Grimis
Scrapple
  
   
     
 
 
Since: 11.7.02
From: MD
Since last post: 753 days
Last activity: 550 days
|  #1 Posted on 5.10.04 1244.50 | Instant Rating: 7.29 | MoronicOriginally posted by ESPN.com/AP
Out of respect for U.S. troops fighting overseas, Missouri and Kansas are changing the name of their sports rivalry from "Border War" to "Border Showdown."
"We feel that in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, and the ensuing events around the world, it is inappropriate to use the term 'war' to describe intercollegiate athletics events," Kansas athletic director Lew Perkins said Monday. "We need to be more sensitive to the men and women who defend our country for real."
The schools have competed in sports for more than a century.
"Our rivalry with Kansas is a very important thing to many people, but it certainly pales in comparison with what is taking place overseas, and this is the right thing to do," Missouri athletic director Mike Alden said.
Unlike other college rivalries referred to as wars, the Missouri-Kansas competition actually traces its roots to armed conflict. In the 1860s, tensions between Missouri, a slave state, and Kansas, a free state, led to bloody clashes along the border.
In the most celebrated confrontation, Confederate sympathizers led by William Quantrill sacked Lawrence and burned most of the town to the ground.
News accounts from earliest football games between the schools recount fights breaking out in the crowd between descendants of Union and Confederate soldiers.
Does anybody other than liberal college administrators think soldiers are offended by this? Especially considering that this rivalry has lasted through six other major wars?!?
 | | Promote this thread! |           | Mayhem
Scrapple
Since: 25.4.03
From: Nashville, TN
Since last post: 4 days
Last activity: 3 days
| #2 Posted on 5.10.04 1342.19 | Instant Rating: 4.37 |
Why does it have to be "liberal" college administrators?
 | Grimis
Scrapple
Since: 11.7.02
From: MD
Since last post: 753 days
Last activity: 550 days
| #3 Posted on 5.10.04 1343.16 | Instant Rating: 7.29 | Originally posted by Mayhem
Why does it have to be "liberal" college administrators?
Are there any other?
| Jaguar
Knackwurst
Since: 23.1.02
From: Phoenix, AZ
Since last post: 599 days
Last activity: 599 days
| #4 Posted on 5.10.04 1347.33 | Instant Rating: 6.61 | Colorado's administration doesn't seem very liberal to me. The jackasses.
-Jag
The only Presidents I respect are dead ones. | JoshMann
Andouille
Since: 17.11.03
From: Tallahassee, FL
Since last post: 1776 days
Last activity: 1774 days
| AIM: |  |
| | | Y!: |  |
|
| #5 Posted on 5.10.04 1414.40 | Instant Rating: 4.59 | Originally posted by Grimis
Originally posted by Mayhem
Why does it have to be "liberal" college administrators?
Are there any other?
The administration at Florida International always struck me as where the escaped German officers ended up. Put it this way: every time student publications spit out anything it was a struggle of Dufresne-Warden Norton proportions.
Get busy graduating, or get busy dying.
[sidenote and getting back on-topic] Missouri alum Kellen Winslow Sr. had no comment. 
(edited by Blanket Jackson on 5.10.04 1528)
I knew I smelled that odd combination of fear and baby powder
| messenoir
Summer sausage
Since: 20.2.02
From: Columbia, MO
Since last post: 30 days
Last activity: 50 min.
| AIM: |  |
| | |
| #6 Posted on 5.10.04 1951.55 | Instant Rating: 2.89 | Well, this way we won't have to talk about the Tigers blowing up here in Missouri, as they lose another big game.
Or shooting themselves in the foot.
Or how their defense got blown away.
We want to avoid all this kind of talk, and simply get to the hanging our heads after another Missouri team underperforms.
Go team pride! The Cubs did this to me, btw. | redsoxnation
Scrapple
Since: 24.7.02
Since last post: 2 days
Last activity: 18 hours
| #7 Posted on 5.10.04 2014.30 | Instant Rating: 5.27 | In Basketball, it definitely is a border war. In football, it is more like Lichtenstein battling Luxembourg.
The Public Demands: Bring Back The Kaiser. | The Thrill
Banger
Since: 16.4.02
From: Green Bay, WI
Since last post: 5 days
Last activity: 21 hours
| #8 Posted on 6.10.04 0823.31 | Instant Rating: 4.25 | 
Does this mean the Texas/Oklahoma "Red River Shootout" will now be called the "Indigenous People's Waterway Competition?"
Star wipe, and...we're out.
Thrillin' ain't easy.
THE THRILL
ACW-NWA Wisconsin Home Video Technical Director...& A2NWO 4 Life!
(Click the big G or here to hear the Packers Fight Song in RealAudio...or try .AU, .WAV or .MIDI!)
| Corajudo
Frankfurter
Since: 7.11.02
From: Dallas, TX
Since last post: 8 days
Last activity: 1 day
| #9 Posted on 6.10.04 0851.26 | Instant Rating: 6.85 | Originally posted by The Thrill
Does this mean the Texas/Oklahoma "Red River Shootout" will now be called the "Indigenous People's Waterway Competition?"
The Red River is the name of the river; so named because the clay/dirt makes the river (which serves as the border between OK and TX), well...red. This has nothing to do with indigenous persons.
Oh, and Texas is going to poleaxe Oklahoma. Just wanted to state it for the record. | Grimis
Scrapple
Since: 11.7.02
From: MD
Since last post: 753 days
Last activity: 550 days
| #10 Posted on 6.10.04 0856.26 | Instant Rating: 7.29 | Originally posted by Corajudo
The Red River is the name of the river; so named because the clay/dirt makes the river (which serves as the border between OK and TX), well...red. This has nothing to do with indigenous persons.
Yet that has stopped other kinds of PC outbursts how?
| raygun
Chorizo
Since: 24.7.02
From: winnipeg
Since last post: 2516 days
Last activity: 61 days
|  #11 Posted on 6.10.04 0938.23 | Instant Rating: 3.05 | Who does this name change hurt? Because it seems to me that stuff like this is better off ignored.
They don't push, don't crowd
Congregate until they're much too loud
Fuck to procreate till they are dead
Drink the blood of their so called best friend
| kazhayashi81
Potato korv
Since: 17.6.02
From: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Since last post: 2186 days
Last activity: 2136 days
| AIM: |  |
| | |
| #12 Posted on 7.10.04 1332.36 | Instant Rating: 2.95 | Originally posted by Corajudo
Oh, and Texas is going to poleaxe Oklahoma. Just wanted to state it for the record.
You forgot, they didn't fire Mack Brown like they should've. |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Thread rated: 4.56