More than 75 former University of Missouri football players and alumni have thrown support to former Mizzou player and former Anheuser-Busch executive Michael Owens for the school’s athletics director job. A list of former players and other alums endorsing Owens is growing by the week, sources confirmed. [...]
An offensive lineman at Mizzou under coach Al Onofrio, Owens lettered from 1973-75. After his playing career, he worked in the Mizzou athletics department under AD Dave Hart. Owens then spent 27 years at Anheuser-Busch and served as the brewer’s vice president of sales and marketing and later as vice president of business operations.