Highlights and Lowlights

My plan for today was to share the highlights of Saturday's exciting trip to Columbia to watch our Jayhawks play Mizzou. Unfortunately, the trip wasn't very exciting at all and there were very few highlights in the game. I'm sure many of you are wondering what in the world could have possibly possessed us to travel to hostile Tiger territory to watch a mediocre Jayhawk team that has struggled with consistency this year. Besides the obvious answer (that we are extremely loyal and dedicated fans), we just had such a fun time at the previous week's victory over K-State, we decided a road trip with friends to support our boys in blue would be an exciting adventure. Even though we never found any friends who could go along, Chad and I still left at 6 a.m. on Saturday and drove the 165 miles to Columbia with high hopes.

While the game actually stayed relatively close all the way into the 3rd quarter, KU never actually looked very solid. They could only run the ball and their defense was like a sieve. Even so, we were only down by 3 points and were about to get the ball back when one of our guys jumped offsides, giving Missouri a first down when they should have been punting. That was pretty much all she wrote. After that, Missouri outscored us 22-0. Ugh. I can't even remember any actual highlights to share.

I guess one thing that was pleasantly surprising was that we didn't encounter any rude or offensive Missouri fans. We sat with a fairly large KU contingent during the game, but we walked around a little at halftime and the Tigers were surprisingly well behaved. Since we are normal KU fans and generally despise people from Mizzou, we half expected to be accosted at some point while we were there. Maybe Chad will be a little less prejudiced against MU grads because of our positive experience. :) By the way, Missouri's stadium is quite beautiful, although there are some traffic flow issues in certain areas. We didn't see much of the rest of the campus, but at least this structure was really very nice.

Upon our return on Saturday, we were thankfully comforted by KU's incredible win in basketball over the the #1 Florida Gators! Since the game started way too late for us old people and then went into overtime, I was struggling to stay awake by the end and started taking power naps during the time outs. We almost gave the game away at the end of regulation after making some stupid fouls, but we hung on to win 82-80. If you didn't get to watch the game and want to see some highlights, click here. The local sports guy isn't so great, but at least you can see a few of the bright spots from the evening!