re: RIP Joe Strauss (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

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I immediately took to him because of his penchant for commenting on the absurdity of the various local fan bases.

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Joe Strauss, may he rest in peace, however, this is why I chose not to listen to him or read his stuff.

Let's get real here. If there were no sports fans, there wouldn't be a reason for these guys to have a job. So, in my mind, he was always biting the hand that fed him.

The pro sports fans didn't take near as much "criticism" as Mizzou fans. It's like, we just don't count. We're minor leagues, and he and others, would never admit that we had (up to this year) the best football in the entire state over the past 7yrs.

He wasn't alone in that attitude. Martin Kilcoyne is another. He's never been to Columbia, or Mizzou STL QB meetings, and relies on film crews bringing back the headlines, but he as no desire to even talk about Mizzou. And I think it's horrible that a TV sports director for Mizzou's largest fanbase would prefer to ignore us at best.