The Buffs are doing a heck of a job keeping Mark Fesler’s red out, although it’s got nothing to do with CU’s athletic department. Or ticketing campaigns. Or threats. Or whatever orange cones the university plops in front of Nebraska football fans smelling blood and a good time, not necessarily in that order.
Fesler just wants to keep his car from turning into a latrine.
“They would (urinate) on our car and the students would throw urine on you,” Fesler, treasurer of Coloradoans for Nebraska, the local Big Red booster club, says of Folsom Field, where the Cornhuskers take on the Buffaloes Sept. 7 in CU’s home opener.
“We came back to the parking lot and some of the windshields were damaged. It was the worst stadium to go to. (Bill) McCartney did a good job making the rivalry heated.”
Fesler will still be there, loudly, in spirit. He’s auctioning off his four seats for CU-Nebraska to raise scholarship money for Colorado high schoolers to attend the University of Nebraska — and he expects those tickets to get snapped up by another Huskers loyalist.
Keep the Big Red out of Boulder? When pigs fly.
“It’s not possible,” laughs Kevin McKinney, Wyoming’s senior associate athletic director for external operations. “It’s not.”