808Husker in KCMO

Madonna performs the Super Bowl halftime show at the Super Dome.

Too soon?

My dog, "808 Jake" says winter is over. Write it down.

Men who stare at goats takes a special breed. I am that breed.

Hey! I got nominated for something!

As long as it doesn't have the HUSKERS script over the N i am fine with it. That is too 90's for me. Just a plain N is how i like it.

I hate that script logo.

Just started watching Mad Men last night. Heard nothing but great things about it.

I watched the bowl game out of obligation, not for fun. It was less fun to be a Huskers fan this year than any I can remember in my life. I'd say that 30% of that was the play on the field. 50% of it was the move to the B1G. Living in Kansas City as a Huskers fan was amazing when we were in the Big 12. KU, MU and KSU fans all wanted to talk football. The games against those teams mattered because what matters in College football is regional rivalries. The days leading up to the MU games were full of predictions, bravado and anticipation. Now, there is nothing. There is one Iowa fan in my office. No one watches the B1G. Being a Nebraska fan is now irrelevant in the conversation around the water cooler.

The other 20% is coach Pelini. I would not have said that until Dennard got thrown out of that bowl game. I finally equated Pelini's temper and lack of composure to the way the players act and react on the field. Penalties, Punks and Punts. It is embarrassing to be a Cornhusker fan. Those that live in state are insulated from it. Those of us who live in the rest of the world are implicated by it.

If you watched the new movies first, then went back and watched the originals with their outdated special effects, even the remastered versions would look pretty bad. Better to watch them in order of special effects advances.

Those added effects drive me crazy. That and the revisionist history. In the updated episode 4, Greedo shoots first in the Mos Isley Cantina. In the original, Han blasts with Greedo failing to get a shot off.

For the record, the Royals are 30/1 to win the World Series as well...

Oregon, and Maryland has sweet uniforms, but keep that style out of Lincoln

 

 

Fixed that for you.

 

Ny issue with this uniform is that it doesnt match the Maryland flag like it is meant to. The shoulder insignia shouls be switched around so that it mirrors quadrants of the flag.

nike is much better. there is a reason the nba switched to nike.

 

What are you talking about? The NBA's contract with adidas runs for like, another six years.

Probably meant to say the NFL.

Lavonte also wasn't a finalist for the Lott Award.

I don't know anything about Lavonte David off the playing field. Does he embody "integrity, maturity, performance, academics, community, and tenacity."

Wasn't one of the thing s that was so great about the B1G that their bowl affiliates HAD to pick their invites based on final conference standings? All of this speculation should be a non issue.

Am I the only one that thinks the logos and all of that should be geographically oriented? It really bothers me. In what world is Iowa west of Nebraska?

My kids are staying the night at the grandparents house tonight. I am taking my wife to see this terrible movie. Then we will come home and she will do a little vampire feeding of her own.

I'm as settled in with the Big Ten as I can be. Shockingly settled in. I didn't anticipate feeling so at home so quickly, but it's been like moving to a new town and discovering your neighborhood is full of Nebraskans. Sure it's different, but much of it is the same. The Big Ten feels like my favorite old sweatshirt I forgot, only to dig it out of the back of the closet and find out the fit is just like the old days.

 

I just never felt any "magic" playing Iowa State or Missouri. They were like gnats, games you had to get through to get to the real prize at the end of the season, the Oklahoma game and the Bowl. Everything before that was just going through the motions. It was more an exercise of watching every guy on the roster play than anticipating a great game all week. Really, how juiced were people for Kansas most years? Or for Iowa State, or Missouri? To me, Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State, Wisconsin and Iowa easily trump those games. It's not even a question.

 

I'm as stodgy and conservative as most Nebraskans, but when it comes to football enjoyment, the Big Ten is without question more fun than the Big XII.

If you've felt this way over the last 20 years, you're not watching the same games I have been. Do you know what rank KU finished in 1995? Tenth. Their only loss was to Nebraska. Same with #6 Kansas State. Do you not remember being beat by 40 points by KU in 2007? Do you not remember playing COLORADO for the de facto national championship in 1994? do you not remember being overmatched 2 years in a row By Mizzou, losing at home?

Its comments like this that get Huskers fans labeled as arrogant, revisionist, living in the past fans.

Being excited to play OSU, Michigan, PSU, etc. is like being excited to sit at the adult table at Thanksgiving for the first time. We have stadium envy. Trophy envy. History envy. You name it. We envy those Big 10 teams and now we feel like we have finally arrived at the adult table. The truth of the matter is that we were always at the adult table. We've just switched families.

It seems hollow because it is hollow. College Football as a whole is a shadow of itself. Its about money. That's all. Nebraska cashed in with the conference move. Yeah, I know we had to do it. We were pushed.

The point is, I've watched NU play Kansas every year since I was seven. Half of my friends are Mizzou fans. Kansas State was a respectable opponent for years and is once again. I could care less about those other Wildcats. I don't know what a Buckeye is. A Nittanty Lion sounds like (and their mascot looks like) something my grandma would make to pass the time.

College football isn't all about tv deals and National Championships. It's about pride in where you come from and healthy competition with your neighbors. At least it used to be. Now its about the cash. Money doesn't fill that hole in your soul. That's why this season feels hollow.

Tuff is the only kitteh for me.

I did see a fan wearing the "N" ones. So apparently they are for sale. Anyone seen them anywhere?

Huskers Authentic have them.

Wouldn't OU go to the Fiesta? I'm not sure how this works.

You're right. For OU to win out, they would have to beat OSU and have the head to head over them for the Big 12 title. Good catch.

The amazing part of that block was that he switched defenders. He blocked the defender to the outside out of the play, then came back and got the seal inside. Beautiful.

Nice stop by the D. More Rex!

Hpw about calling that hold errrr I mean tackle outside!!!!

No doubt

stay in your lane.

Nice read by #3.