Once upon a time, Mason Locke Weems made up a story about young George Washington chopping down a cherry tree, the most famous line of which permeates the mythos of America’s first president so much that it is taught in schools as evidence of Washington’s character. “I cannot tell a lie,” is now, for better or worse, part of the American lexicon. I invoke it now with the utmost gravity befitting our current state as Mizzou Hoops fans.
I cannot tell a lie... this Mizzou Basketball season sucks.
Only Kid Cudi’s moody stoner anthem captures the unimportant existential crisis we’re currently facing as a fanbase.