"Hey, you clowns, I think you people are: a) blind and dizzy from staring at black and white stripes; b) well-paid by the Buffaloes; c) just plain screwed in the head or d) (write-in answer)," --a clip n' mail comment card pre-addressed to the Big Eight office from the Missouri student newspaper, The Maneater
"5th Down Bread, Buy 4 loaves get the 5th loaf FREE." read a legitimate print ad in the Boulder Daily Camera, Oct. 12-13, 1990.
"I challenge you, as a the commissioner, to develop a review system to prevent such an injustice …" wrote Henry Robertson Jr. of Joplin, Mo.
"I wholeheartedly support efforts by Missouri fans to see that the school withdraws from the Big 8," wrote George Gladney of Champaign, Ill.
"Why stubbornly refuse to correct a tragic error?" wrote Missouri student Jennifer Ann Wilcox.
"Send the correct message to the young people of our society …" wrote Jack Wilt, superintendent, Pekin (Ill.) Community High School.
"Your group of officials … were so poor that I was concerned that they would incite a riot," said Edward E. Zimmerman of St. Louis.
