Howard Schnellenberger gone, RIP

[Spectrumalaska]

Lots I did not know about him. Flamboyant, winning coach, except at OU.

https://sports.yahoo.com/college-fo...howard-schnellenberger-dies-87-140153977.html

 

[bigboxes]

Kind of hard to love the guy that beat Osborne's Scoring Explosion team. That and it started the dynasty years in Miami. *grumble grumble*

 

[huskerhooligansdotcom]

His tenure at Miami was before my time but I remember him predicting a National championship before his one season at Oklahoma

 

[bigboxes]

Bernie Kosar was awesome. That '83 Husker team was built for the ages. We just got unlucky. Any real Husker fan knows the pain after that loss. Everybody remembers the ball off the fingertips of Jeff Smith.

 

[litespeedhuskerfan_rivals19671]

Didn't he once land in a helicopter on a football field before a game started?? Fuzzy on the deets and Google could prolly help, but does anyone know what i'm talking about??

 

[litespeedhuskerfan_rivals19671]

Bernie Kosar was awesome. That '83 Husker team was built for the ages. We just got unlucky. Any real Husker fan knows the pain after that loss. Everybody remembers the ball off the fingertips of Jeff Smith.

Listening to the stories those Miami players tell of yesteryear are nothing short of fabulous.

 

[litespeedhuskerfan_rivals19671]

Just Googled it....hahahaha. what a character.

 

[WC_'sker]

He reminded me of Captain Kangaroo (he says showing his age...).

 

[bigboxes]

He reminded me of Captain Kangaroo (he says showing his age...).

How old are you?

 

[Bart Man]

I can’t forgive him for that grandstanding home field advantage landing of the helicopter on the Orange Bowl field. The triplets not winning that 83 NC is still the toughest loss to take in my 60 years of fandom. Nonetheless RIP Howard, you played your cards right.

 

[GeorgeFlippin]

He turned a poodle into a Rottweiler. But I didn't have a problem with Howard, Jimmy Johnson on the other hand.

 

[B1G RED RULES]

I know I’m an out of touch Gen Xer, but damn I miss toughness in football.

 

[81husker_rivals295268]

Bernie Kosar was awesome. That '83 Husker team was built for the ages. We just got unlucky. Any real Husker fan knows the pain after that loss. Everybody remembers the ball off the fingertips of Jeff Smith.

The ‘83 defense was mediocre. They had problems defending the pass in multiple regular season games.

Miami did their homework and scored just enough to win.

 

[HUSKERFAN66]

He reminded me of Captain Kangaroo (he says showing his age...).

That's what we used to call him. Never saw Mr Green Jeans, dancing bear, bunny, Mr Moose or even grandfather clock.....