Nope.I'm talking about the rivalry game formerly known as the Border War between Kansas and Missouri.
Nothing like some good, old fashioned college football pettiness to get us started this weekend!For those who missed it, Kansas trolled Missouri via social media with a hype video before Friday's showdown with their longtime rival.It was your typical video — music, cool highlights, some corny voiceover.
The works.KANSAS RENEWS BORDER WAR RIVALRY WITH MISSOURI BY CALLING TIGERS 'EVIL,' INVOKING SLAVERY IMAGERYKansas Jayhawks students wear shirts that say Muck Fizzou before a college football game between the Missouri Tigers and Kansas Jayhawks on Sept.11, 2026, at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kan.
(Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)But this one had one extra element that nobody saw coming — depictions of slavery and the Civil War! That's right.Some intern on the Jayhawks' social media team decided to use the fact that Missouri was on the side of slavery during the Civil War as a focal point of the video, which, naturally, went mega-viral.Take a look:Amazing.
Poor taste? Perhaps.Just a bit.
But still, amazing.Over 12,000 reposts and 34 million views.Bad PR is still good PR, you know? Or something like that.Bold move by whoever green-lit that little number.
Casting themselves as the righteous "heroes" and Missouri as the "villains," complete with Civil War newspaper clippings and a cameos by Abolitionist John Brown and "Bushwacker" leader William Quantrill was certainly a choice by whoever put that video together.THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE.DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Eli Drinkwitz of the Missouri Tigers lines up in the tunnel before the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl between Missouri and Virginia at EverBank Stadium in Jacksonville, Fla., on Dec.
27, 2025.(Getty Images)Personally, I don't get offended by things that happened well over a century ago.
None of us were alive back then.Why get so worked up over ...