirts.
The new shirts show a picture of abolitionist John Brown, with the words: “Kansas: Keeping America safe from Missouri since 1854.”
Wow, I am in nirvana. College Football and opening up old wounds as to the War Between the States. What is there not to love? I am thinking of great possibilities. Perhaps for the Peach Bowl some Yankee Team and their fans can go on mock burning of Atlanta!!! The possibilities are endless. All for education of course. If LSU plays Kansas in the Super Dome the KU Coach can dress as General "Beast" Butler on the sidelines. Very appropriate for New Orleans. Les Miles be General Pemberton, the Confederate General that was a yankee from Penn. Great times.
Go to the always great Wizard of Odds that has much much more on these crisis that is developing between these feuding states!!
As an aside that the last pre-war President of LSU was W.T. Sherman.
ReplyDeleteYes, I know the school has changed names job titles, and focus sense that time but I always found that a fascinating tidbit.
That is true. IN fact many people do not know it but his son Father Sherman is buried in the Jesuit Cemetary here in Grand Couteau Louisian.
ReplyDeleteI am also happy to report that finally a Building might be named after him at LSU