COLUMBIA, Mo. -- A line of ordinary folks in green "Event Staff" shirts stood facing the Missouri student section late Saturday.
"You can't stop us!" the students chanted, and every time they did, one of the green shirts would glance back at the thinner line of actual law enforcement officers behind them with a look that pleaded, "You've got this, right?"
Even if his colleagues couldn't stop the outpouring of raging hormones from the stands, University of Missouri police officer Dustin Moyer had his assignment locked down tight. Moyer, a five-year veteran of the force in his first season as Missouri coach Gary Pinkel's gameday bodyguard, predicted Saturday's result two weeks earlier. Not long after the Tigers beat Colorado, Moyer began formulating a plan.
"He was real serious," Pinkel said. "He said, 'I want to know how you want to get off the field when we beat Oklahoma."
And the goal posts went to Harpo's.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/andy_staples/10/24/oklahoma.mizzou.insider/index.html?eref=cfg#ixzz13HkBE0b9
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