For Sporting Bliss, There Is No Place Like Nebraska

[knapplc]

You wouldn't think an article like this would be written in a Canadian newspaper, but chalk up another article in praise of Lincoln.

And to those of you whose bits get a bit chafed reading about how nice our fans are, you may want to sit this one out - including the comments at the end of the article.

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Nebraska fans pride themselves on their hospitality and, surely for the past 337 straight sold out games, have been playing host better than anyone in North America. More than 91,000 filled Memorial Stadium last weekend for the renewal of the rivalry with Miami, a record attendance for the facility that has stood on the same plot of land for 91 years.

 

On Saturday, the 1994 national championship team, which beat Miami at the Orange Bowl, was reunited and honoured, trotted out on the field prior to kickoff to a piercing cacophony of fans who never miss a chance to honour the glory days.

 

Miami and Lincoln have little in common, other than a thread of football rivalry that dates back decades. They don’t see each other very often but, when they do, it usually means something big. It is also a clash of ideology, if you want to accept that storyline. There are the amber waves of the American prairie, the good-old-boy Huskers who come from towns like Plattsmouth and Cozad, Beatrice and Murdock (population 234).

 

 

[Abdullah the Butcher]

Well that Canadian can shove the maple leaf up his....hmm the article was complementary, nevermind.

[tschu]

There really is no place like Nebraska.

[WhatDoIKnow]

There really is no place like Nebraska.

 

Thank God!

[NUance]

Canadians also appreciate the warm Nebraska climate.

[Pasadena Husker]

Canadians also appreciate the warm Nebraska climate.

i know it. having spent some time in Winnipeg in late February, Nebraska is quite balmy.