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Flag Counter started April 3, 2008

And today we headed southeast to Jackson, Mississippi for the Stockman Grass Farmer Money Conference. We were learning this time (not presenting).

Richard and I attended his work training conference at Tan-Tar-A resort in Osage Beach Monday-Wednesday. Richard received his 10-year pin today!

By COLE YOUNG, The Kansas City Star, 11-25-07

ST. LOUIS | If the Harrisonville football program isn’t a dynasty, then it is getting pretty close.

The Wildcats won their 41st straight game and their third straight Missouri Class 3 state title in a 49-14 drubbing of Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School in the Edward Jones Dome on Saturday afternoon.

It’s the fourth state title in five years for the Wildcats, 14-0, all under head coach Fred Bouchard.

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From the Big 12 Conference web page, Nov. 25, 2007
[Notice the bit about this being the 2nd largest crowd EVER at Arrowhead Stadium (where the Chiefs play)!]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri is one victory away from playing for its first national championship.

Chase Daniel threw for 361 yards and three touchdowns and the third-ranked Tigers ruined No. 2 Kansas’ unbeaten season Saturday night with a 36-28 victory.

As Big 12 North champions, the surprising Tigers (11-1, 7-1 Big 12) will head to San Antonio and a date in the Big 12 championship game with No. 10 Oklahoma, the only team to beat them this season. A victory there will almost certainly propel Missouri into the BCS national championship game on Jan. 7.

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By Ken Davis, Special to SI.com
Written 11-23-07, a day before the big game

Former Kansas coach Don Fambrough has been around far too long to worry about being politically correct, especially when the topic is the athletic rivalry between Kansas and Missouri. Coach Fam has been playing, coaching and talking Kansas football since the 1940s. He walks like a coach, talks like a coach, swears like a coach, and he bleeds crimson and blue for his beloved Jayhawks.

When officials at Kansas and Missouri announced three years ago that the Border War moniker applied to this feud was being dropped and replaced by the Border Showdown, it came as no surprise Fambrough resisted. And with the stakes higher than ever for Saturday’s game between the No. 2 Jayhawks and the No. 3 Tigers, he isn’t about to compromise his standards now.

“I promise you one thing, it’s not any damn showdown,” says Fambrough, 85. “The people who call it a showdown are people who have never played in the Missouri-Kansas football game, because it is total war. Their people get up high for it and we get up high for it.

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The following article is taken from SI.com here.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Chase Daniel and his Missouri teammates will have almost no time at all to savor the biggest victory in school history. A tantalizing chance for an even grander prize lies just over the horizon for a team that wasn’t even ranked until late September.

After beating No. 2 Kansas 36-28 Saturday night and ruining the Jayhawks’ perfect season, the third-ranked Tigers are Big 12 North champions and off to San Antonio for a date with No. 10 Oklahoma in the conference title game. Best the Sooners, and they’re in the BCS national championship game, something that seemed unthinkable in September for a team that hasn’t won even a conference title in 38 years.

”Hopefully, we’re No. 1 in the nation,” said Daniel, the junior quarterback who threw for 361 yards and three touchdowns. ”But all that stuff doesn’t matter. We’ve got a tough game going down to San Antonio against a great Oklahoma team.”

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Yeh-haw! Harrisonville beat MICDS 49-14 in the Missouri Class 3 Championship game in St. Louis this afternoon!

And, to top things off, Missouri University beat Kansas University and so should be picked #1 in the nation in the ballots tomorrow! What a day for Missouri football!

Here’s the group for Thanksgiving breakfast, L-R: Marvin (Andy’s brother), Serena (Marvin’s daughter), Curtis (neighbor boy/son-type), Delilah, Bryce, Jessica, Andy, Jennifer (hiding behind Justin), Justin, Calie, Richard, and Tina. This turned out to be one of our better group photos. I’m thinking it will be the Christmas card!

Jessica had a wonderful craft for us where we made a turkey like the one in the middle of this photo. We wrote different things we were thankful for on the “feathers.”

Richard holds up his turkey with his thankful stuff on it.

I didn’t get a photo of the food before, so had to settle for an “after” shot! We had sausage gravy and bisquits, fruit salad, sourdough pancakes, bacon and eggs. Doesn’t get much better than that!

Well, maybe it does get better when Andy and Marvin did the dishes!