Ok, it’s Friday and posting will be lite today, I’m just tired, finishing up on a video project and doing some web maintenance.
I’m cranky because I did not get to play my video game last night.
For those of you who play NCAA Football I have reached the point where I have the A.I (Artificial Intelligence) maxed out.
Basically what that does is make all of the computers players’ super human which in turn makes the game sometime ridiculously hard.

As good as I am, on occasion I get my ass handed to me.
This is why when I speak to people who play and the say “I never lose” they are just full of shit.
Those of you who play “Dynasty” mode the point is to win a National Championship at least it is for me and it is virtually impossible to win EVERY game.
My current team, 4 national championships in 10 seasons, one of those seasons I was undefeated and did not win it all, therefore I LOST!

I am STILL trying to do something I have yet to accomplish, win 5 consecutive BCS titles. (4 titles in a row twice the entire time I have played NCAA football on X-Box)

I have a made up team, Western Louisiana stationed right on the boarder of Louisiana and Texas close to Arkansas great recruiting territory.
Anywho, success or failure after the completion of my contract I will retire this version of NCAA football and my X-Box and purchase the new version.

One of the fun things about this game is the attempt to make a small or a traditionally weak football school into a national champion, which brings me to the Kansas Jayhawks. I don’t want to jinx them, but the fact that this particular football program can possible play for the national championship is just amazing.

IF and I repeat IF they were to win it all, in my mind would easily eclipse the American Hockey team miracle against the Soviets. Because those of you who remember, they still had to play one more game to win it all.

This is the beauty of college football these days; the traditional powers are no longer able to dominate college football because recruits are smart enough to know that they don’t have to sit on the bench of a major power when they can go to a smaller competitive school and make a major impact on a program like Kansas.

If Kansas is not distracted and defeats Iowa State tomorrow and if Missouri beats Kansas State that will set-up the biggest football game in a much heated rival of Kansas and Missouri’s football history.

These two schools HATE each other big time; I can’t begin to tell you how much. Also there is real world history to go with this hate as this post from the AOL Fanhouse Blog written by Nathan Fowler last Monday will point out.
So if you follow college football, this game will in fact be a legitimate war on the field and a game worth your time for those of you on the east and west coasts.

My opinion in this particular story, well let me just say well it’s Missouri.
The shirt depicts the celebration of the murder of 180 plus innocent anti slavery people.
Wearing this particular shirt is as offensive as someone wearing a noose around their necks.
But I’m not going to go into that, people who know better and people with common fucken sense will denounce this particular shirt.

 You know what the best part of Kansas and Missouri having their best ever seasons at the very same time is? The entire nation will get exposed to what is possibly the most bitter and hateful rivalry in the country in all it’s glory (or shame, if you prefer). 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.

But that did happen in 1863 in Lawrence, KS when William Quantrill led his band of “Bushwackers” to the “Jayhawker” stronghold and went on a 4 hour rampage that would become known as the “Lawrence Massacre” - one of the ugliest episodes of the brutal 10+ years of fighting along the Kansas and Missouri border. While the Civil War has become the South v. the North in most people’s minds, the fighting in fact began as a violent guerrilla conflict between the abolitionists in Kansas and the slave holding Missouri settlers (more or less, like many guerrilla campaigns there were quite blurred lines at times). In many ways, those old wounds have never quite healed - Grandpa Simpson will be be deep in the cold, cold ground before he recognizes Missour-ah as a state, for example.

Those t-shirts seen above that some Missouri fans are making for the showdown at Arrowhead in two weeks are celebrating the Lawrence Massacre and in fact have Quantrill’s visage and slogan emblazoned on the back - “Raise the Black Flag and Ride Hard Boys. Our Cause is Just and Our Enemies Many”. Talk about going straight past normal levels of fan behavior and making a hard right turn into loony land, that might be the single most offensive gameday t-shirt I’ve ever seen. Kansas fans are now responding with t-shirts sporting noted violent Kansas abolitionist John Brown (who led a massacre of his own and the 1859 Harper’s Ferry raid that really kicked off the Civil War powder keg) with the slogan “Keeping America Safe From Missouri Since 1854″ - a mock-up of those t-shirts can be seen here.

This game is going to be played on a neutral site at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City - home to huge parking lots for tailgating and beer sales in the stadium during the game. It’s going to be for a berth in the Big XII Championship Game at the very least, and a shot at the National Championship at the most. Liquored up fans sharing the same parking lots and stadium, some who are celebrating their history of brutal violence against each other? Two fanbases who hate each other, with the chance to not only continue their own dream season but also to end the chance of glory for their rivals? Yeah, no way that doesn’t end up without at least a few folks in the slammer. It’s going to be a fun Saturday for the KCPD and Jackson County Sheriffs.

Article from the University Daily Kansan: Robinett: Rivalry shirts get uglier
Missouri’s new shirt contains message insulting to more than just Kansas fans

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