MIZZOU RAH!

Have already experienced one version of "the greatest Mizzou game of my life." I await the next one in a about an hour and a half. I have spent the week listening to the consensus that Mizzou will lose. We are ranked #1 in a game on a neutral field, but the bettors have put their money on Oklahoma. I have heard Ohio State fans have already booked hotels in New Orleans for the BCS Championship Game in anticipation that Oklahoma will win and restore some order to the traditional football powers universe. Having watched Mizzou lose to Oklahoma two months ago and watched them win every game since to even get to San Antonio, I am sure they can when this game. I am too much of a longtime Mizzou fan to actually say they will. I can promise you that if they do, I will be buying appropriate merchandise two days after Christmas when I visit my sister and her family and my brother who both live in Columbia. I will then sit in front of my lovely HDTV on January 7th in total shock with the DVR running so I can convince myself later that it actually happened. If the Mizzou Tigers are playing for the BCS trophy in January, I will expect other miracles to soon follow. Such as.... George W. Bush and Dick Cheney resign after a visit from Billy Graham shows them the error of their ways. President Pelosi immediately begins our withdrawal from Iraq and a change in Afghanistan of building the country first not bombing the guys we hire to build the country. My brother Larry will tell me he will vote for a Democrat for president even if it is Hillary Clinton. My sister Janet will decide she likes football. My friend David begins to make optimistic predictions of success for the Democrats and the overall improvement of the human condition.

I will be yelling loudly from my TV room for my beloved Tigers. As an undergraduate I was in the crowd when the Tigers shutout a Barry Switzer coached Oklahoma team. I still have the headline from the next day's paper with the picture of the goal posts going down. I skipped that, but did go on the field and congratulate a few large, exhausted young men. I would love to be in San Antonio tonight to yell myself hoarse in the latest "biggest game in Mizzou history."

Here's to having another "biggest game in Mizzou history" in a little over a month.

Go Tigers! Beat OU!