While most elected officials are stumbling over each other to get out a press release or hold a press conference about their Friendly Political Wagers, sometimes opportunities go by with no such wager. That appears to be the case with the Missouri Governor's Cup. It is just a preseason game in the NFL, but it still seems like a prime opportunity for the Mayor of St. Louis and the Mayor of Kansas City to line up a a wager. BBQ vs. Budweiser. Now...that would earn quite a few Daleys!
While the Mayors aren't wagering anything, a couple of bloggers have taken up the slack. Highway 61 and Chimpotle are wagering their blog template colors on the game. Loser has to run the winners colors on his blog.The Missouri Governor's Cup is the trophy awarded to the winner between the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs and St. Louis Rams' annual meetings in the preseason and occasional contests in the regular season.
The contest has been a staple of Missourian's football teams from 1968 to 1987 (between the Chiefs and St. Louis' first football team, the Cardinals) and 1996 to the present (featuring the Chiefs and newly-relocated Rams). The local press occasionally refer to the game as The Battle of Missouri, or the I-70 Series. The Chiefs and Rams meet every year in the pre-season but have only met four times in the regular season.
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