Missouri Football: Why the Mizzou Bandwagon?

Yesterday, you became cool.  Well, actually Monday you made the life decision...we just geared you up yesterday.  Now the question is, "Why the Mizzou bandwagon?"

First of all, to have a bandwagon, a team must blow for a long time.  Check.  There has to be a quick turnaround of success (less than four years after sucking).  Check.  There also has to be a good chance of that success sustaining itself.  Check.

See, the largest of bandwagons—Red Sawx, Patriots, Cubs, Tampa Bay Rays, Celtics, USC, Notre Dame, and Duke—all sucked for a long time before success came.  Hell, with the Rays, this is the only time in their history they haven't sucked a fat one.

For bandwagoning purposes, I know it's hard to believe, but Mizzou was actually good for awhile.  That 'awhile' was in the '60s, when my parents were in high school smoking joints to Foghat Simon and Garfunkel.

Actually, our '07 season has been compared to, well...just watch this video.  And yeah, that's Harry Caray doing PxP for the Tigers.  Gross. 

Before that, the 'awhile' was in the 1930s.  Don Faurot was the coach then, and that was so long ago that Mother Nature was dating Father Time.

Needless to say, we sucked for a long time.

Times have changed, and Mizzou is becoming dominant.  That's why this bandwagon has more people on it than Sleezy's ex. 

There have been some ups and downs over the years, and really, a shitload more downs.  Since you started to claim that you've been a Mizzou fan for life on Monday, I'll throw a couple of bones your way.

Since we sucked for awhile, I'm going to limit this thing to only games in the post-1990 era that you need to know about in Mizzou's football past.

- Fifth Down (1990).  It even has its own Wikipedia page.  Plainly, we got screwed, which could be Mizzou's motto.  The Colorado Prairie Cows got an extra down, and Mizzou got effed.  Pretty simple, but on the fifth down, Colorado scored.  Colorado was ranked 12th in the country and was about to lose on the road to Mizzou.  Then it happened.  Game over.

- Flea Kicker (1997).  Another Wikipedia page dedicated to destroying me.  I remember watching this while in high school.  I was born to hate the Huskers, and I'm sure part of being bred that way has put me in Omaha now.  Karma, you skank, you.

Mizzou up on the No. 1 Cornies at home 38-31.  Corby Jones was on fire all game.  On a fourth down, Scott Frost tosses a lame duck rope (the only one I've ever seen) to Shevin Wiggins, who boots the ball to Matt Davidson.  Touchdown Cornies.  Remote meets TV in the Big Head house.

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