Rivalry Shirts Get Uglier, Indeed!
From Travis Robinett at the University Daily Kansan:
* Have the Phog Blog come to you! * Subscribe to CommentsApparently some Missouri fans think it’s OK to make T-shirts that glorify a band of murderous racists.
Their cause was slavery. Their enemies were abolitionists. They took the lives of many without regret and wanted to keep freedom away from men like Gus Rigdel, who in 1950 was Missouri’s first black student, and Norris Stevenson, who in 1957 was Missouri’s first black football player.
If Quantrill’s politics had prevailed, these two would have been in shackles instead of earning college degrees. The same goes for every black student at Missouri today, especially those who are NCAA student athletes. Can fans cheer them on by celebrating Missouri’s racist history?
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November 16th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
What little credit I would give to Misery fans, I would assume that 99% of them would find that shirt goes too far. As easy as it would be to create a t-shirt pointing out the fact that Kansas leads Missouri 1-0 in civil wars, it is so much more fun to beat them in football and remind them they have basketball season to look forward to.
November 16th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
The shirts use the official Mizzou logo. I imagine that whoever made the shirts will soon regret the decision to use that logo.