Anyone else attend the 1983 Kickoff Classic ?
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I guess nobody who posts here went to the game except you. I thought about it. It was on a Monday night, 29 August. I was going with a group to a houseboat trip on Lake Havasu the following Thursday since Labor Day was Monday the 5th. I had just started a new job that year and didn't have much money or vacation time, so it boiled down to the KO Classic or the houseboat trip. Even though Nebraska kicked ***, the houseboat trip turned out to be a no-brainer. Two large houseboats, two ski boats, a couple jet skis and about half of the 30 people were 20-something women. That was a big summer, the US festival was during Memorial Day 1983.
I was there. I was in graduate school in Maryland at the time so it was a no brainer to drive up to the meadowlands.
I came from Long Island. On a bus full of PSU fans with perhaps only one or two other Husker fans. Everybody was cool however. I was a couple of rows from the top.
Rozier only ran for about 70 yards. But then he totaled over 2,000 for the year and the Heisman.
I do not remember our section number but we were near the top as well. But I was in a section with tons of Husker fans and we were delirious with booze and delight over the outcome.
