Through the Lens: Missouri Tigers Rout Murray State In 2024 Season Opener
The Missouri Tigers took their home field and took care of business against the Murray State Racers in their season opener Thursday evening. Check out some photos from the blowout victory.
Three minutes before the Missouri Tigers took Faurot Field for the first time of the season, the usual antics — or, I guess the on-field security would call it “safety” protocols — played out like usual.
Photographers have to find their players in warm ups, like the photo below of Brady Cook, and then work their way to the center of the South video board, where the fans in the Show Me Club watch the game.
No, it isn’t the first entrance that players make when they run out for warm-ups, which also warrants some cheers, but the more grandiose one that follows the hype videos played over both screens. By time those videos are played, photographers are being asked to move every five seconds under the threat that if we don’t, we’ll be trampled.
I’ve never tested my luck with the security, but I’ve also never been touched by the players.
The unfortunate thing, however, is that I also didn’t get lucky enough to claim the best spot in the house for the Tigers’ entrance.
If you time it right, you can land right on the stanchion of the goal post and duck down to get a head-on view of the team coming out from behind the steel pull-down door. This time, “SEC Insider,” which had videographers shooting the game for a Missouri-centered segment, claimed the space.
