Mizzou releases awesome hype video to celebrate return of Border War against Kansas
The big news out of Missouri on Saturday is the return of the Border War football rivalry between Mizzou and Kansas.
On Saturday afternoon, Kansas announced a 4-game series against the Tigers, their former Big 12 rivals. The games will be played in 2025, 2026, 2031 and 2032 at campus stadiums.
As you can see below, Mizzou’s Twitter account posted a great hype video to celebrate the return of the big-time rivalry:
IT'S BACK ‼️#MIZ x #NewZou 🐯🏈 pic.twitter.com/OyTML1IRVG
— Mizzou Football (@MizzouFootball) May 2, 2020
Who could forget some of those iconic moments from Mizzou’s side of the rivalry? This time around, though, the venue will change. They’ll play the 4 games in Columbia and Lawrence instead of at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.
The important thing is that we’ll soon have the Border War back in our lives. It’s safe to say many fans on both sides are excited for the upcoming series.
Having these games on campus makes so much more sense, they never should have taken them off campus in the first place. Beat kU!
5000% agree
Surprised they wanna play us with all that a$$ whoopin we been doing
The peace sign was from K-State’s coach. And If Missouri would play anybody from the State of Kansas it should be K-State. But playing anyone from the State of Kansas, helps them and hurts Missouri,…. BIG mistake.
I don’t know about you, but a sold out stadium sounds pretty good to me. How often have we done that lately? A rivalry, and this is a rivalry in the truest sense of the word, doesn’t have to make sense on a strength of schedule level or anything like that. The fans want it and tradition demands it and it is the one thing that has been missing from our football and basketball schedules for years now. Beat KU.
This makes juvenile sense only if you grew up in Kansas City and had some high school football rivalries with Kansas schools.
Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, K-State, aTm, Iowa State, and Colorado were all better football rivalries than kansas.
Selling out the Memorial Stadium was not a good thing if it required saving tickets for several thousand kansas university fans, in years where Missouri fans would have bought all the tickets anyway. Did you ever look at the arm-pit Missouri fans had to go sit in for the away games in Lawrence? so not worth it.
Sorry, no, this is only a big deal to a few Missouri fans with low expectations for who to play and feel challenged by. The story of the cheat with Bert Coan says it all. kansas knew he was illegal, they knew he went to the all-star game with the booster (and probably more), they knew Missouri was headed to a National Championship, they played him even though the Big 8 refused to give them permission at a meeting. They had almost nothing to gain and
Missouri had everything to lose. This is the kind of low rent, low life, lack of standards, pathetic, self-hate, absent Conference pride, cheap mud throwing, slum-yelling at the neighbors, trash playing a game against Kansas amounts to. And it will never get cleaned up no matter how many times the contest gets repeated, reference the fainting goat basketball game. Respect yourself son. Have a back-bone and choose your associations better.
If you think only a few tiger fans want this rivalry restarted, then you are living in a fantasy land. You didn’t like the seats in Lawrence, so now you dont want to play them, please. These games will sell out in minutes and me and 80% of the fan base will be in line to do so.
Ozark, Wolfman doesn’t exactly have his finger on the pulse of Missouri football. He’s upset about things that happened back in the 60s, and trying to convince us it’s relevant. He can’t be helped, just an old curmudgeon who’s set in his ways.
Wolf is right about how every former big 8 team was a stark rivalry though. Kansas id big because of how many times they sucked and we played them last needing 1 more victory to be bowl eligible during the dark era between 1984 and 2003. And Kansas would snuff out the light at the end of the tunnel
Wolf is also right that except for this infamous rivalry no one would pay any attention to kansas in football.
This rivalry only lives in the hearts of those who were aware of the rivalry when it mattered. Mizzou vs KU to the current student means nothing. Maybe in basketball if the program picks up, but this is a dead rivalry. No longer conference rivals, it has the same weight as playing Illinois.
I’d agree with that. A 4 game series is basically microwaved leftovers. It’s a dead rivalry without an annual commitment. I think these upcoming games will be massively popular and when they sell out the stadiums, I think both schools will reconsider the possibility of an annual match up.
College football is diminished without tradition and rivalry.