BITB is stealing my heart.
Expanding on what I've been saying for years about the football game between the 2 schools? If the ku vs mu "rivalry" was so awesome, why were mu's visits to Lawrence and ku to Columbia hardly ever sold out? Why did it take the 2 teams actually playing for something to sell out Arrowhead . . . once? Most of the time when ku plays mu in football the game is attended by thousands of empty seats . . . but, it's a "HUGE RIVARLY".
Where else in college sports can one find decades worth of football games in a "HUGE RIVALRY" that never even register on the all time records crowd list for either school? Oh yeah, the excuse always was that when the two "huge rivals" played, they weren't that good, so nobody cared about those games. So in essence, it's really only a "Huge Rivalry" when both teams are really good. Only mediocre, only kind of good?? Not a "Huge Rivalry", just kind of a "rivalry". Both teams are bad . . . nobody cares at all.
The hatred of mu by ku fans runs so deep, and ku fans are so mad about mu leaving for the Big 12 . . . tens of thousands of ku fans showed up at Arrowhead this last year as empty gold and red seats.
BITB is spot on, the "huge" ku vs mu rivalry was conjured by the KC media.