Calling all Mizzou fans! Wake up!.....get excited about your team---make it worthwhile for sportswriters to cover Tiger football. I've waited all my life for my Mizzou Tigers to be a legitimate contender in college football--and now that they are...the majority of sportswriters are overlooking them b/c there is simply not a large enough fanbase to sell to regardless of their on the field success. Missourians and Mizzou alums need to get a good dose of home state pride and start cheering on their team. If fans would get a little more excited it would create a little momentum--a little bit expectancy of the program, players, and coaches. A program needs that to succeed--to be a year in, year out contender. In the south (SEC country) college football is bigger than the NFL, bigger than anything and that's why their teams are (while sometimes overrated) always national contenders. Have a little pride in your team--raise the bar of expectations, and think of the possibility of a new college football dynasty!
As the tension builds toward tonight's big 12 championship game between Mizzou and OU.......I have to sound off on my frustration with how the bloggsters, posters and even supposedly objective sports writers are so biased and closed minded against any "non-perenial super" power football program (i.e. Mizzou) that would dare to recruit well, practice well, play well and threaten to break down the time honored barriers of BCS elitism.
I can handle the bloggsters and posters---most are die hard fans---they aren't required to be objetive.
What I can't believe is that proffessional sportswriters would #### their integrity and write stories that undermine the level of play that a smaller fanbase program produces as it competes among elite college football programs; and cater to members of snoby (sec/bigten) fanbases by suggesting that teams like mizzou don't belong in contention for the bcs title. Money talks indeed--so instead of celebrating a school that has done everything right and is competing at the highest level of college football---they write what will be read by the big market fanbases---criticism and bias.
