It's all about the mustache

Missouri tailgate site hosts yearly get-together

September 16, 2012 at 6:00 a.m. | Updated September 16, 2012 at 6:00 a.m.

With tailgating well under way and evidence of freshly cutoff jean shorts around his ankles, Moustache Nation member James P. Anderson cheers at the start of the moustache contest outside Mizzou Arena. More than 80 members of Moustache Nation attended the Missouri tailgate.
With tailgating well under way and evidence of freshly cutoff jean shorts around his ankles, Moustache Nation member James P. Anderson cheers at the start of the moustache contest outside Mizzou Arena. More than 80 members of Moustache Nation attended the Missouri tailgate.

COLUMBIA, Mo. - Eric Menkhus grew up in St. Louis and remembers coming to Missouri football games during the Woody Widenhofer era. Still, this is the first time the Arizona State graduate has been to Columbia to tailgate for a game.

Menkhus and a traveling band of Sun Devil enthusiasts, known as the "Moustache Nation," set up shop on a grassy patch just outside Mizzou Arena. The ASU flag near the stadium entrance makes this area of the MU campus, temporarily, Sun Devil territory.

The "Moustache Nation" is composed of ASU fans spread out across the country who ....

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