William Quantrill

Bloody Bill Anderson.

And William Quantrill.

Quantrill, yeah.

Jeez.

And talking about the border war, casting Kansas as the moral heroes, framing Missouri as the pro-slavery villains.

By utilizing historical figures like John Brown and William Quantrell.

Right versus wrong.

Kansas is right.

And the roots of this hatred literally predate the Civil War.

When, you know, the people on the Missouri side came over, led by William Quantrill, Quantrill's raiders, came to Lawrence.

They burned Lawrence to the ground.

Like, you grew up in Kansas knowing that you're from the free state.

And...

these Missouri people act like no one on that side has ever like gone back to that era and like used any of this.

Like when this rivalry has come up, there was literally some alum a few years back who made a William Quantrill t-shirt with images of the city of Florence burning on a t-shirt, you know, but they're trying to act like they're, you know, like their hands are clean and all of this, like they've never like pushed this civil war stuff.

Like that is literally where the, the rivalry came from, the Civil War.

Neither team was that great most of the time, but you had each other, and you hated each other.

And the roots of this hatred literally predate the Civil War, when the people on the Missouri side came over, led by William Quantrill, Quantrill's raiders, came to Lawrence.

They burned Lawrence to the ground.

Like, you grew up in Kansas knowing that you're from the free state.

People on that side are proud of that heritage.

These Missouri people act like no one on that side has ever gone back to that era and used any of this when this rivalry has come up.

There was literally some alum a few years back who made a William Quantrill t-shirt with images of the city of Lawrence burning on a t-shirt.

But they're trying to act like their hands are clean in all of this.

They invoke the fact that the two s- schools and states fought over the Civil War, Kansas being a free state, Missouri being, uh, not.

Uh, they invoke slavery, Bleeding Kansas, the abolitionist John Brown, and the Confederate, uh, William Quantrill.

Uh, and, uh, [laughs] this was not well received in Missouri.

[laughs] I mean, we love our rivalries, but, uh, as Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz said, "Everyone's got a complicated history." Uh, I think being [laughs] compared, compared to the defenders of slavery was maybe, maybe a bridge too far.

I mean, they're literally, like, the whole reason that this goes back to the Civil War is because of the fact that Kansas wanted to be a free state and Missouri wanted to be a slave state.

William Quantrill and his raider, bushwhacker bastards came over and burned down the city of Lawrence.

They killed everybody.

I mean, it was absolute mayhem.

Yeah, they ran away.

They ran away like cowards.

And you know how William Quantrill died like a coward.

I'm glad.