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1978 Nebraska vs OU

Yes, I remember him, and I also remember the cop.

On 10/18/2019 at 9:29 AM, beorach said:

 

"Erin Go Bragh" is the Anglicized gibberish version of " Éire go brách."

Thanks,  I'm  a few generations removed from my great-great-grandmother who emigrated from Ireland. So I suppose things are a bit Anglicized.        I'll try to remember the correct phrase moving forward.

   I have made deposit to go to the game in 2021. Should be fun.  GO BIG RED!

Going to Ireland is on my bucket list. Combining it with a Husker game just might be the ticket. Erin Go Bragh & Go Big Red!

Orange Bowl after the 1994 season. Took my folks, was pure joy seeing the expression on my dad's face as the clock ticked down.  Huskers 24 Miami 17.       Dad will be 89 in March, ingrained in me the love of Nebraska football.  Lost my mom last month, she too was a huge Husker fan.   I will always treasure that trip to Miami with them and the fun we had.

I wish him well if he does decide to transfer. 

The records are the same, but the product on the field is much improved.  Other than the Michigan game I never felt Huskers were out matched.   Last year I left the Ohio State  and Iowa games well before they were over and I'm usually one who stays till the last second clicks off. Pitiful showings in last year's 4-8. No so this season.
 

Look forward to 2019. #GBR

Way too many to count.  I don't recall very first game either, I know I was there in '72 for at least one game, the year Johnny the Jet won his Heisman.

Have ticket and photos from Colorado game in '73 (Nov 3, 1973)

Just some of the memorable  home games  I've  attended:  

NU vs Alabama 1977  Huskers hand Bear his only loss of the year.

NU vs OU 1978  Osborne finally beats the Sooners

NU vs Florida St. 1986 First night game in Memorial Stadium
NU vs OU 2001  Black 41 Flash Reverse Pass

NU vs CU 2008   Alex Henry 57 yarder

NU vs Missouri 2010   Roy Helu runs wild

NU vs Northwestern 2013  Hail Mary for the win.

NU vs Minnesota 2018 Frost first head coach win

Also attended Orange Bowl  vs Fl State after '93 season

Orange Bowl vs Miami  '94  National Championship game
Gator Bowl vs Clemson  after 2008 season

Season ticket holder since 2011 so have been to most home games since then. Attended with my dad who had season ticket before then. When I got my own season ticket it turned out to be in the same section and row he'd sat in all those years. Just a few seats down. What are the odds of that?!? He's in late 80's now so no longer has his tickets. Great memories.

There were some pretty bad teams in the 40s.  Overall the 40s was a losing decade.  Late 50s also losing seasons.  First year of Bill Jennings they went 1-7.     Kinda  hard to call this team the worst team in "Husker history."    Yes, it is the first time they've ever gone 0-6.   Disappointing to start the Frost era like this,  but I  have faith he will get things turned around in time.

  I believe Frost will get things turned around but it will take time.  You don't change  2 decades of bad habits and culture overnight. Frost sounds frustrated that they aren't getting through to all the team when it comes to changing bad habits. Will be interesting to see what personnel changes happen moving forward. Have to believe some will after hearing Frost post game.

It shows how very far Huskers had fallen under the past coaches.  I believe Frost will get them back on track but it will take time. The culture has to be overturned completely.

A T-shirt I have sums it up:  Nebraskan by birth,  Husker by blood. 

My dad attended Huskers games as a kid going to the "knothole" section. He's 87 now and attended games until he was 81. (watches from the luxury of his home now on TV)    When I got my season ticket a few years back he was the first person I called. Told him my seat assignment. He said that's the same section & row I sit in.  It hadn't dawned on me when I got the notice in the mail. But yeah..my seat is just down the row from the seat my dad had sat in for decades. What are the chances that would happen?? West stadium Section 23.

    I can't imagine NOT supporting the team or wearing red on game day.  The team isn't very good right now, but have confidence that things can be turned around. It is in my blood.

I always tell people you can't have been raised by my dad without becoming a Husker football fan. He's 84 now and still as faithful a fan as any. He gave up going to the games a few years back but when he went he yelled, and cheered on the team with pride (yeah even though he was a "Blue hair"!!!) I put in for and got a season ticket four years ago and low and behold it is in the exact same section and ROW my dad had sat in for decades, just a few seats on down the row.

So I guess Husker football is just in my blood and the University ticket office knew it too!

I called them today. As it turns out they DO send the newbies their tickets last. They just got new season ticket holder tix back from printer. Should go out in next few days

Anyone else still waiting?(besides me and students??)

Another day, another empty mailbox.

Still waiting for mine. They send the newbies out last? ??

I'm a new season ticket holder this year. Was hoping to find mine in the mailbox today, but not here yet.

I remember the '74 Wisconsin game. Was my freshman year in college and had a

good friend who was from Wisconsin. Took quite a ribbing after they beat us.

I had my name on the waiting list back before they added onto the north stadium

this most recent time.

The first of this year I put in a request for ONE ticket, and will donate $300 annually.

I'll be in section 23, which amazingly enough is the same section my dad

has sat in for over 50 years.(yeah he's one of the blue hairs, but he DOES YELL, as do I)

I don't mind the yearly donation. I'm 55 years old and was jumping up

and down like a 5 year old when I opened the letter.

I opened my mail today and low and behold the letter from the Athletic Department was telling me they could fill my request for a season ticket!

GO BIG RED!

15.3 miles.

Rural Lincoln, east of town.

Good Bye Big XII, I'll miss the old Big Eight teams, the others...not so much.

Hope the Sooners win the majority of future Big XII championships.

Now onto the Big Ten and GO BIG RED!

The game of the century is first in my book. I was 16 and remember the excitement in the room when Kinney scored the go ahead touchdown. One of my cousins was sitting up on the back of the couch by then. My dad and his brother were on the floor in front of the TV and with another cousin squashed in between them.

Next would be the '78 game when Osborne finally beat them. I was at that game. Course then we had to play them again in the Orange Bowl that year and lost.

Third I'd put the 2001 game. Couldn't have asked for a better birthday present than to beat OU that day.

GO BIG RED BEAT THE SOONERS!

Big 12 website says we are the home team.

Yep, that's what I found too.

GO BIG RED!