Stuff Mizzou People Like #4
by RPT on Jun 21, 2010 12:54 PM CDT
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PrintIn the tradition of Stuff White People Like (which was later brilliantly parodied by Every Day Should Be Saturday), I'm going to intermittently kill time this offseason by examining Stuff Mizzou People Like. Today's edition:
The Clinton Club
The renaissance of Mizzou Basketball has meant the return of the love from Mizzou People. But what do Mizzou People love more than winning basketball? Being a member of Clinton Club for Mizzou Basketball games.
You don't just like Mizzou Basketball. You love Mizzou Basketball, especially because of the luxury it can afford you when you sign those sweet, sweet checks to Mike Alden. You're important, and damn it if you don't know it. Whereas all of those plebeians have to find their way to their seats by tipoff and waste their energy yelling, you live the high life.
You've got your cushy gold seat on the south side of Mizzou Arena, and you've managed to keep it comfortable by not compressing the cushion on it for the first seven minutes of the game. Who said Yankee Ingenuity wasn't alive and well with Mizzou People?
Yes, Clinton Clubbin' Mizzou People love their Mizzou Basketball, especially without all the ruckus and noise from that thing going on with that bouncy orange ball in the main part of the building. Clinton Clubbers know that you don't buy the Lexus because it drives nice and you support the company; you drive the Lexus because it's the only way to tell the world how truly awesome you really are.
Seeing the intro video? DeMarre's scream wasn't that cool anyway. Seeing the starting lineups? Randy Wright was too loud, if you really think about it. Making noise during "Enter Sandman" and ogling Golden Girls before tipoff? You damn kids with your devil music and your shamelessly wanton women's outfits.
So here's to you, Clinton Clubbin' Mizzou People. Raise your fine, engraved glasses in honor. Just make sure not to inconvenience yourself in the process.
THE LIST:
No. 1 - Comparing everyone to Clarence Gilbert
No. 2 - Bitching at Columbia Tribune beat writers
No. 3 - Fullbacks, fullback jokes, and beating fullback-related dead horses
No. 4 - The Clinton Club
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This is a red-line issue for me. I hated the fat cat alums when i was in the rafters in Hearns as a student. I had hope that the university would turn Mizzou Arena into a friendly home for students. But nooooo….
Let’s make sure ridiculously wealthy alums are treated as if they’re royalty. Gotta have that… otherwise things would fall apart.
Every single one of my friends who watches Mizzou basketball games
On TV always rips me for tons of empty seats, game in and game out. For people that don’t show, they should give the tickets to students who CAN’T GET IN because they oversell the student section. They sell way way way too few student seats in comparrison to the number of students who try to get tickets. Big pet peeve, I could probably go on for days on this topic.
by TheHamburglar on Jun 21, 2010 6:40 PM CDT up reply actions
It's pretty frustrating...
when you try and explain how far Mizzou basketball has come in the last two years to your friends from other schools, only to have them text you during nationally televised Mizzou games and ask why nobody is there,as the only seats visible on TV are the Clinton Club seats.
"I'm pretty sure there's more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is."
Actually, I think the Clinton Club is mostly hidden
during the TV broadcasts, as the cameras are set up on that side. Unfortunately, the other side of the lower bowl isn’t a ton better.
While I am annoyed by the large patches of empty seats
in the Clinton Club area, I’m also aware of how Mizzou needs those types of donors to stay competitive. The aforementioned student issue would be more of an issue if those same type of empty seat patches weren’t present in the student section half the time, too.
And yes, I’m still bitter about having to sit with an oxygen mask in Hearnes D-section my first two years at Mizzou.
/stereotypical Mizzou fan complaining about other Mizzou fans
Oh...
I TOTALLY get the importance of the Clinton Club to the viability and general health of Missouri athletics. No convincing necessary there.
The big thing: If you’re going to pay that much money to support the Mizzou basketball program, wouldn’t you want to, you know, actually watch more than 30-35 minutes of a 40-minute game?
You would think...
that if you spend that much money towards the Clinton Club you would be there early, and often.
However, on a somewhat related tangent, if you have that kind of money that allows you to be in the Clinton Club, than you might also have the money to not care about watching the games either. Dispensable money is …..er……dispensable ? :)
Given enough velocity even a pig will fly
by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Jun 21, 2010 2:34 PM CDT up reply actions
quit posting when I do
you’re killing my buzz.
Formerly known as Mizzou Grad
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I don't know what you're talking about!
:)
Given enough velocity even a pig will fly
by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Jun 21, 2010 2:38 PM CDT up reply actions
whatever dude...
I know you’re on campus…I’m come up there and find you…when it cools off.
Formerly known as Mizzou Grad
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It's gonna be a long walk
At UW in Seattle.
it’s 59 degrees out, I wore a sweater to lab today.
/totally not missing Missouri summers
Given enough velocity even a pig will fly
by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Jun 21, 2010 2:44 PM CDT up reply actions
Seattle eh?
I’ll contact my man in Station S. Your DOOM APPROACHES!
Formerly known as Mizzou Grad
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I was on UW campus today...
I work cheap.
"When among evil companions, try to fit in." - Wild Bill Donovan
From my time there
From “knowing a guy” a lot of them start out in the pub underneath, then work their way to the seats. AND, there’s a long way (40-110 yards) to walk from their sweet parking to the stadium..
And they’re all old. They move slow.
Formerly known as Mizzou Grad
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It's no different than...
…JoCo fans leaving the Chiefs game in the third quarter to “beat traffic”. If you’re only paying for the status, then you’re getting your money’s worth no matter how long you stay.
Yeah--I know that wasn't the point of the post
These are as much about making fun of the people who complain this way as they are about making fun of the subjects. I was more just talking aloud about what I tell myself when I get angry about the half full lower bowl, since I am a complainer at heart.
The one time I sat in the Clinton Club seats was for the kU game in 09. I thought it would be fun to get a drink at the bar before the game, but the bar area was an absolute madhouse (think Harpos on Thursday but with people twice to three times that age). I just went on down to my seats and enjoyed the view and Mr. Coffee’s heroics.
Clinton Club:
The fastest 28-35 minutes-ish of basketball watching.
"I'm pretty sure there's more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is."
I've thought for a long time
That they should just institute a rule where everyone is allowed to move down after a certain point in the game. Be there to fill your seat or give it up, fat cats.
I mean, it’ll obviously never happen, but it’s nice to think about.
Making fun of the "Mizzou Needs a Fullback" Club since...well, for a while, anyway.
They do that occasionally...
…for the preseason games or the ones with horrible weather, where nobody made it in from KC/StL. It’s a great atmosphere when they do it, but obviously they don’t do it for real games, under normal circumstances…
Rock M Nation
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time for my dumb question:
why NOT for real games under normal circumstances?
Anyone who wants to be a can't-hack-it pantywaist who wears their mama's bra, raise your hand. -Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez
by threadkiller on Jun 21, 2010 5:24 PM CDT up reply actions
It would have to be after halftime, probably...
…since we do have late arrivers, but otherwise I like the idea.
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i agree 100%, bill.
i guess my question, however, is more of an issue with why don’t the powers that be do it now? what is the reason for the status quo?
Anyone who wants to be a can't-hack-it pantywaist who wears their mama's bra, raise your hand. -Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez
by threadkiller on Jun 21, 2010 8:40 PM CDT up reply actions
There's exactly one good reason why someone in the Clinton Club doesn't show up for the first few minutes:
According to a friend of mine who scored tix there once, they serve booze back there up until a certain time, and you aren’t allowed to take it into your seats.
But otherwise…yeah, spot on.
It's a funny name.
ohhhhh.
then i guess i don’t blame them. that rule needs to be changed.
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by stlcardinalsfang on Jun 21, 2010 8:40 PM CDT up reply actions
they can't
they’re at their local favorite eatery, like Shakespeare’s, pissed off because they can’t get a pizza twenty minutes before the game is supposed to start…in ten minutes. Cause it happened. All the time.
Formerly known as Mizzou Grad
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