COLUMBIA, Mo. — At the height of The Shack’s power as a preferred student drinking spot, countless stories passed between the walls of Mizzou’s historic campus dive bar. Before it closed in 1984 and mysteriously burned down in 1988, Missouri football players would visit after practice to sneak a beer while hanging out inside the walls inscribed with student initials and made famous by “Beetle Bailey” comics.
The players got to know the owner, Butch Weston. In September 1975, they made a bet with Butch.
The Tigers were going to beat Bear Bryant’s unbeatable Crimson Tide.
Weston, an Alabama fan, scoffed at the ludicrous claim.