Our Fans

Twodocs said:
What do you expect. The cost to get season tickets prices out young families. The young fans are there on gift tickets not usually season tix holders!
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Through all the nonsense in this thread, this is the one post that gets ignored, yet the only one that gets it right.

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Seems to me that if they can tell you to sit down, you can tell them to STFU and not ruin your experience if they are whining and bellyaching about everything.

 
beanman said:
I went to my first game since colorado '04 yesterday and can say that I was really disappointed in our fans. I sat in west stadium. After the first series of the game, the crowd was never loud again and I wasn't able to stand anymore because of the people around me. One person from my group, who was a lady in her 40s was told by the usher that she would have to be escorted out if she didn't sit down because the people behind her summoned the usher when they told her to sit down so they could see and she refused. I don't care about the boos for the refs, but I have a problem with everything else. What exactly does it take for our fans to actually get into the game? Every time something goes badly(like Tech getting a first down) then our fans get quieter, which is opposite of what should happen. Best fans in the country? I guess I need to go back to the student section, because at least the vast majority of them yell and act like they are at a football game instead of a movie. :angry:
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Haven't been to a game since 2002 but the fans have always been like this through the 80's and 90's. Used to be you just ignored the people who whined about not seeing because they were sitting. Never heard of a usher threatening to throw someone out for it.

Always found most Husker fans at the game were followers and needed someone to start the yelling and cheering to get them into the game.

 
REDSTEEL said:
beanman said:
I went to my first game since colorado '04 yesterday and can say that I was really disappointed in our fans. I sat in west stadium. After the first series of the game, the crowd was never loud again and I wasn't able to stand anymore because of the people around me. One person from my group, who was a lady in her 40s was told by the usher that she would have to be escorted out if she didn't sit down because the people behind her summoned the usher when they told her to sit down so they could see and she refused. I don't care about the boos for the refs, but I have a problem with everything else. What exactly does it take for our fans to actually get into the game? Every time something goes badly(like Tech getting a first down) then our fans get quieter, which is opposite of what should happen. Best fans in the country? I guess I need to go back to the student section, because at least the vast majority of them yell and act like they are at a football game instead of a movie. :angry:
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Haven't been to a game since 2002 but the fans have always been like this through the 80's and 90's. Used to be you just ignored the people who whined about not seeing because they were sitting. Never heard of a usher threatening to throw someone out for it.

Always found most Husker fans at the game were followers and needed someone to start the yelling and cheering to get them into the game.
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I second that.

I've been going to games for the past 5 years, and it seems like this year it is following this trend even more. On most defensive plays, I will start yelling as the opposing team gets into the huddle. I usually stand there, screaming by myself, feeling like a moron for a good 10-15 seconds before ANYONE around me joins in. It really irritates me to the point where lately I've simply been yelling (not at anyone specifically) "why aren't you helping our team?!"

So irritating.

 
watching it a home, after TT scored on the fumble, I swear i heard crickets chirping in the background of the announcers. 14-0 in the 1st and the stadium dies... glad I have not seen a game NU lost when i was there.

 
holvy83 said:
watching it a home, after TT scored on the fumble, I swear i heard crickets chirping in the background of the announcers. 14-0 in the 1st and the stadium dies... glad I have not seen a game NU lost when i was there.
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there were. that TD killed the momentum. up to that point, given it was only 1 drive, but our D hadn't stopped TT. we were moving the ball on O (surprisingly), and that TO turned TD really put a damper on the crowd's enthusiasm.

i was in the student section and you could just feel the air get sucked out of the stadium. it had a lot to do with the shock value, because everyone thought we were going to win and then bam, 14-0.

 
I have to say.. I thought the crowd noise and atmosphere before Tech's first crazy completion was pretty good. After that long drive and the fumble for the touchdown, the crowd was out of it.

About standing up and cheering loudly... back in high school I went with a friend and we were told to sit down by a couple of 30-year-olds. After a couple times of trying to stand to cheer 'after' a play to appease them, a very elderly couple a couple rows in front of us told us to go ahead and stand. And you should have seen them-- I was afraid the older man wasn't going to be able to make it through the game! But they stood and yelled the whole time!

 
knapplc said:
Twodocs said:
What do you expect. The cost to get season tickets prices out young families. The young fans are there on gift tickets not usually season tix holders!
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Through all the nonsense in this thread, this is the one post that gets ignored, yet the only one that gets it right.

:clap
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No. This is not true. Those blue hairs are the same ones rifling through coupons at the pharmacy holding up the lines. "Oh, did you say $1.13? I have three pennies in my coin purse young man." This lady would have to sell her Ford Fairlane if she actually had to give the clerk $2 and just take the change. They have season tickets because they got them in the 40's and 50's, before someone made them throw $10k into a fund to get them. Those tickets will become available, when those people die, and younger folks will buy them (assuming they aren't willed to family members). But, since no one ever gives up their Husker season tickets, we will always be waiting for people to die, to get them. There will always be old folks who won't yell no matter the situation. Well, they will if you are standing in front of them. If you think that if they capped the age for people in Memorial Stadium at 55, and they couldn't get the same amount of revenue for the tickets, you're nuts!

They should ask people if they would like to stand when they order tickets and have a number of sections without benches. Then there would be no complaining about standing or sitting. There would be a lot more room in those sections too. I know I'd rather be there.

 
I've never been to a game and after reading this thread I'm afraid I would get kicked out not sure what I would say to sombody if they told me to sit down. I know I wouldn't be able to do it I can't even stay sitting when I watch the games are on tv

 
Without being offensive (hahha), why are you complaining about older people being at the game. They have just as much reason to be there as you or me. Who's to say they do not care as much as the next person just because they aren't standing up or screaming at the refs..

Sure I'm a bit drunk but perhaps I've missed the point of this thread. (Which is very possible LOL) :bang :bang

 
Captain K said:
knapplc said:
Twodocs said:
What do you expect. The cost to get season tickets prices out young families. The young fans are there on gift tickets not usually season tix holders!
Click to expand...

Through all the nonsense in this thread, this is the one post that gets ignored, yet the only one that gets it right.

:clap
Click to expand...
No. This is not true. Those blue hairs are the same ones rifling through coupons at the pharmacy holding up the lines. "Oh, did you say $1.13? I have three pennies in my coin purse young man." This lady would have to sell her Ford Fairlane if she actually had to give the clerk $2 and just take the change. They have season tickets because they got them in the 40's and 50's, before someone made them throw $10k into a fund to get them. Those tickets will become available, when those people die, and younger folks will buy them (assuming they aren't willed to family members). But, since no one ever gives up their Husker season tickets, we will always be waiting for people to die, to get them. There will always be old folks who won't yell no matter the situation. Well, they will if you are standing in front of them. If you think that if they capped the age for people in Memorial Stadium at 55, and they couldn't get the same amount of revenue for the tickets, you're nuts!

They should ask people if they would like to stand when they order tickets and have a number of sections without benches. Then there would be no complaining about standing or sitting. There would be a lot more room in those sections too. I know I'd rather be there.
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though I am German watching college is much more fun than soccer. Unfortunately though the atmosphere at college games i so linked up with the home teams play on the field. They don't play good it's silent. That's when in soccer stadiums the fans are trying to get their team back in the game by being loud. That picture is from a stadium that has about the same capacity as Lincoln, more than 85,000. That section is called "the wall" there are more than 25,000 people standing. Standind in that crowd, yelling, cheering, jumping up and down is just awesome. Of course what also quites down a stadium in football is the breaks between plays, injury breaks, TO and stuff you don't have that at soccer games. But what i wonder though, is the atmosphere at other football places so much different? So much more loud?

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The media and fans of opposing teams think Nebraska fans are great. The only people who think otherwise are Nebraska fans after a loss. I find it difficult to believe that had other people just cheered loud enough or stood up, Zack Lee would have seen them and been inspired to throw a couple touchdown passes. Bagging on people that pay $50 - $60 to sit and watch a football game is LAME.

 
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