I did always feel badly for the '94 Penn State and '97 Michigan players. It must have been very frustrating for them that the fatass blowhards who were running the Big Ten at that time would not allow them to play for an outright title.
Dear Scott Frost,
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Husker QB 1963-65. One of Devaney's first QBs.
You know Joe Partington is? I'll give you a minute to answer.
Maybe I had other things to do. I'm not on here 24-7, you know.
I'm going to step away for a bit.....have some snow shoveling to do, and a trip to the grocery store. That OK with you?
Google was your friend..
I have forgotten more about Nebraska football than you’ll ever know.
Google is your friend.
You must not be a real fan....
Plus, you capitalized "Me" in the middle of a sentence. You're not God.
Heading out to shovel now. Have a nice night.
When did Nebraska wear red pants for the first time ?
No excuses here..
Times ticking..
Ok bozo... it’s real simple. Fans of any team throughout time support their team. Why haven’t you supported your team? Not a single supportive post. I’m not the only one to ask. But you never answer.
How in the world do you not get that people are on to you?
Even if he was a real fan he could answer it with a Press Guide faster than Wikipedia..
Hope he buries himself and in the snow drift.Laughing
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Games are much more fun to watch when your team is at the level of LSU. I pray we get there. Clemson pre Dabo is the best example of where Nebraska is currently at. Correction they were where we were under Bo. Then MR came in and probably set the program back another 3 or 4 years. So my hope is next year we can get back to that 8 9 win mark. Then in another 2 maybe 3 years we can start looking like Clemson did in 2011 at the start of their dominance run.
I would be cool if he wanted to share some memories good or bad of a few Husker games (without paraphrasing Wikipedia). If it’s in the last 25 years I bet I could vividly remember the game. Then I could say he is legit.
I’m not buying his snow shoveling and Grocery story act to avoid more questions..
More like avoiding the inedible if you ask me..
More like avoiding the inedible if you ask me..
Did you see the looks on the faces of people that were at those games ? When you get to that level the fans passionately care about every snap. We use to be like that. When your football program is the pride of the state you tie your identity to it no matter how old you are.
Here's the thing with me.....
Yeah, when I was younger, I took it much more seriously. However, as I got older, some things began to occur....
1) I attended a college that wasn't Nebraska, and was a college athlete in my own right (not a great one, but one nonetheless). That took priority over the Huskers...and I refuse to apologize for that....especially to a bunch of dimwits (not you.....but some others) on a message board. Heck.....once of them actually accused me of being a Colorado fan posing as an Iowa fan posting as a Husker fan.
2) I got married and raised a kid, who now also goes to college...and not at Nebraska. Everything that comes with that became priority over a football team at a school I didn't compete for or attend. Again....not apologizing for that, either...and, again, especially to a bunch of dimwits on a message board.
3) The Huskers began not winning as much as they once did, and I realized that nothing at all happened in my life because of it. I finally discovered that my bad moods and occasional headaches after a loss when I was younger were wastes of time and energy.
4) The reaction our fans had when things weren't going well under Callahan and (at times) Pelini was an eye opener. Kids of Callahan assistants were heckled by adults at their games. Niles Paul's family being verbally harassed after losing to Texas in 2010, as well as him receiving death threats all because he dropped a few passes. Kind of soured on being a "big-time" fan after that as well.
I enjoy the game, and college football in general....but it is just that for me....a game.
I appreciate your civility towards me, and we many need to agree to disagree, but I feel that I've said all I need to say on the topic....especially to some of the others on here.
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This sums it up perfectly! Yes they are 18-23 year olds playing and we are passionate more than some other teams but those kids on this team and the ones that played before mean so much to our state. They are the only game in town!
This is the most transparent post you have posted, and I appreciate it. It gives me a better understanding of where you are coming from.
Due to a variety of circumstances, Nebraska is no longer the university you support. Fair enough.
That being said, I also was an athlete at a university other than Nebraska. My daughter is now an athlete at a university other than Nebraska. This hasn’t dimmed my support of Nebraska football, but we are different people.
Thanks for sharing a bit more about you, and I won’t be pestering you for proof of fandom anymore.
Peace.
As far as D-1 football goes, I support the Huskers more than anyone else....I just don't set my clock by them anymore.
Peace.
Nothing like a recycled cu/wisconsin fan (allong69ks) that has to come around, again, to post here on a Husker message board. Then again, he might be the Iowa poster who had Pogo the cartoon character as his profile pic. One thing’s for sure, he’s no Nebraska fan, Scarlet.
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Well, there's always the pros. Half hearted isn't the same as clarity. Caring too much or too little gets coaches fired, so, you may be in the latter camp.
Don't expect on a fan site to have alot of fans agreeing with your half heartedness.
That's if you're not a fake, in other words, it's hard to tell, and you aren't helping your cause.
I root for NU regardless of record. I also root for all of their teams. It's just a lot more fun when you win. But I'm not a bandwagon fan that is only there when they are winning championships.
I've got two degrees from elsewhere. Still root for the Huskers over everyone. I refuse to apologize for that.
I was born elsewhere. Still root for the Huskers over everyone. I refuse to apologize for that.
I have lived in Texas since 1984. Still root for the Huskers over everyone. I refuse to apologize for that.
I've got two degrees from elsewhere. Still root for the Huskers over everyone. I refuse to apologize for that.
I was born elsewhere. Still root for the Huskers over everyone. I refuse to apologize for that.
I have lived in Texas since 1984. Still root for the Huskers over everyone. I refuse to apologize for that.
Well said. I can remember going off to college to play football somewhere other than Nebraska and being bummed out that I'd miss seeing the Huskers play (this was before DVR's, clearly) and I've stayed a big Husker fan well into my adult life.
Heck, I used to get upset if I wasn't somewhere where I could, at the minimum, listen to the game. This was before the internet.
Same here. It was a plan, rarely went to bars,except on game day, when out of state.
Remember getting upset when you weren't near a TV when the game was on? Problems of a Husker fan.
@scarletred What was our best win from 1950 - 1960? How did we do in the conference that year? Don't try to snowball me. I heard all those games on the radio. You probably go back far enough to remember the Bob father going 6 - 4 two years in a row. Good thing he was before TO and not after him. That 6 -4 record twice, right after TO, and he would have been looking for work just like Solich.
Fans are spoiled now don't you think? If we have a 2 or 3 win season, like we did back then, we will see who the die hard fans are. Virtually nobody.
I don't really care if they agree or not.
Whether I care too much or too little has no bearing on a coach getting fired. I've never been asked for my opinion by the Husker athletic department....and don't expect to be anytime soon.
This was started by a comment I made to one poster....who himself hasn't responded. Must not have bothered him very much, and yet it triggered several others.....especially the guy that asked me about a QB that most people on here under the age of 50 likely never heard of, and made 7-8 posts afterwards about me not answering fast enough (one of his loser buddies even commented how long it had been....like I was being timed or something)....complete with doubting me needing to shovel snow on a day that saw snow fall over much of Nebraska. What a couple of losers.
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I knew what you meant Scarlet...”More like avoiding the inedible if you ask me.” Made me belly laugh.
I flashed back to Norm Crosby and the Tonight Show with Johnny.
Go Big Red!
I flashed back to Norm Crosby and the Tonight Show with Johnny.
Go Big Red!
I wasn’t born until 1957.. And I do go back all the way to the Devaney years...
Answering your question in would have to be the upset win against Bud Wilkinson and Oklahoma in 1959.. Obviously there weren’t many wins during that time frame making this the obvious choice..
You claim to be just a ‘casual’ Big Red fan now but more than ‘casually’ frequent this board and purposely stir up stuff with other members and more than ‘casually’ claim to not be sold on Frost with posts of just general negativity.
You also said you’ve moved beyond the days of getting upset following Big Red but here you are moping around on this board about how the sky is falling in Nebraska. Well I’m not 100% sold on your story but as you pointed out maybe it’s just best to agree to disagree with people in this board and call it at that.
Were all still waiting for your answer on the red pants...This answer you can’t just look up on Wikipedia.
Like Johnny Rodgers once said “we ( Nebraska) rate winning right up there with Oxygen”
Sorry I have read plenty of your posts and they just don’t sound like your a true Nebraska fan especially if you don’t care if they win games anymore..
I didn't stir up anything. I made a very non-hostile comment to someone other that you , and you got triggered by it. You're the one with the problem.
Well, how far is he behind the coaches then? If you don’t think they put “culture” ahead of winning in some instances, I don’t know what to tell you. Worse than that though, is that they sometimes did and sometimes didn’t.
Dont care for wisc and ia but you have to give them credit for recruiting 2 and 3 stars and coaching them up. That still doesnt compare to ohio st that is always in top 5 that loads up on 4 and 5 stars. Nebr needs to win the west in next 2 or 3 years before anyone worries about play offs
No, the fanbase with your attitude as a whole having you attitude will get a coach fired. That's not what you'll find here. For example, iowa, its never won anything of national stage importance, so, last spring, the coach decides not to have a spring game, was the world on fire in iowa? Was post after post screaming about it on fan sites? No, and thats exactly why people think of you as a iowa fan.