What Do LSU and Mizzou Have in Common?

So one is a yankee and one a southerner...

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The name comes from a band of armed guards called the Missouri Tigers who, in 1864, protected Columbia from Confederate guerrillas during the Civil War.

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So, we're letting folks who fought against the southeast into the Southeastern Conference? Something doesn't feel right.

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That story put out by the Mizzou athletic department is completely contrived politically correct bullshite. Show me a single documented reference to Missouri Tiger militia unit and I'll eat my words. Until 1949, Dixie was Mizzou's fight song and they continued to play it until 1971.

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Yeah and who are their biggest rival.....The kansas JAYHAWKS. People at Mizzou don't hate Lawrence, KU and that name Jayhawks for a reason. Their hatred is over wars between the states of MO and KS not sports. I bet history depts at KU and Mizzou have a whole completely different view of the wars.

Reason why Mizzou and KU hate each other.....

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The early athletic matches between the University of Kansas and the University of Missouri are said to have helped aid both states in the healing process following the civil war. The athletic rivalry started off with a bang when the University of Kansas chose to name their athletic team the Jayhawkers (now Jayhawks), the same term that had been used to describe the unsavory assortment of outlaws, independent military bands, and rogue Union troops that had plundered and burned their way through western Missouri just 30 years earlier.

Over the years, the series has developed into one of the most bitter and hateful rivalries in college sports. Even the coaches have gotten into the rivalry. Former Kansas football coach Don Fambrough, when referred to a physician across the state line in Kansas City, Missouri, for treatment, exclaimed "I'll die first!"[2]: not to be outdone, Missouri's former basketball coach Norm Stewart would traditionally have his players stay in Kansas City, Missouri, before playing at Kansas, going so far as to require the team bus to buy its gasoline at a Missouri filling station and reprimanding players who ate in Kansas, as he did not want to put any money into Kansas' economy.

The 2007 football season brought the origins of the rivalry between the two states back into the spotlight. A t-shirt created by a Missouri alumnus gained national attention with its reference to Quantrill's Raid of 1863.[3] The shirt depicted the burning of Lawrence in 1863 following the raid of William Quantrill and his Bushwhackers against the Jayhawkers of Kansas. The image of Lawrence burning was paired with the word “Scoreboard” and a Mizzou logo. On the back of the shirts, William Quantrill was quoted, saying "Our cause is just, our enemies many." Some Kansas fans interpreted these shirts as supporting slavery. KU supporters returned fire with a shirt depicting abolitionist John Brown with the words, “Kansas: Protecting America from Missouri since 1854.”[4]

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By confederate guerillas they mean the Kansas jayhawkers

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c'mon man, it's the 21st century. it's ok to have some "token yankees" around. besides, southern missouri is very southern.

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Waaaaaaaay more southern than some parts of FLORIDA.