Nebraska fans spent the better part of the past two decades telling Colorado Fan they weren't our rivals, it was manufactured on their side, never reciprocated, never a cherished game. When the Big XII made Colorado our day-after-Thanksgiving game the state went collectively bonkers.
But today, because it's convenient to try and make a point on the internet, suddenly they were our rivals? Comical.
So? To get this straight, Nebraska fans have been telling Colorado fans they are not our rivals? Okay, thats news to me, but for arguements sake, lets just go ahead and pretend I've been talking to Colorado fans and adamately denying a rivalry for some reason. Not sure why, but whatever.
Manufactured on their side? Manufactured? In what way? You mean manufactured as in a few decades of getting their asses handed to them. Or maybe manufactured as in every time they had a decent season, even top five in the country a few times, there we were to snatch their hopes from them. You call that manufactured? I'd call that a legit reason to hate us. Thats the stuff rivalries are built from.
So then the state went bonkers when Colorado was made the post Thanksgiving game. Okay, who would we have suggested? Oklahoma? Missouri? Who? Or better yet, we b!^@h now that it is currently Iowa we play, so who would we suggest now?
The entire premise of the argument was that if I had a team to suggest, I'd say Wisconsin. If theres any team currently on our schedule that I would consider a rival, or at least a rival in the making, I'd say Wisconsin. Right now Wisconsin is on the winning side of things, especially stinging was that CC game. If they continue to beat us each year, I think many Huskers would consider them a rival. Yet, if they are on the winning side of it 9-10 times, they probably wouldn't consider us a rival at all. We'd just be another team they trample on each year on their way to the Conference title. Sound famililar doesnt it Huker fans? Yea, because we used to do it to every other team. My conclusion is, Husker fans don't know what it's like to be the little brother. We aren't familiar with the feeling of getting picked on. We've always been the bully. I assure you though, if Nebraska football gets bullied around long enough, you'll hate all of those teams, hell you might even begin to hate your own team. They will be our rivals and we will look forward to any chance of victory over them, yet they may consider it just another Nebraska game. Imagine it folks, it could happen.