I have a problem.
I'll be walking in the mall, covering a game, grocery shopping, etc., and I'll come across someone with the above logo on a shirt or baseball cap.
My senses start beeping, and I scream in my head, "MIZZOU!" The University of Missouri fight song plays in my head, and I believe I've just found a kindred fellow alumnus to befriend.
Wrong. What I generally find is a Murray High School fan. The Murray Tigers have long ago adopted the same colors and logo as Mizzou (I am not insinuating a rip off here or copyright infringement), and it trips me up every time. In a closer glance at the logo on the jacket of Ron Greene, Murray's boy's basketball coach, it appears the only difference might be their Tiger has an actual eyeball. I can't really tell.
Anyway, no offense Murray Tiger fans, but it's always a bit of a disappointment to discover you're not a Mizzou Tiger fan.
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We picked the wrong game to cover.
The Marshall teams played in a boys-girls doubleheader tonight with Murray's teams, and I traveled to Draffenville to only cover the first game, the boys game.
The decision was made mostly because of time constraints. I'm technically an hourly employee, and because of the strapped economy, I'm not allowed to work overtime — on or off the clock. We opted to send me to one game to get me out of the office early and quickly.
But we picked the wrong game.
The boys game, my game, was a bona-fide rout. The Marshals won 73-47. The girls game, however, was a thriller, going into overtime as I write this. The Lady Marshals won.
In picking which high school games we cover in any sport, we always try to pick games where the competition level will be high or district/region standings are on the line. Yes, we usually follow winning teams. Sometimes our guesstimations are wrong, and a team has a bad night and things end up in a blow out and I end up typing crazy box scores. Sometimes, our guesstimations are wrong, and a team has a stellar night and things become a lot more exciting.
Anyway, our apologies for not staying for both games.
2 comments:
Dusty,
Back in my day (MHS Class of '81), they used Missouri's old "M", similar to the "M" seen in MSU's bleachers.
You'll see a lot of high schools copying logos all over. Not even seeing our Linden (Ala.) High School Patriots play, you can imagine what their logo looks like. Mayfield Cardinals and Trigg County Wildcats? There you go.
Hope everything is going great with you!
Take care,
David Snow
Demopolis, Ala.
Dusty,
Back in my day (MHS Class of '81), we used the old Missouri "M" similar to the one seen in the MSU football bleachers.
You'll see high schools all over copying logos of collegiate and pro teams. You may have never seen our Linden (Ala.) High School Patriots play, but you can imagine their logo. The Mayfield Cardinals and the Trigg County Wildcats? There you go.
Hope everything's going OK with you!
Take care,
David Snow
Demopolis, Ala.
P.S. If it's any consolation, every time I see Missouri's logos, I think of Murray High School.
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