Written by Matt | 12 October 2007

Holy shit, it’s finally happened. The Cardinals have won a World Series, football returned to St. Louis (and made it to two Super Bowls), the Spice Girls rose and fell, Britney Spears went from crazy hot to hot to just crazy, Sleezy married the same girl twice. While all of that has happened in the past 14 years, Mizzou has never been on GameDay…until Saturday.

The gods are finally smiling on Missouri as they set sail in their murdered out bus to Norman for the college football game o’ the week. I realize over the past 14 years that GameDay has hit the roads to campus locales, our teams have sucked. We’ve gone through some awful teams. Corby Jones never got any lovin’ from Corso. Brock Olivo didn’t spike his hair with Herbstriet, and Jimmy Kinney never rubbed up with Fowler. But all that changes now.

Many of you have probably been too drunk to wake up at 9:30.. Or you might live in a part of the state without cable/satellite/running water to know that ESPN existed. I got to experience GameDay and all it’s grandier earlier this season for the USC/Nebraska game in Lincoln.

I showed up at 7am dressed as a Trojan riding a horse. As a grown man being productive in the workforce and a member of society in the United States, it took a lot of drinking the night before and the day of to keep up the façade of being dressed up as a chubby stunt double for ‘300’. I ended up being despised by all Husker fans in attendance when I impaled one of their corncob hats on my sword during the show. I don’t know if I made it onto ESPN since my TiVo shot craps on me. I wasn’t trying to make it to air, just to piss off the degenerates in the crowd. And that’s what GameDay is about.

Over the years, the biggest part of GameDay have been the signs behind the crew. “Herbstriet’s my baby daddy”, “Corso knitted my sweater vest”, “Nick Nolte for President”, and other classics. If you’re going to be behind the set, make sure you have a good sign made up, even if it’s just “Corso Sucks”.

The most popular part of the GD show comes when a coach that can’t pick a game for his life, could never coach, and only screams at the camera is featured. No, Lou Holtz is still in studio. Lee Corso always pops something on his head to signify his pick of the big game. Since Mizzou’s never been involved in the big game, I’d suggest a Truman head. Corso’s picks are usually pretty pathetic, and yes, he picked the Huskers to roll last week. So…how’d that work out, Lee?

So if you’re going to GameDay in Norman, be loud, be drunk, and have a sign if you’re behind the crew. Don’t be an asshole to Oklahoma fans. They are usually pretty respectful of us. Most importantly, no matter which team you’re for, boo Corso. He sucks. And hope he chooses Boomer Sooner.

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