Do people pay to sit on rocks at Missouri

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And what is the significance of the rocks

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They are very hard.

If you opt for the upgraded package, you can just leave your trash lying there.

I think it is some sort of taunt of Kansas. Mocking their love of rocks.

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And what is the significance of the rocks

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Damn you for making me curious about random shite.

I love random shite.

“The landmark was built in 1927 by students, using leftover rocks from the original construction of Memorial Stadium, following a Tigers win against Kansas State. The rock “M” is whitewashed every year by incoming freshmen during fall welcome.”

Let's start a new tradition. Stick a rock up your arse.

Ha, it's still there. That area is general admission.

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What kind of rant poster actually provides facts...

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My Mother drank Gin and smoked Marlboros all during Her pregnancy.

Kind of like getting a hand job on the rocks during a game at UT-El Paso?

The Rock M is more than just a symbol, it’s the foundation of Missouri football

By Peter Baugh
Nov 22, 2019

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Hand-in-hand with his 7-year-old daughter, Scott Eveler trekked down the grassy berm overlooking Missouri’s north end zone. Sophia sported gameday attire: a bright yellow Tigers shirt and black pants decorated with sparkling stars. The pom bouncing on her Missouri winter hat didn’t quite reach her dad’s shoulders.

Saturday was Sophia’s first trip to Memorial Stadium, and Scott wanted to show her a part of the venue he holds dear, one that ties generations of Missouri fans together.

“Go sit on the rocks so I can take a picture!” Eveler told her.

Sophia obliged, posing on the whitewashed stones shaped in a block M, the logo Missouri wore on its helmets from 1971-2011. She looked tiny as a pebble in front of the 90-foot-wide, 95-foot-long collection of rocks, but she was the center of her dad’s attention.

The landmark came to be in Fall 1927, when freshmen used leftover rocks from Memorial Stadium construction to shape the M. It debuted Oct. 1 that year in a win over Kansas State.

“It was an opportunity that comes once in a long time to a university, and almost never to a freshman class — that of establishing a permanent new tradition,” journalist Lee Hills, who would go on to win a Pulitzer Prize, wrote in a 1927 edition of the Missouri Student, which reported that 600 freshmen were involved in moving 300 tons of loose rock.

First-year students are still involved in the tradition nearly a century later: They whitewash the M at the beginning of every school year, a process which assistant Andy Hill, the longest-tenured Missouri coach, watched this fall from his new office in the recently completed $98 million south end zone facility opposite the M. And, at the final home football game of the season, which for this year comes Saturday against Tennessee, senior football players claim a rock, a tangible symbol of Missouri they can carry after they leave.