A long time coming
“We’ve been waiting a long time for this,” said former Tiger defensive guard and linebacker Bob Luther today. Luther, along with his brother and nephew, came to see if the team can do something it hasn’t done since he played in 1969: win a conference championship.
The Luthers and other Mizzou alumni packed the San Antonio Convention Center for a tailgate/rally sponsored by the alumni association. There was music, there was food, and there was a lot of speculation about tonight’s game.
Brock Hessing told stories of his playing days under Dan Devine in the late 1950s. He recounted the locker room scene after a particularly bad loss to Oklahoma:
“We sat there the biggest part of an hour. Our uniforms had dried completely while we sat there in silence. Well, he came in and said, ‘To you seniors, I promise you that in two years when we come back to Norman, we will beat Oklahoma, and we will dedicate the game to you.’ Exactly the way he promised it, it played out … I think Gary Pinkel and Chase and the whole team are going to do the same thing for all alumni at the University of Missouri tonight.”
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