8. ShowMe Conference - Missouri 
Eugene Eagles
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Maybe it came from a politician saying that words aren't worth much. Maybe it was inexperienced miners. Regardless, Missouri is the ShowMe State and one particular conference took the state's unofficial nickname and ran with it.
Even the Missouri Secretary of State doesn't know the exact origin.
Local look: "No one seems to know for sure just how Missouri received the label, the ‘ShowMe’ State. But it is fitting that the centrally located ShowMe Conference adopted the nickname of the state it competes in. Aligned diagonally from northeast to southwest of Jefferson City (Missouri’s capital), the nine-school conference ... is a cluster of small to mid
range schools, and competes in Missouri Classes 1, 2 and 3. Although the nine rural schools are located within reasonable driving distance from one another, Chamois and Tuscumbia travel nearly 140 miles round trip in their quest to compete against one another."
- Dean Backes, MaxPreps freelance writer based in Missouri (Facebook)Schools: Fatima (Westphalia),
St. Elizabeth,
South Callaway (Mokane),
Linn,
New Bloomfield,
Russellville,
Eugene,
Tuscumbia,
Chamois.
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