Note: the original version of this piece appeared as a three-part series in 2009.
History just gets pared down, bit by bit, through the years, and it's a shame.
Pretty much every Mizzou fan knows the Cliff's Notes version of Mizzou's football history: Pitchin' Paul Chrisman almost wins the Heisman, Don Faurot invents the Split-T, Faurot gets carried off the field, Mizzou almost wins the national title in 1960 but is spurned by a loss to Kansas (who used illegal players!!!!!!), wins the conference in 1969 (its last), pulls a bunch of upsets in the 1970s, falls off the face of the earth in the mid-'80s, and after a couple false starts, re-emerges as a potentially strong program in the mid- to late-'00s.
