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FARMAGEDDON!

The Big 10 has a tradition of certain games claiming traveling trophies each year. Post your predictions for future Husker vs Big 10 rivalry trophies/names. Here is my first: Nebraska - Iowa - (FARMAGEDDON) Here is a list of current Big 10 examples from Wikipedia: Illinois-Northwestern (Sweet Sioux Tomahawk/Land of Lincoln Trophy) Indiana-Purdue (Old Oaken Bucket) Indiana-Michigan State (Old Brass Spittoon) Iowa-Minnesota (Floyd of Rosedale) Iowa-Wisconsin (Heartland Trophy) Minnesota-Wisconsin (Slab of Bacon/Paul Bunyan's Axe) Michigan-Michigan State (Paul Bunyan Trophy) Michigan-Minnesota (Little Brown Jug) Illinois-Ohio State (Illibuck) Illinois-Purdue (Purdue Cannon) Minnesota-Penn State (Governor's Victory Bell) Michigan State-Penn State (Land Grant Trophy) Ohio State-Penn State (No Trophy) Michigan-Ohio State (No Trophy, but Ohio State football players receive a gold pants charm if they win the game) Penn State-Iowa (No Trophy)

I recall reading a conversation or two on this board regarding alternate field turf colors, including red. I'm sure none of us seriously thought anyone would ever actually install field turf that was red, but believe it or not, it's going to happen: Eastern Washington installing red turf I live in Seattle, so I might have to stop by and see this curious monstrosity some day as I'm driving past Spokane on my way back to Nubberland...

I live just across the lake from Huskie Stadium, so I can confirm that Locker and the new coaching staff will make the the Huskies an extremely competitive game for us next year. Being local, it was obvious in early 07 that they had a special QB on their hands and I was instantly jealous and have remained so. The guy is fast, smart, great arm, tough and just plain fun to watch. I can't wait to see the Big Red for a "home away from home" game here in the Seattle and it should be a thriller worth the admission price easily. Below is a convenient link provided to some Locker highlights on youtube. Start with the 07 highlights where he first showed his stiff as the freshman starter. I'm confident you will enjoy Jakes wild ride-- but then immediately start to worry about playing against him next season.... LINK

I agree completely, but my topic is focused on him PERSONALLY, not what it will obviously do for U of N. The fact that he nearly sky rocketed from relative unknown to superstar status overnight is of some concern, as some people just can't cope with all the sudden overwhelming attention and ass kissing from EVERYONE around you. That level of attention poured on some people is not a positive thing and leads to many, many distractions and temptations (evidenced most recently by the previously rock-solid and squeaky clean Tiger Woods and his fall from grace).

Sorry for the double post on this topic. I searched HELP to try to delete one or merge the two, but I'm getting ZERO results for every search term I try. Can any one help me out?

As much as I hoped Suh would pull the upset and walk away with the Hypesman along with his other many awards and achievements, in retrospect I can think of a few good reasons why it might be best for Suh personally that he did NOT win. 1) No Hypesman jinx and heightened media distractions to worry about in the upcoming Holiday Bowl, which could help result in a loss for the team as a whole. I believe him when he says that his primary goal is for the TEAM to WIN and he doesn't care about personal recognition. 2) No Hypesman jinx to contend with at the next level in the NFL, even though expectations will still continue to be very high for him. 3) Adding the Hypesman to his long list of awards and achievements would have elevated him to the status of super celebrity (at least in the sports world) and all the problems associated with super stardom (can't trust who you're friends are, paparazzi following you everywhere, the potential that it goes to his head and he turns from nice guy to screwed up egomanic, etc. etc.). He's going to contend with all the usual celebrity type issues to some degree as it is, but it would have been magnified several fold if he won the HT. It's not like winning the Hypesman would have changed his draft stock or potential paycheck that much. The guy is already projected as a Top 5 draft pick (likely 1st) who is still destined to sign a HUGE multi-million dollar contract. How much MORE money could anyone afford to reward him for adding the HT to his resume? The NFL scouts knew well before the HT ceremony what extraordinary resources he brings to the table, so I say his financial gains would have been minimal. I just hope he is able to stay grounded and humble and let his pads continue to do the smack talking on the playing fields of the NFL and all the way into the Hall of Fame. Suh Big Red!

Screw all this conference BS and BCS. I say we go independent and take on Florida, Alabama, USC, Oklahoma, Texas, and the likes every year! We could schedule Notre Dame as our cupcake opener, and then fight and grind our way through the toughest schedule on the planet every year until we are finally so damn tough and battle tested that no one will play us and we are awarded the National Championship by unanimous forfeit...

Your are correct. I haven't left my windowless underground bunker since November 23, 2001 when the only thing left that made me feel like I looked like George Clooney instead of Franken-Rivers melted down like Chernobyl and left me stranded in vast wasteland of despair and hopelessness... Is the sky still blue? I hope so, because I'm thinking I might emerge from the darkness next fall when we begin to finally put the horror that began on November 23, 2001 forever behind us and begin the next dynasty of Big Red dominance. ooohhh....bandwagoner. yeah, come join us horribly depressed minions that have continued to trudge to games and support the team. need me to send you some shirts? Thanks for the offer on the shirts, but I don't need them right now. I haven't put on any clothes since my solitary confinement began. I just sit around naked all day, picking at my scabs, lesions and tumors and watching reruns of the glory days and faithfully tuning into every Husker game that I can receive in my subterranean region of the country. When I do decide to emerge from the bowels of the earth, I will need something to cover my naked, disease infested body and microscopic genitalia. But I don't want to come out in just any old ordinary Husker gear. I want something special. Can you get your hands on an authentic Lil' Red suit? I know it won't be a huge improvement over my natural appearance, but it's what I want. I dream of one day suiting up as Lil' Red so that I can attend every Husker game and run and dance and jump and scream for our beloved Huskers and see the fans look down on me with only half of the revulsion that I encounter when in my true physical form. You got any connections to help me out?

Your are correct. I haven't left my windowless underground bunker since November 23, 2001 when the only thing left that made me feel like I looked like George Clooney instead of Franken-Rivers melted down like Chernobyl and left me stranded in vast wasteland of despair and hopelessness... Is the sky still blue? I hope so, because I'm thinking I might emerge from the darkness next fall when we begin to finally put the horror that began on November 23, 2001 forever behind us and begin the next dynasty of Big Red dominance.

I don't care if you're right or wrong man, I just want to run through a brick wall for you right now! I want you to preach at my church, dance at my wedding, sing at my funeral and rock out at my high school graduation. All right now. I'm going to name my first born son after you, and he's 22. I want you to coach my sons' tee ball games and teach my girls how to dance ballet. In other words, that was awesome. Thanks nemajordude! I'd be happy to preach, dance, sing, and rock out for you, but there is one thing you must know before agreeing to any public appearance by me at such important life events for you and your family. I'm hideously deformed and extremely hard on the eyes. I'm like a cross between the Elephant Man and Joan Rivers, a mutant of galactic proportion. Newborn babies scream in terror when I enter the room and adults are unable to even look me in the eye without their faces contorting in massive discomfort and their bowels involuntarily emptying into their underwear. My life is a living hell and the only highlight of my cursed life was a brief stint as a headliner in a traveling circus freak-show where I was too was snubbed by the voters in a close race for the Heisman equivalent of the most outstanding physically challenged human on the planet. You still interested?

Blown up like like a quarterback draw that ended one step forward into the crushing embrace and subsequent body slam to the turf by Suh-per-man!

Whew! It's a good thing my six figure bet on a Suh upset of the Hypesman was made with Monopoly money or I would living in a van down by the river next month! Suh is still the most outstanding player of 2009 in my opinion and nothing will change my mind. He has led the charge on the field that has resulted in the Big Red regaining respect in the college football world and he will be sorely missed next season. I wish him all the success in his final appearance as a Husker, in the NFL, and most importantly-- LIFE. He is a fine young man with outstanding character to match his athletic skills and he has represented the University of Nebraska in way that simply makes me PROUD. My next crazy, wild, out of this world prediction for which I will be publicly flogged and dragged through the streets bloody and naked and eventually sequestered for life in a padded cell and with daily shock treatments from Nurse Ratchet and her mental health staff: Suh will be the next President of the United States of America! So put that in my pipe and smoke it! -Seattle Red

Shite! Got to get to the ATM ASAP! Gotta double down the bet with the bookie before the odds go down on Suh and I have to get a smaller private jet, with only one jacuzzi and only two nude flight attendants devoted to my newly rich high flying needs...

HEISMAN UPSET ALERT!!! Stiffarmtrophy.com just released another update on web radio and Suh is closing hard on Ingram for the lead, trailing now by just 1.9%!! SUH is about to sack the F****** Heisman Trophy and yet most of you remain seated with your eyes closed and merely dreaming that he will make a heroic play. Meanwhile, I'm jumping up and down with my eyes wide open as I watch history and a legend in the making as Suh rips the Heisman Trophy out of Ingrams' hands at the goal line and returns it the other way for 6 points and the biggest Husker W in a long, long time--- just as I have been predicting he would for the last several hours now... Folks, we are less than 24 hours away from the biggest Husker party that anyone's thrown in years! Now stand up and open your eyes and start making some F****** noise or go back to the parking lot and turn in all your Huk-ster gear on the way out... SSSSUUUUUUHHHHH!!!!!!

I can't stop watching this video! It's so inspiring to see such utter dominance and strength! I'm almost as excited as I would be if the whole team was getting ready to play for the BCS title! It's going to be awesome when they announce him as the first ever pure defensive player to win the most prestigious award in college football (and return the award to it's true intended meaning as the most outstanding player in all of college football each season).

Oops! Double Post...

Well, well, well... It's been a few hours since I was more or less ridiculed as a crack user and kool-aid drinker extraordinaire for boldly predicting that Suh WILL walk away with the trophy tomorrow night and make history. Hmm..., let's see what's been going on.... Wow, Suh has moved into 2nd place ahead of Gerhart in the stiffarmtrophy.com projection and closed the gap on Ingram from 4.6% down to 3.3%, which is WELL within the statistical margin for error for him to take the lead in the actual voting.... Stiffarmtrophy.com is holding back on any projected winner thus far because it's statisitically too close to call. Hmmm.... What to do? You guys are right. He has absolutely no chance to win. I guess I'll call my bookie right now and cancel my enormous double-down-all-in bet that would make me almost as rich as Suhs' signing bonus in the NFL... WTF was I thinking? The Big Red will never crack the top 10 ever again and Suh is just an over-rated Hypesman wannabe... All hope is lost and Pellini will follow in the footsteps of Charlie Weis... NOT!! I just called my bookie and told him I'm ready to double-double down as soon as I can get to an ATM and take out the maximum allowable cash advance on ALL my credit cards. I think I want to have my own jet along with my own island so Suh will be relaxed and comfortable when I fly him in on my private jet to visit and attend the grand opening of the House of Spears Luxury Island Resort somewhere between Jamaica and Cameroon.... I wonder if there is a limit on how many nude models one can employ to serve Suh and I drinks (spiked and crack laced kool-aid of course) as we bask in our overwhelming success far, far away from the troubles and worries of ordinary life.... Oh, and my island will not have any cars or roads so that Suh doesn't have to worry about drinking and driving and dodging various tropical pets as they try to cross the road and avoid his oncoming SUV... Boy are we gonna have one awesome party together-- I promise to send you guys a post card and maybe even some nude pics of the gorgeous, voluptuous models I will happily and generously employ...

I LOVED this video! I just wish it were a little longer, but otherwise great. Loved the almost identical freeze frame of Suh in a perfect Heisman pose immediately after steamrolling Hawkins on his way to the end zone last year! This is MEANT to be as I predicted in "Fourth Quarter Rally for the Heisman" thread I posted this morning. If all the Heisman voters saw good edited footage of Suhs' most dominant plays, this race would be an easy win instead of a fourth quarter come from behind impossible rally with Suh finally standing alone amid the wreckage of the awe struck college football world! HukserVision did a great job on this video and it's a shame it didn't get released before the HT voter deadline on Monday...

Aw, the sun is finally up here in Seattle and now I think I'll try some of that crack laced kool-aid that you guys accuse me of consuming too much of. Never tried it before, but it sounds like I should expect to have wild dreams and say many fantastic things that no one will believe! Wow, I can't wait to see what I come up with next! Seriously, off to work so I can support the government and the banksters and make sure they don't go hungry. Check back with you all later when my natural high is at it's next daily peak and I can amaze you with my foolish nonsense...

At last, just a little bit of love from HuskerMoon! A small step, but the tide may be turning. Let me try again to help you all believe, just one more time, that Suh WILL win the HT on Saturday. Follow this trend and fill in the blank at the end. Two weeks ago, none of us realistically thought Suh would be invited to NY for the HT, yet he was invited. After the CCG, we began to believe that he could be invited, but didn't have a snowballs chance in hell to actually win. With more ballots than any previous year tabulated, stiffarmtrophy.com is predicting that he is within the statistical margin of error (ok, barely, but damn!) to actually win this thing and destroy the bias and hype forever. And now, with the probability of him actually winning it a very real scientific possibility with less than 48 hours to show time, the winner of the 2009 Heisman Trophy goes to __________? Now, do you see a trend here? Do you feel the huge momentum change in the game? Do you not see that Bo, Suh and company have fought hard and long to get Suh within a very long but make-able Alex Henery-like field goal range, with no time outs left but plenty of time on the clock. Are you packing up and leaving the stadium now, or are you gonna stay until the end and not worry about your F****** feelings getting hurt if the ball hits the upright instead of just barely clearing it? Holy Tee-Boy, am I the only one left in Husker Nation who chooses to hope, to believe, in the impossible come from behind 4th quarter upset with Suh and company on the virtual Heisman field? God it's going to be lonely in Suhs' magical kingdom without you guys, but I'll try my best to convince him to forgive you all, grant you free access into the House of Spears, and pretend it never happened...

Okay, I was laughing at you/with you before, now I'm just plain scared. No worries Kara, your smile is your salvation. Besides, my power to smote you into a pillar of dust was lost when I stopped believing in Santa Claus (Suh, however, never believed in SC but can still turn you into a pillar of salt by just looking at you). Thus, you will live long and witness the miracle transformation that is taking place in the Hallowed Halls of Huskerdom, but only if you join me and have faith that the ball is finally going to start bouncing our way starting on Saturday night and continuing for generations to come....

Oh, Husker Nation! Hast thou been beaten down for so long that thou doth not believe in Miracles? OK, I understand, but wait... A new day is dawning in the world. One where people begin to see the folly of man's past ways and make the leap of faith toward change. A playoff is coming soon, and this is the year that the majority of Hypesman voters realize that they have indeed lost their way and also now understand how much DEFENSE can NDOMINATE a football game and a Heisman leading offensive candidate and all of his supporting cast.... Believe or DIE...

And I, my friend, shall sit at the right hand of Suh Almighty and beg him to forgive you for your lack of faith so that he doth not cast you to the earth like a McCoy doll...

Folks, I hesitate to get any hopes up and have them dashed (like so many times these past few seasons), but I am RIGHT NOW betting it ALL on RED that SSSSUUUUUHHHHHH is about to pull a one man upset of the Hypesman Trophy and shock the world of college football into their senses forever! Stiffarmtrophy.com is planning to make their final projection sometime Friday (Saturday morning at the latest if it stays so statistically close), but right now they have Suh and Gerhart tied for second and both closely within the statistical margin of error of overtaking Ingram for the lead! My BOLD prediction at this point: Stiffarmtrophy.com will project Ingram to win, but Suh will shock the college football world and pull off one of the most monumental upsets in college football history on Saturday night (paving the way for future pure defensive players and/or players not on BCS championship contending teams to win the Hypesman in the future-- and making this the first time in the eight years of stiffarmtrophy.com projections that they got it wrong). Why am I betting the whole hog and the farm on this? 1) Because the race is so statistically close right now on stiffarmtrophy.com (possibly resulting in the closest 3 way race for the HT in a long time, maybe ever). 2) Because it looks to me like whoever wrote the official press release subconsciously screwed up and wrote that Suh "will be" the fourth Husker to win the HT. The press release was corrected to say "would be" within 24 hours after it was released, but it was too late. (If true, I can only imagine the DEFCON 5 alert that went out to the writer, editors, website content manager, project manager, etc. when they realized that they inadvertently leaked the winner on the official website press release announcing the finalists!). Is it possible that we've got a fourth quarter rally on our hands for the Heisman? I can almost hear the TV game announcers screaming in excitement as the final seconds tick away on a fourth and goal as SUH lines up ALONE against an offense that includes Ingram AND Gerhart AND McCoy AND Tee-Boy; Announcers: "The snap is to McCoy in the shotgun. He drops back. Oh no, here comes Suh right up the middle (fighting a triple team hold, no flags)! McCoy's in trouble! Suh has a hand on him (three lineman still hanging on him)! Suh swats away the triple team, grabs McCoy and throws him behind his back into the arms of Tee-Boy! Suh launches like a lion toward Tee-Boy, who cries to Geezuz and runs toward the sideline with McCoy crying and screaming on his back with the ball still in his hands. Suh is closing on them them fast, growling and snorting loudly "BCS! BCS!" He grabs McCoy by the jockstrap with his little finger as McCoy shites himself and jumps into the arms of Ingram on a reverse! Suh launches Tee-Boy out of bounds and stripped naked into the ESPN booth as he gets a firm grip on McCoy's nutsack with the thumb and index finger of his mighty right hand (refs somehow miss this blatant foul, and McCoy will never bear offspring as a result). McCoy screams like a girl and coughs up the ball! Ball's loose!! Ingram tries to pick it up-- he's got it! Suh's got a hand on him. Two hands. Ingram is running in place! Suh picks Ingram up and does a reverse overhead body slam-- ball's loose! Fumble! It bounces toward Gerhart! McCoy is now naked with Tebow in the ESPN booth! Suh pops up off of Ingram-- Ingram isn't moving! Ball's in the end zone! Gerhart and Suh dive toward each other and the ball and COLLIDE violently!!! A nuclear sized explosion blinds everyone and sends a massive shock wave in all directions and a giant mushroom cloud thundering toward heaven! The official game clock explodes as it strikes all zeros, never to be reset again! The audience, both teams/refs/ESPN are stunned and staggered, straining to see through the fog of the BCS biased officiating in a desperate attempt to determine the final outcome. The blinding light subsides and the smoke clears as a dark figure emerges from ground zero... It, it looks like... it's... oh my God... Gerhart is holding Suhs' golden scrotum in his hands like it's the Holy Grail, Suh is holding the game ball in one hand, the Heisman-Nagurski-Outland-Lombari-Bednarik Trophies in the other, smiling like a true champion and nodding affirmatively to Bo and Carl and the team on the sidelines (and TO in the box and Devaney in heaven). The stadium and the world erupt into bedlam and chaos as the rest of the Blackshirt defense leads the team charge on to the field! The Blackshirts and Suh devour the corpses of Gerhart, Ingram, McCoy and Tee-Boy and toss their bones into the crowd of ignorant media and masses! Suh raps the Husker fight song as he ascends into heaven, promising to return one last time in the very near future to firmly renew the dominance of the Big Red forever and ever (or as long as Bo and/or TO are alive and the global warming resistant hybrid corn still grows on prairie plains of Nubberland...) Have faith, fellow children of the Corn (you too Larry the Cable Guy). Trust and believe. Miracles happen and legends are born and you are bearing witness to the power of the House of Spears and the Palace of Pellini to raise the Big Red Phoenix from the ashes and return the world to a simpler time made of smart, disciplined, passionate, physical, smash mouth football and a trail of bloodied, wounded, humbled opponents in our crimson and cream wake... Amen P.S. - God just spoke to me and he confirmed that Suh is the chosen one. Believe and you shall receive....