CheeseHusker

Bush league.

This is what we are, folks.

They've completely cashed it in, now.

Turnovers = death. Cannot happen.

Well, that was about the worst thing that could have happened.

This. The Marlowe end around worked.

I'm not blaming Taylor.... but he's got to move quicker if he's gonna scramble. A couple of those were big yards if he'd taken off 1/2 a second sooner.

Obviously they're gonna have to play better than that. 3rd downs, 3rd downs, 3rd downs. The flags are killing us. Yes, I know half of them aren't there, but the ones that are didn't help. Bad tackling. Dropped passes. Taylor is holding on to the ball too long. Still terrible QB containment on D. It's the same sh-t we've been unhappy about all year... and it isn't getting any better. In Game #11.

Of course It's hard not to be interested in the Badgers.... I was around them for so many years. It was nice to see them go from doormat to power; it coincided nicely with the Packers doing the same thing. I certainly can tell you about the bad old days of Dave McLain and Don Morton. The first game I ever went to at Camp Randall was against Michigan and they lost 62-14... and it wasn't that close. But I lived in Nebraska first.... so there was no way they were going to be superceded, no matter how weird everyone thought I was.

My NFL team is the Packers, and my MLB team is the St. Louis Cardinals. So yeah, I'm having a pretty good year. I liked the Cowboys when I was very young, but kind of had an affinity for a few other teams... Green Bay was one, but also Houston (loved Earl Campbell). Then we moved to Wisconsin and I followed both the Packers and the Cowboys for awhile, but once Dallas turned into Jerry Jones / Miami Hurricanes west I threw them to the curb and stuck with GB. It helped when Favre came along and the Packers became respectable again.... in the 80s they were god awful. I am a St. Louis Cardinals fan primarily because my father and his mother before me were.... they were dragged all over KMOX territory while my grandfather shuttled from Air Force base to Air Force base. I follow the Flyers in hockey and have since the mid-80s.... it's a weird one as I've never lived remotely close to Philadelphia. I just decided that when I began watching hockey, I wanted somebody to beat Edmonton. So I picked the opponent they played in the finals that year, and it stuck. Plus I thought Pelle Lindbergh was bad ass. Then he died, and I became attached to them. I like the Avalanche too and try to support them since they really are about a distant fourth behind everything else in Denver, but I never get that excited about them. I am also a big fan of the Essendon Bombers in the Australian Football League. I spent some time in Melbourne and got absolutely hooked on the sport of Aussie Rules while I was there.... it became a great bonding mechanism between myself and my eventual in-laws when my relationship with their daughter got really serious. As a kid I liked the 76ers in the NBA, because Julius Erving was my favorite player, although I haven't cared about basketball for years. The lockout doesn't bother me one bit. Other college teams - I rooted for Wisconsin for a long time and considered them a second favorite. Obviously that has become enormously difficult. I now root for Turner Gill at Kansas, although that's not going so well.

I thought this way after the NW loss. I was in a pretty bad way for pretty much the whole weekend and most of Monday, Tuesday.... once the PSU thing came out I forgot about it. That loss still grinds my gears. I used to get that way a lot after the first loss of the year... There was that year (99?) where we absolutely killed a highly rated KSU team after fumbling away the Texas game, and I was like "meh". I am buoyed by the small possibility of a BCS bowl... I realize there is some work to do yet, but the thought of playing in the Orange Bowl or the Sugar Bowl again is very exciting to me, even if it isn't the title game. It's been 25 years since we played in the Sugar Bowl and 12 since the Orange. I miss the Orange Bowl.

What the heck do they need the gloves for, if they don't work. Nobody wore those in the 70s and they caught the ball just fine. Do we need to go all out Lester Hayes? Maybe Bo needs to ban them for a week and see what happens.

I'd say more Techmo Super Bowl with eight options. Rozier... If we had him back there we'd only need eight plays.

Did he actually play snaps today? I never saw him.

It's the Tecmo Bowl offense. Run 1, Run 2, Pass 1, Pass 2. You have 30 seconds to pick.

I agree but now we get to hear the media spin the PSU loss into how "the team wasn't focused", "the players are heartbroken", "how will they respond against (team)?" They can say that, but they'd be utterly incorrect. They were pretty focused in that second half.

Whither, whither, Jamal Turner? Something's fishy there.

If for no other reason, than the fact we have all been spared. Spared days and weeks full of sappy, sanctimonious crap. "Oh, we did it for Joe!" "Oh, what an emotional win". "Oh, JoePa's so great, he's just misunderstood".

It's the little things that we continue to screw up. The basic things. I'm not going to be too critical.... it was a win, on the road, in a very harsh place.

I'll take that.

Nobody on this defense can tackle. Nobody. They all stink.

OK... no messing around. Points on this drive, please. Make your blocks, catch the passes.

I remember a couple of "experts" thought Tech would upset Okie Light. Um, yeah, not gonna happen.

My personal opinion is that threads like this are inflammatory and only serve to make the antagonism on this forum worse. I despise these just as much as I hate the "Bo must go" stuff that inevitably pops up after a loss. Few things represent arrogance and hubris to me more than telling someone you are a better fan than they are.

It is puzzling why they aren't better than they are. Every time I watch them, they seem like they are pretty fundamentally sound. Do they not get as much talent? Fitzgerald's a very good coach; I've always respected his ability. He managed to exploit Nebraska's weaknesses to a T. It worked.