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Last night’s Kansas-Missouri football Border War was an outstanding game; unfortunately, the Jayhawks came up on the short end of a 36-28 score.

Taking nothing away from the outstanding play by Missouri, it doesn’t take a huge sports analyst to say that had the ‘Hawks rushed the ball better, had they not turned the ball over three times, and had they not missed two field goals, that the outcome could have been different. If Ifs and buts were candy and nuts, etc..

What struck me about the game was the fact that Kansas never gave up; Mizzou, whose season-long 4^th quarter domination was loudly trumpeted by ABC play-by-play men Brent “Why is he still on TV?” Musberger, and Kirk Herbstreit, was outscored 21-8 by KU in the final quarter in a comeback effort that just came up short. Brent and Kirk were so full of their insight that the cameras shifted to the booth with 3 or 4 minutes to go, and showed them discussing how Ohio State, LSU, and West Virginia could still get back into the BCS title game, and how Missouri had narrowly lost to Oklahoma¹ in an earlier game, and how they should all but present the crystal football to the Tigers right now. They then turned their attention to the field, where Kansas was methodically driving down for touchdowns, and remarked “Wait, we still have a game here.” Indeed.

So, with an 11-1 season, and excellent prospects of playing in some warmer climes on New Year’s Day, The Jayhawks still have had a season to remember.

And I’ll be rooting for Missouri next Saturday. And watching KU on January 1.

-k-

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