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It might not be the "worst" weather as far as sitting in the stands as a fan, but in my senior year in 1986, during the last home game of the year vs. K-State was a pretty good blizzard. It snowed so much during the first half you couldn't see any of the yard markers. It was pretty much a whiteout. They even cancelled the band's halftime performance so the field could be plowed. It took more than 1/2 hr. Luckily it wasn't 10 below and the winds weren't 50 miles an hour, but it was a crazy scene seeing the plow go up and down the field during halftime!

Kind of reminds me of a spoof of a high school cafeteria scene when all the conference re-alignment was coming down. I'll post it here...sorry if it's long, but it's pretty funny. Don't even know where I had found it. Enjoy...or scroll by really fast if it's too long. lol Scene: It's lunchtime at College Football High School. And at CFHS, everyone eats together. Except for those short bus kids from the Sun Belt. They eat in a Teflon covered room and are only allowed to use spoons for safety's sake. But CFHS is not unlike any other High School in America, all the groups stick together. The Big Ten, PAC-10, SEC, ACC, and Big East all sit apart from one another at separate tables, telling each other how crappy the other tables are. Over by one of the windows we join Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech, all gussied up in their cheerleader uniforms, sitting down to lunch. As they get seated, their fellow cheerleader Colorado come running up.... Texas: A&M, you're such a whore. A&M: Eat me bitch, you got lucky. I'll be captain nex..... Colorado: Ohmigod! Ohmigod! Ohmigod! Oklahoma: What? Colorado: You guys are. Not. Going. To. Believethisss. Texas Tech: What!? Colorado: Omigod! /almost faints from hyperventilating/ Texas: Bitch if you don't tell me what the f#*k you're talking about I'm going to punch you in your ovaries. /Oklahoma and Oklahoma State roll their eyes, but silently agree with Texas/ Colorado: Alright. Ready? I just heard that the six of us are totally going to be invited out by... wait for it.... the Pac-10! /squeals/ Texas Tech: Ohmigod! NO WAY! Colorado: Yeah! It's totally true. We're all getting invites. No more of this Big XII bullsh#t. And the best part is the PAC-10 guys are totally RICH!! Oklahoma State: Thank God, I'm sick of hanging out with you bitches every Saturday. It's almost like someone makes us all hang out together, all the time. /glares at Texas/ Texas: Whatever, Colorado. Colorado: What!? You're not excited? Texas: Why should I be? I totally dated the PAC-10 a few years ago, but they're lahoosers. I could've gone steady with the PAC-10, or I could hang out with my girls. I totally chose you guys. /smiles fakest of all smiles/ Texas Tech: Don't give us that line of bullsh#t. They dumped your ass after they found out your were stuffing your revenues bra. Texas: f#*k you, Tech. I totally dumped them. You're just pissed off that you wouldn't even be in the flag corps much less a Big XII member Cheerleader if you weren't my cousin, so deal with it. And while you're at it, get me a Diet Coke, bitch. Texas Tech: /grumbles, goes to get Diet Coke, intends to spit in it first/ Oklahoma: So where did you hear about this? Spill it. Colorado: I heard it from that guy! /points to unathletic CFHS newspaper geek/ A&M: From HIM!? Oklahoma: Just from him? Are you f'ing kidding me? He doesn't know anything. That a-hole told everyone I lost my head coach virginity to Notre Dame this summer. That's your source!? Colorado: Calm down Oklahoma, it's not just him. Everyone's talking about it. I heard from people who were hanging out with the PAC-10 all week that this is totally going to happen. Oklahoma State: Oh christ... here comes Iowa State. /Iowa State rolls up in motorized wheelchair, dressed in cheerleader uniform/ Iowa State: /voice box crackles/ WHAT'S THIS CRAP I HEAR ABOUT YOU BITCHES GOING OUT WITH THE PAC-10? WHY DO I HAVE TO HEAR THIS FROM TEDDY GREENSTEIN? I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS. /static/ Colorado: Calm down Iowa State, we just found out about it. Sorry they didn't invite you to party. Iowa State: I DON'T NEED YOUR PITY. WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE CHEERLEADING TEAM? /squak/ Texas: Nothing's going to happen to the cheerleading team Iowa State. No one is going to party with the PAC-10. Colorado: WHAT!? Texas: I've told you before, my Dad owns a dealership, and if you bitches want to have a nice car to drive around in and cool parties to go to, you're doing what I want. Oklahoma: Whatever... /gazes off into the distance, wishes she were somewhere, anywhere else/ Oklahoma State: You know you're not the only one with money Texas. My Uncle Pickens left me some money too. I can get my own car. Texas: Ha! A lot of good it's done you to. Even with the new practice facility boob job the best you can do is the Holiday Bowl. Ever think that if you weren't hanging out with me you wouldn't even get invited there? You were popular for a minute, but when everyone found out the twins were plastic it all went away, didn't it. Oklahoma State: I hate you. /fights back tears/ Colorado: You're not ruining this for me Texas. I'm doing whatever I want. Texas: Fine. Do what you want. But when you come back here trying to be friends, smelling like salmon and wear cords made out of hemp, don't think we're going to talk with you. Iowa State: /chirp/ I KNEW WE'D ALL BE FRIENDS FOR EVER. /Nebraska and Missouri, also in their cheerleading outfits, walk by with the Big Ten talking and giggling/ Nebraska: Hi everyone! We'll see you a practice. /Missouri waves, continues walking/ Iowa State: HI IOWA. YOU GOING TO CALL ME THIS WEEKEND? /crackle/ /Iowa shields face with hand, all his Big Ten friends laugh at him/ /Iowa State turns her wheelchair back to the table/ Iowa State: HE'S MY COUSIN. EVERY NOW AND THEN HE GETS DRUNK AND HE LETS ME MAKE OUT WITH HIM. Colorado: Oh MY GOD, Iowa State. Shut up! Iowa State: HEY COLORADO, REMEMBER BACK IN 2007 WHEN WE MADE OUT!? Colorado: SHUT UP! Iowa State: HA HA HA HA HA. I OWN YOU BITCH. Oklahoma State: So what's up with Nebraska and Missouri hanging out with those Big Ten guys? A&M: Oh my God, it's like Missouri can't get enough of them. All Missouri does is talk about how great the Big Ten is. All the Big Ten would have to do is say "Big Ten Network" "boo" and her legs would be in the air. Texas Tech: Not like Nebraska's any different. Nebraska asked me what kind of thong is easiest to get out of. If the Big Ten asks, we'll never see those two again. Texas: I don't like the Big Ten. A few years ago I thought we were friends but they totally blew me off. Now that my revenues boobs are big, they're all over me again. A&M: It all comes back to you, doesn't it? Texas: You got something to say, bitch? A&M: Yeah, I do. I've been talking with the SEC and I don't need this sh#t anymore. Oklahoma: /in heaviest possible sarcasm/ You're going with the SEC? A&M: That's right. Hi honey! /waves/ /SEC continues eating lunch, carries on as if crickets are chirping/ A&M: See, we're totally steady. Oklahoma State: You're an idiot. Texas: Oh jesus, is Kansas trying to sell test answers again? /Kansas, seeing a teacher, quickly sits down at the Big XII table/ Kansas: Hey everyone, what's going on? A&M: What the hell's the matter with you? Aren't you in enough trouble already? Kansas: What are you talking about? I'm just supplying study supplements. • o There's nothing wrong with that. Oklahoma: If by "study supplements" you mean the actual test key, then yes, there is something wrong with that. Texas Tech: Look, just because you'll sell your panties to anyone with a dollar fifty doesn't mean you can do it. We've got reputations to keep here. /whole table giggles/ Iowa State: HA HA HA HA Colorado: I hate you Kansas. I can't wait to start hanging out with the PAC-10 so I never have to see your ass again. Kansas: Yeah, I heard about that. Let me ask you a simple question, genius. Have you actually talked to anyone in the PAC-10 about this? Colorado: Well... um... no. Kansas: You're an idiot. And you're stuck with me bitch.

It's not exactly cheap for the bars to pick up. For sale to businesses, Cablevision here in St. Joseph, MO charges up to $500 per game! From what I understand, that's pretty much the rate everywhere. That basically means that the bar has to do $1,000 in business just to break even...so it's not really the bonanza for bars that people think. On that note though, here in St. Joseph, Legends Sports Bar carries all the NU games (including the PPVs, as a mgr. here I've got a little pull). For anyone in the area or on their way to KC for anything be sure and stop by. There will probably be anywhere from 60-80 or more other Huskers here. Legends is at 210 N Belt Hwy., part of The Belt Sports Complex, just a minute off the Frederick Blvd. exit.

CMB...band..man I type like crap on Sundays. and yeah, 1883 - 1986 would make me kinda old. haha 1983

CMB...band..man I type like crap on Sundays.

CMS alum here...I was in the band for the 1883-1986 seasons, god that makes me sound old. At least it was at a pretty good and fun time in the history of NU football and I got to see some great games and make some good road trips...also some painful losses. I was in the pep band in Boulder when McCartney whipped them all up into a frenzy and they snapped our 18 year winning streak against them. Our pep band actually LEFT the game with about 5 minutes to go in the game because it was getting so dangerous. We were getting all sorts of s**t thrown at us. At least they hadn't thought of urine bombs yet. In the 4 years I was in we hit some pretty good bowl games....Freshman year Orange Bowl vs. Miami (yeah, THAT game). The Miami fans were crap all week leading up to the game. The Orange Bowl then was in the middle of it's big, big halftime productions. They handed out light-sticks to everyone in the crowd to wave around during a part of the show when they turned all the lights off. Of course in the second half, anyone from Miami that was sitting anywhere near us started throwing them at the band. We kept our hats on all 2nd half for our own protection. lol Until the last few years, that was the last year the band took the bus to the bowl game. Wow, what a long ride! Sophomore year was Sugar Bowl vs. LSU. New Orleans on New Years Eve is a blast. Junior Year was Fiesta Bowl against Michigan. That wasn't as big of a deal because it was before the Fiesta Bowl went big time.Their band thought they were so good. We were lining up for the parade and they were all into their high stepping. We had people trying to find a place where they could get sick because of drinking too much the night before. Senior Year was back to the Fiesta Bowl again for another drunken New Year's eve. Oh yeah, we beat LSU again. A pretty nice consolation prize if we couldn't beat Oklahoma! As far as advice: you're getting in at a good time...just as the team is about to become memorable again. I think you're going to have a lot of good stories to tell in years to come. Make good friends, have fun, laugh at some of the people who take it all TOO seriously. I joke with friends that I actually have fallen asleep on the N on the 50 yard line, getting there early for one of the 6:30 a.m. practices somebody always schedules when you think a show is falling apart. The band is a good time and a great way to get to the games and bowl games for free. Another piece of advice...don't freeze your ass off too much for those early practices in mid November!!! BRRRRR.

I know, I made a big double-take when I looked at the date on the story...seems like yesterday and an OU friend of mine reminded me of it just last week because we are playing there this year. Then again, with all the Big 10 talk, we've stirred up a lot of memories from NU getting robbed in Happy Valley, and that was almost 30 years ago. lol

I suck with links...here is the start of a Pat Forde story from 2006.... NORMAN, Okla. -- The Pacific-10 Conference suspended for one game the officiating crew and the instant replay officials that worked Saturday's Oklahoma-Oregon football game after finding mistakes were made in calls near the end of the contest. Pac-10 Commissioner Tom Hansen said Monday that a review by conference officials of video of the game revealed that both the instant replay officials and the game officials assigned by the conference made errors in the final minute and 12 seconds of the game. Forde-Yard Dash The Dash understands why Sooner Nation lost its collective mind after the officiating fiasco at the end of the Oregon game, which was won by the Ducks, 34-33. The non-call on the onside kick stunk. The inept review of the call was worse. The Pac-10's one-game suspension of the offending officials was completely justified. But the Oklahoma reaction has become an overreaction. In fact, it has transitioned from righteous indignation to outright insanity. Oklahoma lost the game 34-33 after Oregon scored two touchdowns near the end of the game. An onside kick by Oregon after its first late touchdown was touched by a Ducks player before it traveled the required 10 yards, and the Pac-10 ruled that the ball should have been awarded to Oklahoma. The league also said that video revealed that an Oklahoma player actually recovered the ball. Officials on the field gave the ball to Oregon, and replay officials did not overturn that decision. During a subsequent play, pass interference was called on Oklahoma, setting up the winning score. The Sooners argued that the ball had been tipped at the line of scrimmage, thereby nullifying the pass interference call. Replay officials did not see indisputable evidence to overturn the penalty.

Found an old ESPN story http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2593564. At least the refs got suspended (including the replay official). Hopefully they are all long gone by the time we go there this fall.

Actually, I think it WAS Pac-10 refs in that game...it was some kind of Pac-10 conference policy where they used their own refs for home games. I know most other conferences, when they play inter-conference games, use the visitors' conference refs. That policy has screwed some other teams playing in Pac-10 land.

Trying to get an alumni club started in St. Joseph, Missouri. Legends Sports Bar there will have the other two PPV games and will be a home base for the chapter once it gets started. Legends Sports Bar Belt Sports Complex 210 North Belt Hwy. St. Joseph, MO 64506 (816) 233-1054

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I see how the point spread is right around 21....when is the last time NU has been an underdog by that much??? I can remember a couple FSU games that were double digits to around 14...the 01 Rose Bowl was about 10 too, but more than 20??? And as much of a homer as I am, I think if I had to bet on it, I might take Tech. Yuk! that makes me feel like crap.

I'm sure you'll be fine. You'll learn a lot. Though the hands-on experience you're already getting is awesome.