Favorite Moment of the Pelini Era
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kchusker_chris
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#1: 2012 B1G Championship game....oh wait...
Top 3 games: 2009 Texas, 2009 Holiday Bowl, 2010 Missouri - in that order. Never had as much fun watching a win, let alone a loss as the Texas game. Packed house of Husker fans at Gran Falloon on the Plaza.
Top 3 plays: 57 yard field goal. Colt Toss by Suh. Martinez's run against Wisc this year.
Bottom 3 games: 2012 Wisconsin 2.0. 2012 Ohio State. 2011 Wisconsin. (2010 Holiday bowl, 2011 Michigan tie for a close 4th).
Bottom 3 plays: Martinez's 3 straight picks against Wisconsin in 2011.
Top 3 games: 2009 Texas, 2009 Holiday Bowl, 2010 Missouri - in that order. Never had as much fun watching a win, let alone a loss as the Texas game. Packed house of Husker fans at Gran Falloon on the Plaza.
Top 3 plays: 57 yard field goal. Colt Toss by Suh. Martinez's run against Wisc this year.
Bottom 3 games: 2012 Wisconsin 2.0. 2012 Ohio State. 2011 Wisconsin. (2010 Holiday bowl, 2011 Michigan tie for a close 4th).
Bottom 3 plays: Martinez's 3 straight picks against Wisconsin in 2011.
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QMany
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Comish
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huskerhandy35
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My favorite play or moment i suppose is the Kenny Bell hit on the wisconsin LB during the conference championship! That was textbook and he got unfairly punished for it and that ref should be demoted to pee wee league reffing!
That being said... the best ever Husker moment was when Christian Peter grabbed what he thought was a fumble in the National Championship game and ran it back 85 yards for what he thought was a TD and the dance he did at the 5 yd line going into the endzone when he was all wore out.... LMFAO!! That guy cracks me up to this day! 96 Fiesta Bowl.
Here is the Christian Peter link.... go to 10:06 min in the video! :laughpound lmao! To do that, on the national stage, as a D lineman in a National Championship Game, took some balls! Man this guy lifts my spirits!
That being said... the best ever Husker moment was when Christian Peter grabbed what he thought was a fumble in the National Championship game and ran it back 85 yards for what he thought was a TD and the dance he did at the 5 yd line going into the endzone when he was all wore out.... LMFAO!! That guy cracks me up to this day! 96 Fiesta Bowl.
Here is the Christian Peter link.... go to 10:06 min in the video! :laughpound lmao! To do that, on the national stage, as a D lineman in a National Championship Game, took some balls! Man this guy lifts my spirits!
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Saint Boseph
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I guess not one specific moment, but the first 4 weeks of the 2010 season were probably the best I've ever felt under Bo. Our offense was racking up points, had a pretty good defense, and we were ranked 5th in the country going into Texas week.
Hoosker
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I remember standing in line for that game (2:30 kickoff) and being stunned from the opening kickoff. I was so baffled!
sd'sker
Banned
looking back on that season, we should have been undefeated during the regular season and including the ccg. hate to say it, but that was a bit of a wasted year.
Count 'Bility
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Hoosker
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I guess I was just stunned that we couldn't put it together after that fumble. You're right, he fumbled a lot, but it felt like we were out of it after one play.
Guy Chamberlin
Heisman Trophy Winner
The 2010 season up until Taylor Martinez's injury. It looked as though Nebraska had not only turned the corner, but could go 0 - 60 like a Bugatti Veyron. Washington, Oklahoma State and Kansas State games were just hugely satisfying. Of course I'm pretending the Texas game never happened.
I also thought we turned the corner with the Holiday Bowl shutout against Arizona.
The Henery kick and Suh touchdown back to back have to be the most ball-tingly great moments. Just forget that Colorado should never have been that close, and what a missed field goal would have meant.
I believe it was none other than the loathed Brent Musburger who said Suh vs. Texas in 2009 was the greatest individual defensive performance he'd ever witnessed. In my mind, Suh breaks through on that final play, McCoy panics and throws that ball just 3 degrees higher, and it doesn't land until the clock is decisively at 00:00. That's the difference between legendary and epic.
I also thought we turned the corner with the Holiday Bowl shutout against Arizona.
The Henery kick and Suh touchdown back to back have to be the most ball-tingly great moments. Just forget that Colorado should never have been that close, and what a missed field goal would have meant.
I believe it was none other than the loathed Brent Musburger who said Suh vs. Texas in 2009 was the greatest individual defensive performance he'd ever witnessed. In my mind, Suh breaks through on that final play, McCoy panics and throws that ball just 3 degrees higher, and it doesn't land until the clock is decisively at 00:00. That's the difference between legendary and epic.
Comish
All-Conference
Call me cynical, but I believe they give Texas another shot NO MATTER WHAT the clock reads at the end.................
Guy Chamberlin
Heisman Trophy Winner
Naw. They were clear on the ruling that the clock doesn't stop until the ball hits the ground or seat or railing or whatever. I'm guessing a lot of folks thought it stopped when it crossed the imaginary out-of-bounds plane. One of those folks may have been Colt McCoy. But there was clearly a second left on the clock when that happened. Heartbreaking enough, but we weren't jobbed.
Saint Boseph
Five-Star Recruit
Not necessarily. As much as I hate to admit it, the ball did hit before the clock hit 0:00. My issue was that I had never seen the scenario after the clock hitting 0:00 where the play gets reviewed, much less reversed. One game during the Callahan era @Colorado, the clock hit 0:00 before half when there was clearly time left (3-4 seconds drained off the clock incorrectly vs. 1 sec in the CCG) and despite this, they didn't review it and replay the down. There was the citation of the rule where "egregious errors" in clock management can be corrected, but I think the CCG one was clearly not egregious. The clock operator was off by a split second, that's hardly egregious.
Short version: the ball did hit the stands before the clock hit 0:00, but it should not have been reviewed. But I know if we were on the other side of that scenario, Husker fans would have burned down the stadium in outrage.
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