Under Drinkwitz, Missouri begins to see itself differently

ESPN.com | October 25, 2024

Eli Drinkwitz and the 6-1 Missouri Tigers face a tough test in Alabama on Saturday. "We're not blue bloods ," Drinkwitz told supporters before the season, "we're a dirty, hardworking brotherhood." Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire

Fire

EYEWEAR USED TO be a kind of prison until glasses became cool. Around the time jocks who never needed prescriptions began flaunting designer frames as a declaration of style. Which was long after Eli Drinkwitz had been memorialized in pictures from his adolescence, dorked-out in big, round lenses he inherited from his older brother, Jeremy.