Balloon tradition

[Sinomatic]

To your last paragraph, I don't find anything that is done intentionally to harm the environment as infringing on my liberty. Littering is illegal. I question your logic here.

Lets logically list this out...

1. Harm to animals: None found.

2. Harm to local ecologies. None found.

Just because you find something in a place does not mean it is causing harm.

A fly lands on my arm crawls around and then craps on me walks a few steps, finds something it finds appealing like left over lunch, because I'm a messy eater, pukes all over it and me. Its does not harm me. Now a million flies and I might get a bacterial infection or even some virus. But concentration is key here.

The pieces balloon are not found in any alarming concentration. Nor are any dead animals being found in concentrations of note. Anywhere.

 

[SoFL Husker]

Lot's of party stores will be put out of business. Good for you for keeping your stuff in your trunk. I feel better knowing that you are not to blame for not being responsible enough to throw your drink cup away making it necessary to ban plastic straws.

I don't buy the capitalist argument that $$$ > the environment. It's not always efficient to protect our sacred earth. When it is feasible and possible to do the right thing, you do it. I think those benefits are worth the sacrifice.

Look, passenger cars will go electric, and it will have negative affects on the Corn Belt, for sure. That is a terrible outcome for farmers, and it is most likely inevitable. It sucks, but what are you going to do, advances in technology are impossible to stop.

 

[HUSKERFAN66]

Probably the dumbest tradition we have I’ll be glad to see it end

Never happen. I would venture to guess, if the university is pressured to stop selling/giving them away, fans will bring them in at a higher rate to prove a point.

 

[SoFL Husker]

Lets logically list this out...

1. Harm to animals: None found.

2. Harm to local ecologies. None found.

Just because you find something in a place does not mean it is causing harm.

A fly lands on my arm crawls around and then craps on me walks a few steps, finds something it finds appealing like left over lunch, because I'm a messy eater, pukes all over it and me. Its does not harm me. Now a million flies and I might get a bacterial infection or even some virus. But concentration is key here.

The pieces balloon are not found in any alarming concentration. Nor are any dead animals being found in concentrations of note. Anywhere.

You refuse to accept the idea balloons or single use plastics do any harm at all? Is it the source, the words, the logic behind the idea that they do? I am not following you.

It sounds more to me like you are saying, it isn't killing them in mass quantities, therefore, it isn't that big of a deal. And the people that advocate these ideas, they aren't credible i.e. I don't like their politics. I don't believe their news sources or their findings, because, frankly, they are liberal ideas (politicizing the issue).

I don't buy that logic. Science is science, facts are facts.

 

[SoFL Husker]

Lets logically list this out...

1. Harm to animals: None found.

2. Harm to local ecologies. None found.

Just because you find something in a place does not mean it is causing harm.

A fly lands on my arm crawls around and then craps on me walks a few steps, finds something it finds appealing like left over lunch, because I'm a messy eater, pukes all over it and me. Its does not harm me. Now a million flies and I might get a bacterial infection or even some virus. But concentration is key here.

The pieces balloon are not found in any alarming concentration. Nor are any dead animals being found in concentrations of note. Anywhere.

https://www.thedodo.com/in-the-wild/balloons-hurt-animals-risks

 

[HUSKERFAN66]

I don't buy the capitalist argument that $$$ > the environment. It's not always efficient to protect our sacred earth. When it is feasible and possible to do the right thing, you do it. I think those benefits are worth the sacrifice.

Look, passenger cars will go electric, and it will have negative affects on the Corn Belt, for sure. That is a terrible outcome for farmers, and it is most likely inevitable. It sucks, but what are you going to do, advances in technology are impossible to stop.

There's a balance. Just because I don't buy into the ban the balloon thing doesn't mean I don't value the environment. I make my living from the environment and know full well that things change and I don't do things that wete the norm even 20 years ago.
So if we have advances in technology, isn't possible that we are using harmless balloons that are made from biodegradable corn starch?

 

[TFrazier_rivals269992]

I appreciate and respect the passion both sides are expressing in this thread.

However, we are about to embark on the 2018 Nebraska Football Season with Head Coach Scott Frost leading the team onto the field on September 1st. Maybe we can revisit this topic during a down time...maybe in April.

It is time for us to come together!!!

 

[Baxter48_rivals204143]

Recycle everything, drive a hybrid, use solar panels. Donate money to environmental causes, big backer of ASPCA, and plan on giving my estate to causes advocating 1. Protection of natural habitat and 2. Environmental rights.

Not a vegan and love electronics. So yea, a bit of hypocrisy, but I try my best...

Sounds like paganism to me!! That's the problem with some people they believe people in farm country want to destroy the environment and they are the ones who know better, I for one who lives out in the country will be the first the say i want fresh air pure water and I believe we're doing a pretty dam good job of taking care of the land God gave us!!! The highway ditches are way cleaner than in the 1960's you hardly see any trash, I believe Nebraska is the only one or one of the very few that have a NRD (natural resources districts) and they are very pro active in conserving and making sure the water stays clean and the water table doesn't drop to far. Little things like balloons is a insignificant part. Next thing we'll be stopping on the road for a bird or squirrel not to kill it.

 

[Huskerfan2112]

I don't buy the capitalist argument that $$$ > the environment. It's not always efficient to protect our sacred earth. When it is feasible and possible to do the right thing, you do it. I think those benefits are worth the sacrifice.

Look, passenger cars will go electric, and it will have negative affects on the Corn Belt, for sure. That is a terrible outcome for farmers, and it is most likely inevitable. It sucks, but what are you going to do, advances in technology are impossible to stop.

South Florida? I assume you have air conditioning? Does it run 100 percent on solar? If not, please sweat more and save the planet. Will you make that sacrifice?

Your prius does use fossil fuel at times right? Shameful. By a tesla. Then we can talk about how fossil fuels charge the batteries and the hazmat nightmare created by those batteries.

Its balloons man. We are talking balloons. I would be willing to bet that as you live your daily life you do more damage to the environment than baloons released at a stadium 6-7 times a year.

If we are going to ***** about balloons, lets also ***** about all of the CO2 generated by people going to and from games. Lots of emissions on I80. And the people watching on tv. All done on the name of fun. Lots of emissions from power plants to power those tvs. Just ban football and be done with it. Turn TO field into a solar farm.

 

[huskerfan1414]

Im glad im not a liberal and so easily duped by people wanting to dupe me.

 

[Ewooc]

Im glad im not a liberal and so easily duped by people wanting to dupe me.

It can be hard to think for oneself. Easier to have others do it for us. lol

 

[bigboxes]

According to the scoreboard it does not appear to be Iowa State. The opponent on the scoreboard says "Lob". So you got the year right. We played the New Mexico Lobos on October 5th of that year.

After all these years, I thought these were the Iowa State game. I have the Pass Out Check for the Iowa State game along with the pictures in an album. But if I go back to the first pic, there I've typed out that the pics were from the New Mexico game. Good catch!

 

[SoFL Husker]

Im glad im not a liberal and so easily duped by people wanting to dupe me.

Amen to being duped...

 

[Ewooc]

Amen to being duped...

How did you go from balloons in Nebraska to plastic bottles in the ocean?

 

[SoFL Husker]

How did you go from balloons in Nebraska to plastic bottles in the ocean?

It's a global issue. Do you think we all live in a bubble (no pun intended)?

 

[Ewooc]

It's a global issue. Do you think we all live in a bubble (no pun intended)?

Agree, but talking about biodegradable balloons in Nebraska and tons of plastic and garbage in the ocean are 2 completely different topics. If we were talking about Nebraskans dumping their plastic water bottles into the ocean after the first score. This would be relevant and I would be with ya.

 

[Baxter48_rivals204143]

Amen to being duped...

Looks like you people living along the coast aren't so environmentally

 

[Ewooc]

Also to add to this. I am not sure how many of you have young kids, but mine love water balloons. We buy the ones that you hook of to a hose and they fill like 50 at a time (who ever created that is genius by the way). Anyways, by the end of a day there are hundreds of small pieces of balloon all over the driveway and yard. We obviously try to pick as much up as possible, but pieces get left behind. I have noticed 1 the pieces are pretty small and wouldn't do much to animals, 2 within about 2 weeks those pieces left behind have turn into soft mush by 3 weeks are gone.
I have no idea if the Nebraska balloons are made the same way, but if they are they do no harm and are probably gone shortly after landing.

 

[Sporty]

I am waiting to read about or hear about the first animal or anything being killed by one of these balloons since they went to the biodegradable balloons. I myself have never released a balloon at a Husker game. But not because of my concerns about the little effect they may have on the environment. So again I will am waiting for any of the environmentalists on here screaming that the balloons are doing damage to show one example that is happening!

 

[Pennsyhusker_rivals246774]

After all these years, I thought these were Iowa State games. I have the Pass Out Check for the Iowa State game along with the pictures in an album. But if I go back to the first pic, there I've typed out that the pics were from the New Mexico game. Good catch!

Thanks. I don't know why it caught my eye but it did.

 

[CledusSnow]

Libtards are ruining America

 

[TheNewNU_rivals50820]

Amen to being duped...

1% of the trash in the ocean is generated by the United States, if you want this to stop go talk to the Chinese and Indian governments.

 

[redwine65]

I heard the helium in them is becoming expensive, I like to keep the tradition unless the cost is outta control

 

[Sporty]

Name calling in these threads is just wrong. Everybody should condemn it!

 

[Sinomatic]

You refuse to accept the idea balloons or single use plastics do any harm at all? Is it the source, the words, the logic behind the idea that they do? I am not following you.

It sounds more to me like you are saying, it isn't killing them in mass quantities, therefore, it isn't that big of a deal. And the people that advocate these ideas, they aren't credible i.e. I don't like their politics. I don't believe their news sources or their findings, because, frankly, they are liberal ideas (politicizing the issue).

I don't buy that logic. Science is science, facts are facts.

1. I'm not interested in ideas. I'm interested in verifiable facts about THIS issue in THIS ecosystem....Nebraska.

2. I'm not interested in plastics. No plastics are in the tradition of balloon fanfare.

3. I AM saying it isn't killing them in mass quantities because the NRD would have been successful in shutting this tradition down had that been you know.....a FACT.

4. I don't care about political parties or what they advocate regarding THIS issue.

5. Facts are indeed fact, we can agree upon that. But you don't come loaded with any. I could give two craps about ecosystems that are no affected by us in Nebraska regarding THIS issue in THIS ecosystem. Those balloons RARELY make it out of Nebraska.

In this ecosystem dude you're all hat and no cattle.

That big ole island in the Pacific made up of throw away plastic isn't coming from the United States, it's coming mostly from 3 Asian countries.

Heck you don't even have boots or a buckle my friend.

 

[bigboxes]

Thanks. I don't know why it caught my eye but it did.

Here's another view of the balloon release

 

[Pennsyhusker_rivals246774]

Here's another view of the balloon release

Love it! Oh the poor animals....

Gotta love the old press box. I remember when they first built it. I was still pretty young. I thought it was very impressive!

 

[bigboxes]

Love it! Oh the poor animals....

Gotta love the old press box. I remember when they first built it. I was still pretty young. I thought it was very impressive!

I'd say that NU has always had an impressive stadium. I realize that we have an odd stadium today. Part of it's uniqueness is it's built on the past. A foundation if you will. I have grown to love our traditions. Some of the new ones are hit and miss, but tradition is hard to manufacture.

 

[Pennsyhusker_rivals246774]

I'd say that NU has always had an impressive stadium. I realize that we have an odd stadium today. Part of it's uniqueness is it's built on the past. A foundation if you will. I have grown to love our traditions. Some of the new ones are hit and miss, but tradition is hard to manufacture.

Totally agree

 

[SoFL Husker]

1. I'm not interested in ideas. I'm interested in verifiable facts about THIS issue in THIS ecosystem....Nebraska.

2. I'm not interested in plastics. No plastics are in the tradition of balloon fanfare.

3. I AM saying it isn't killing them in mass quantities because the NRD would have been successful in shutting this tradition down had that been you know.....a FACT.

4. I don't care about political parties or what they advocate regarding THIS issue.

5. Facts are indeed fact, we can agree upon that. But you don't come loaded with any. I could give two craps about ecosystems that are no affected by us in Nebraska regarding THIS issue in THIS ecosystem. Those balloons RARELY make it out of Nebraska.

In this ecosystem dude you're all hat and no cattle.

That big ole island in the Pacific made up of throw away plastic isn't coming from the United States, it's coming mostly from 3 Asian countries.

Heck you don't even have boots or a buckle my friend.

Lol. My SoFL company leases 3k acres in The Everglades. Florida panthers. Huge pythons. Deer. Wild hogs.

It's still wrong, no matter how you slice it, or try and rationalize it.

 

[Pennsyhusker_rivals246774]

Lol. My SoFL company leases 3k acres in The Everglades. Florida panthers. Huge pythons. Deer. Wild hogs.

It's still wrong, no matter how you slice it, or try and rationalize it.

Do you have an air conditioner in your house and do you use it? Do you drive a car that puts out carbon dioxide? Do you eat meat? Livestock are the fourth leading cause of greenhouse gasses. And so on... is your own lifestyle carbon neutral and eco friendly? If not then please stop berating us over a few biodegradable balloons

 

[Redscarlet]

Do you have an air conditioner in your house and do you use it? Do you drive a car that puts out carbon dioxide? Do you eat meat? Livestock are the fourth leading cause of greenhouse gasses. And so on... is your own lifestyle carbon neutral and eco friendly? If not then please stop berating us over a few biodegradable balloons

He can’t help himself he is another Horse beater..

 

[Pennsyhusker_rivals246774]

He can’t help himself he is another Horse beater..

Ha. There seems to be an epidemic of that on here.

 

[Ewooc]

Do you have an air conditioner in your house and do you use it? Do you drive a car that puts out carbon dioxide? Do you eat meat? Livestock are the fourth leading cause of greenhouse gasses. And so on... is your own lifestyle carbon neutral and eco friendly? If not then please stop berating us over a few biodegradable balloons

That is what is so funny about this type of thing. These nature nut, preach how horrible the rest of us are for using plastic or releasing some balloon or whatever .They then proceed to jump in their gas hog, go home to their AC house, and watch tv while eating their steak. If someone wants to be an activist for the environment, by all mean you have that right. Don't half *** it. Go all in. Otherwise you are just a hypocrite.

 

[Bremser_rivals74172]

Do you have an air conditioner in your house and do you use it? Do you drive a car that puts out carbon dioxide? Do you eat meat? Livestock are the fourth leading cause of greenhouse gasses. And so on... is your own lifestyle carbon neutral and eco friendly? If not then please stop berating us over a few biodegradable balloons

He can’t help himself he is another Horse beater..

Humping after each score would support your cause. We need more humping.

 

[Pennsyhusker_rivals246774]

Humping after each score would support your cause. We need more humping.

Oh yeah. A lot more humping.

 

[Pennsyhusker_rivals246774]

That is what is so funny about this type of thing. These nature nut, preach how horrible the rest of us are for using plastic or releasing some balloon or whatever .They then proceed to jump in their gas hog, go home to their AC house, and watch tv while eating their steak. If someone wants to be an activist for the environment, by all mean you have that right. Don't half *** it. Go all in. Otherwise you are just a hypocrite.

Exactly. About ten years ago I was driving with a friend to New York on route 3 in Jersey heading through Seacaucus to the Lincoln Tunnel. A HUGE SUV passes us on the left. And who was in the passenger seat? Al Gore. Ha. That car he was in was probably getting 5 miles to the gallon

 

[redwine65]

a average family probably makes more garbage in a week

 

[RedCap_rivals330392]

I saw that a FL based company has put up a billboard here in at attempt to have the tradition stopped. I guess Clemson was the only other school to release balloons and they will stop doing in this year. Totally ridiculous, I love the things some people get obsessed about.
Anyways I don't see it ending here any time soon. If it ever does, what could replace it?..... Give everyone a bag of confetti, instead of balloons everyone throws confetti in the air. The cleaning crew would love that.


https://www.ketv.com/article/billbo...d-nebraska-balloon-release-tradition/22747000

It's a matter of very poor prioritization to me. There are so many major problems in this world that dwarf this and they choose this one to work on? Really poor judgement IMO. I think they're publicity seekers more than people who actually care about solving real world problems. Either that or they're incredibly brain challenged.

 

[F5Tornado]

Balloons in Memorial Stadium are, as Hank Jr. would say, a "family tradition."