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THE RIVALRY
FROM BOTH SIDES
Though usually level-headed, even senior safety Darrell Stuckey can get caught up in the heat of the moment when playing against Missouri. Stuckey's teammates and coach can agree that he is not a quiet man.
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Memoirs of Border Showdown
Each year's competition creates unique memories
BY STEPHEN MONTEMAYOR smontemayor@kansan.com
This is most likely a futile aim, trying to piece together a broad perspective of the Border Showdown as gathered from the stories of a few diverse parties involved.
But when dealing with a rivalry that transcends sport, that has evoked the fieriest of passions for more than 150 years some good-natured,some pathetically hateful how can a consensus perspective ever be achieved?
It is with this in mind that this writer hopes that perhaps this piece can be the first of a variety of views on the Border Showdown. In some form, we all have our own memories of the Border Showdown through the years. Below are a few additions to that library.
By most accounts senior safety Darrell Stuckey is not a quiet man. His teammates and coach can attest to that. So can former Kansas wide receiver Marcellus Jones, who is a deacon and college-aged youth group leader at Ninth Street Baptist Church, where Stuckey attends.
But for as much as Stuckey talks, even Jones was slightly surprised at what he heard during last year's
game against Missouri at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. Jones was sitting within earshot of Stuckey as he defended Missouri's Jeremy Maclin, who was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the first round of April's NFL draft.
A steady, at times colorful, dialogue was shared between plays as one player tried to get into the other's head. Jones said nothing he heard was personal
SEE PERSPECTIVES ON PAGE 7
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2009
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN