The Border War

The Border War is the name of the yearly football games between the University of Missouri Tigers and the University of Kansas Jayhawks. This yearly occasion pits the close-by meeting opponents against one another in the in last session of the consistent season at an impartial site. Both the University of Missouri and the University of Kansas are parts of the Big 12 Athletic Conference. Notwithstanding being parts of the Big 12 they are both in the subcategory known as the Big 12 North.

These two opponent schools additionally have a continuous Football Games competition that was extremely troublesome for the Mizzou ball squad to keep pace with the storied ball program at the University of Kansas. In an arrangement that dates the first gathering as being on Halloween the long held title of Border War was authoritatively supplanted in 2004 with the more curbed title of Border Showdown.

Players by physical executives from both schools to minimize the connection between university dons and genuine fatal vicious wars, fans and media have kept on using authoritatively dead term Border War. After 1910 and until 2007 the area of the yearly contention games had generally substituted between being played at Faurot Field at the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO and Memorial Stadium at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS.

 Before 1911, American Football Games were played in Kansas City. On November 24, 2007 on weekend the two schools played the first of a few games to be held at the nonpartisan site of Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. Pointed stone Stadium is the home of the Kansas City Chiefs NFL group and has a most extreme inhabitance.