Don't embarrass Gary Pinkel, Mark Mangino, Todd Reesing, Chase Daniel, Tony Temple, Aqib Talib, Lew Perkins, Mike Alden and Carl Peterson.

We're one day away from Armageddon at Arrowhead, and we're all excited, we all want to be a part of it. We want the Kansas and Missouri football programs to entertain us, make us proud and settle a feud that has been marinating, bubbling and erupting for more than 100 years, since Quantrill and Brown disagreed about basic human rights.

Only one thing can ruin tomorrow night's historic clash:

You, the local fans.

You can turn a college football game into a European soccer match. Don't do it.

Let Martin Rucker and Brandon McAnderson settle this. They put the work in. They chose Missouri and Kansas long before the Tigers and Jayhawks were national powerhouses. They sweated and sacrificed and believed in Mangino's and Pinkel's visions before any of us.

This is their night, an evening for the spotlight to shine solely on Chase Coffman and Anthony Collins.

It's not a night for Missouri and Kansas fans to prove how manly or womanly they are by engaging in parking-lot or in-stadium brawls. It's not a night for Kansas or Missouri fans to demonstrate how much hate and disrespect they have toward each other.

I promise you, the Tigers and the Jayhawks will be violent enough for all of us.

This game is a blessing. It's an opportunity for Missouri and Kansas to showcase their programs and what they have to offer potential recruits. It's an opportunity for Kansas City to showcase its ability to host a major sporting event and have Brent Musburger and Kirk Herbstreit tell the world about our barbecue, our downtown redevelopment, our renovation plans at Arrowhead and Kauffman stadiums, and the lights at the Country Club Plaza.

Even though we haven't been here before — playing host to a college game of this magnitude and emotion — we need to act like it.

If someone sitting close to you or passing you in the parking lot wants to start trouble, kill them with kindness. There's nothing wrong with some good-natured ribbing back and forth. That's the whole point and fun of this rivalry. But if someone is drunk and obviously looking for trouble, don't go there with them. Smile, be polite and go on enjoying the game.

You also need to practice a little tolerance. Many people in the stands Saturday night are going to be so full of nervous energy that they're going to want to stand up and be loud for the entire game. If your view is obstructed by someone standing, you need to get on your feet, too.

If you want to sit comfortably and enjoy an unobstructed view of the game, stay home and watch it on your big screen. You may have paid a fortune for your seat, but you need to recognize you paid that money to get into the building, to witness the most compelling event at Arrowhead Stadium since Michael, Jermaine, Tito, Randy and Marlon opened the Victory Tour in 1984 .

That's right. Think of Saturday night as a concert. People are going to want to shake their booties, scream and maybe pass out.

But no one does anything to distract from the performance. No one has a hey-look-at-me moment.

Sports fans love to whine and blast modern athletes for over-the-top showboating, for doing individual acts that take attention away from the teams.

Don't you do it. Don't be the person who instigates an altercation, the person who gives Herbstreit, Corso and Fowler something to talk about other than Jeremy Maclin, Marcus Henry, James McClinton and Brock Christopher.