Which Mizzou moment hurts the most....

[tef54]

5th down
Nebraska’s “kicked” touchdown
Tyus Edney and UCLA
Tony Van Zant
The Porters (take your pick)
The 2008 Orange Bowl snub
The 2018 Kentucky football game
Feel free to add to the list. It’s been said that all schools have their nightmares. I’d argue we have had more than most. Is the campus built over an old Indian burial ground?

 

[Steven Herbs 1985]

Norfolk St
4th quarter 2013 sec title game
2nd half Big 12 title game 2007

 

[MIZsanity]

Can we save this for another day? Like, 20 years from now?

 

[BradN11]

We will never EVER see another MP Jr level prospect at Mizzou again...so I’m taking that one.

Also, Norfolk broke my heart in a way I’m still feeling

 

[mizzouced]

Norfolk St... We were legitimately good enough to win the championship that year... Didn't even make it out of the 1st round.

And IIRC, Norfolk St. hadn't made more than 7 3's in any game that whole season and was shooting like, 29% from 3 as a team... They made 10 3's and shot 52% from 3 in that one game... That shit will sting my heart forever.

 

[afroge]

1960 kU football game. If that's not #1, I don't know what is.

 

[Nbee]

Norfolk St still hurts for sure. But man I'll never get over the way we lost at AFH in the last game at ku. I don't think I've ever wanted Mizzou to win a game as bad as I did that one. All those memories of them closing the shoe box with a W could have been eradicated with that W. I'm still convinced Billy boy would still be playing us if his last game against us was an L.

 

[tef54]

Norfolk St
4th quarter 2013 sec title game
2nd half Big 12 title game 2007

This list keeps growing.......I guess I blocked those memories.

 

[nohawks]

Leave me alone. I want to engage in self pity.

Maybe a thread about your favorite Mizzou moments ?

Nah....

 

[tef54]

Leave me alone. I want to engage in self pity.

Maybe a thread about your favorite Mizzou moments ?

Nah....

Unfortunately we have more negative moments than positive. But I’m all for a thread that lists our glory moments.

 

[dreamlaw]

Norfolk St
4th quarter 2013 sec title game
2nd half Big 12 title game 2007

These are top of my list, because those teams had a chance for it all.

Add 1990 end of season collapse and 1st round loss to Northern Iowa.

 

[malvern]

Kicked ball. I was in my twenties, we hadn’t beaten them in twenty years, and it kinda came out of no where competing with them and then seriously having them on the ropes. I worked at a residential center for kids and by the end all the kids were watching it with me. It was like 5th Down all over again. There was no one to blame this time....it was just luck.

 

[mufootball1]

1960 kU football game. If that's not #1, I don't know what is.

This!

 

[MIZ25!]

Norfolk and the last game at Allen were 1A and 1B

 

[417 Tiger]

Norfolk. We were loaded that year

 

[msmmufan]

2012 @ kU - I always wonder, if we beat them at allen fieldhouse they would have different opinion on playing us again.

 

[maaco30]

Van Zant was the MPJ of the day getting hurt in an all star game hurt really bad. great kid from what I learned later.

 

[FiremanDanKC]

Norfolk St is my #1. That's the worst one in the time I can remember. To the guy who said we'll never see another #1 recruit, Van Zant was before my time but I've seen DGB and MPJ. There will be others. My hot take on this is if I could go back and get any local recruit we missed I wouldn't choose Porter. I'd take Tyler Hansbrough. We all knew Porter was a one year player. Hansbrough was a 4 time all American.

 

[blackgold74]

1960 football season. 10-1 finished #5 in the polls.
Beat Oklahoma first time in over a decade.
Lost to KU, in final game, knowingly using an ineligible player Bert Coan, against us.

9-0 going into that game, NC in our grasp, lost 7-23.
then beat #4 Navy.
if the polls were voted after the Bowls, might have jumped Ole Miss,
we had 3 top 20 wins to their 1.

 

[philconnors12345]

2012 at Allen Fieldhouse. Blew a 20 point lead in the second half. If we win that game we would have won the Big 12 regular season title and likely would have gotten a 1 seed in the tourney and would have never played Norfolk State. It was also our last game ever vs ku. Just a terrible, terrible loss. At least we won the '07 football game vs them in KC, but man, would have liked to have won that game at Allen Fieldhouse in 2012.

 

[M-I-Z-P-C-F]

I was in boot camp for the Norfolk State game so I never got to watch or even find out what happened until a few weeks later when I got mail. And I still feel that punch in the chest when I see it.

 

[blackgold74]

2012 at Allen Fieldhouse. Blew a 20 point lead in the second half. If we win that game we would have won the Big 12 regular season title and likely would have gotten a 1 seed in the tourney and would have never played Norfolk State. It was also our last game ever vs ku. Just a terrible, terrible loss. At least we won the '07 football game vs them in KC, but man, would have liked to have won that game at Allen Fieldhouse in 2012.

It was hard to win that game playing 5 on 8 in the second half.

 

[bj4mu]

5th down
Nebraska’s “kicked” touchdown
Tyus Edney and UCLA
Tony Van Zant
The Porters (take your pick)
The 2008 Orange Bowl snub
The 2018 Kentucky football game
Feel free to add to the list. It’s been said that all schools have their nightmares. I’d argue we have had more than most. Is the campus built over an old Indian burial ground?

Tyus Edney and Norfolk St are at the top. Kicked ball not far behind. Losing to OU in E8, OU in Big12 Final, last game at AFH, Peeler’s 40+ at AFH, Auburn in SEC C., kU football in ‘08 at Arrowhead... long list.

 

[mizzoucobra]

Hiring Kim Anderson.

And yet, it was worse than anyone could've expected at the time.

 

[philconnors12345]

It was hard to win that game playing 5 on 8 in the second half.

for sure. especially when phil pressey got tackled on a layup attempt at the end and no foul was called, would have changed the outcome of the game.

 

[philconnors12345]

Hiring Kim Anderson.

And yet, it was worse than anyone could've expected at the time.

I had a month long meltdown on here about it and ended up getting banned and I was still only projecting NIT-type teams. How wrong I was.

 

[blackgold74]

Barbara Uehling.

 

[Brad Wilson]

5th down
Nebraska’s “kicked” touchdown
Tyus Edney and UCLA
Tony Van Zant
The Porters (take your pick)
The 2008 Orange Bowl snub
The 2018 Kentucky football game
Feel free to add to the list. It’s been said that all schools have their nightmares. I’d argue we have had more than most. Is the campus built over an old Indian burial ground?

For me, the 2008 Orange Bowl snub made me the most angry because it meant that both kU and Illinois were playing in BCS bowls and Mizzou was not. I remember the signs Illinois fans had at Braggin' Rights game that year, "Its a BCS Party and you're not invited." Both those programs used their invites to claim they were better than Mizzou.... at least Illinois got their ass kicked in the Rose Bowl.

The Tyus Edney game might have been the most instantly painful. My wife and I watched the game in a bar in Geneva Illinois. We were the only legit Mizzou fans in the place but, as the game wore on, all the casual fans began cheering for the Tigers. Everyone was behind Mizzou at the end, but when Edney hit that shot, everyone else in the bar shrugged their shoulders and moved on... I couldn't. I could only think about how a trip to the Sweet Sixteen following the previous year's Elite Eight appearance could really solidify the Tiger program.

The kicked ball game was heart breaking but also weirdly uplifting in a way... it was awesome to see a vocal, boisterous, sold-out crowd in Memorial Stadium for the first time in over a decade. And watching Mizzou go toe-to-toe with the Nubs, you knew the Tigers were their equal. Simply put, even though that game was a loss, walking out of the stadium I felt that "big time college football had finally returned to Columbia"... never had a loss made me optimistic before. And that optimism was validated as that loss vaulted the Tigers into the Top 25 ... has that ever happened again?