A Not-So-Super Story

For a brief time in the 1970s, I cared more about football than baseball. The football Cardinals, under Don Coryell, were more interesting than the baseball Cardinals. And my college team, the Missouri Tigers, regularly upset the top teams in the NCAA. In 1976 alone, they upset #8 USC, #2 Ohio State, and #3 Nebraska — all on the road. That was after beating #2 Alabama in 1975 and before toppling #2 Nebraska in 1978.

And I’m sure they beat Notre Dame somewhere in there, along with some other ranked teams that I can’t recall just now.

Ultimately, though, the crushing disappointments inherent in following those teams, watching them beat some of the best teams one week and then the following week lose to some of the worst, wore me out. By the time Whitey Herzog came along to manage the baseball Cardinals in the…

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