With all due respect to Year2, he buried the lead. When evaluating the open letter to Tiger fans recently sent by Missouri’s athletic director, the Team Speed Kills co-author focused on Mizzou’s efforts to keep pace financially in the SEC arms race, which is all well and good, but inadequate attention was paid to this juicy tidbit: “Football Surface at Faurot Field – We will be replacing the existing artificial surface with a new artificial surface this summer (cost is approximately $1.5M). You’ll see that the Tiger logo at mid field will be slightly larger, the SEC logos will be on the field, and the diamonds in the endzones will say ‘MIZZOU’ vs. Missouri.” Wait . . . what? In honor of Mizzou’s move to the Southeastern Conference, the Tigers are uprooting their existing artificial turf and replacing it . . . with more artificial turf?!?!
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