The deeper meaning to October 23rd 2010.

Electricity. In one word, thats how you would describe this weekend...not just saturday night at farout field but the entire experience. The quad was absolutely rocking when the gameday crew came on tv. Multiply that times 100 and thats what you got at the stadium saturday night. Pre-game was louder than most games. When the tigers came out of the gate...the crowd shot off like a cannon, and seconds later when we ran the opening kickoff back it was the loudest, most amazing moment I have ever experienced. October 23rd, 2010 will always be remembered by the Mizzou faithful. Not all because we beat any #1 team in the country, but because who it was.

Let me take you back to October 11th, 2003. This is when the program jumped the first hurdle towards becoming legitimate. In the first time in 24 years, we beat the University of Nebraska. I credit that night as the night the momentum started. Then we beat them in 2005, then 2007, then 2008. The thing is part of the game of football is completely mental, before 2003 we didn't think we belonged on the same field as Nebraska. We kept jumping hurdles since that night in 2003, but Saturday night at the Zou was one of the biggest ones yet. As discussed in a previous post...they knocked us out of a championship game, they beat us 19 out of 20 times. Up through the Chase Daniel era we didn't think we could hang with the traditional power that is Oklahoma or Texas. This team thinks they can play with anybody in the country, which is really good.

Many of the students rushed the field because Oklahoma was number 1, not really knowing the true history behind the game. That is not why I rushed, I rushed because that night started a new era in Missouri Football, I rushed because we finally got the monkey off of our backs, I rushed because this is our year, this is our time. The 71,004 people that witnessed the game live and the 18,000 that saw College Gameday will never forget the noise, the insanity, the nervousness, and the sheer ecstasy that was October 23rd, 2010.

The Road to Glendale stops in Lincoln, Nebraska this weekend as the Tigers battle the Huskers in a game to surely decide the Big XII north title. Ill have more about that later this week...Go Tigers!