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Getting A&M'd: v.. To get royally screwed over by officiating bodies who may or may not have a personal vendetta against one of the participants.

Yes he is referring to him. It's not sounding too good on the TM front, but I truly hope he stays committed to Nebraska. We would just add to our cb strength.

Wow. Gutting it is hardcore. I don't know if he chews or not but that's ballsy to whomever guts it.

I guess they found the head and arrested two ex-oregon students. Per Erin Andrews: Here u go.. RT @CollegeGameDay: Lee's Mascot head is recovered! http://ow.ly/3kPGX Link

Apparently us Husker fans are not the only ones who think this bowl game is a joke. BestWorstBowls

Erin Andrews reported on twitter that someone has stolen the Lee Corso Mascot Head yesterday after College Gameday in Corvallis, OR. ErinAndrewsTwitterPage "ALERT: The Lee Corso Gm Day mascot head was stolen in Corvallis..a bad way to end our 1st visit..if u took it, or know who did, plz return!" Then, someone tweeted her a picture of an Oregon fan wearing the LC head. This is pretty funny.

When football ends, that means that my work week goes from 6 days to 7 days. Ugh. Atleast we have signing day to look forward to and begin the hype for next year!

Congrats Fro, You just got your own two page thread! Watch out Owa, we have a new thread gunnin' for your title!

Nice Find!

Arsenate ions are just substituting here if I am reading correctly. Not sure my calling this arsenate-based life is accurate. It seems to be normal life in every way. To use a football analogy, it's like the Patriots losing Tom Brady (phosphorous) and having to roll with Matt Cassel (arsenic). Sure they did just fine, but they would have done better with Brady, and it's not like they made the playoffs that year. What the paragraph quoted there seems to say is that the GFAJ-1 can grow with arsenic, or with phosphorous, but not neither. It would be a lot more interesting and alien if it were some kind of organism that could not grow with our conventional building blocks and had different, unimaginable mechanisms...instead of one that is the same in every way, but just making the best use of its environmental resources. Granted we didn't know it was possible to substitute the phosphate with arsenate ions, but that was basically the hypothesis of one of the biologists here. They went to an arsenic-rich lake to pull samples to test it and found evidence that the substitution was occurring. I think this is more of a footnote "...and by the way, this can also happen." It makes the possibility of wild and fanciful mechanisms of life and maybe alien life all the more tangible, though. The exciting part of it is "Well, if they can do that, who knows what other kind of life there could be...", rather than these particular bacteria. I think this is still a HUGE discovery in the scientific world. I get what you're saying in your Brady vs Cassel comparison, but I think what is truly interesting is the point that this organism can not only sustain life, but grow in the presence of arsenic with or without the presence of phosphorous. Sure, if this bacteria had an option of using phosphorous over arsenic, it would clearly be a better nutrient source to use phosphorous. However, the fact that is bacteria can actually use arsenic in the same manner as phosphorous in the multiple mechanisms of the cell, including replacement of DNA backbone to one that uses arsenic, to be able to survive, is a big deal! Ah science. lol.

geeze its a divisional trophy. we dont need some kind of philosophical epiphany, but that you confucius for your infinite wisdom this is something that we should probably get over, at the risk of looking like big, whinney, paranoid conspiracy theorists. but who knows, at this rate maybe we can convince jesse ventura to come down here and "investigate". I'm not talking about the trophy per se, I am however, explaining to Fro Daddy that he has no idea what he is talking about when it comes to Nebraska Football because he is not part of Nebraska football. funny thing is there are a good number of people here that would tell you i know a great deal about NE football, more than people here who are NE fans. Your arrogance and ignorance to make such a claim without having a clue as to whom i am or what my background iS does speak volumes about you though. excuse me as i am not worthy or could ever know what Big Red Law does....he is all knowing. For I am just a peasant to college football and the infinate wisdom that spews from this great man of Boston. If you only know that I grew up a fan of the huskers (the secret is now out) and that I have spent nearly the last 6 years living in Omaha. That alone gives me the right and the knowledge. Add in the fact that I am a complete football junkie and watch ever game possible including every Nebraska game for nearly the last 22 years...... Nice try in being a smarty pants though....but maybe you can tell me again just how classless Mu fans are again today. what is it the kids say now-a-days???? oh yeah.... ZING!!! Burn. I'm gonna have to side with Fro on this one, BigRedLaw. He's been on the board for a while before I joined and he always is contributing to the conversation on Neb and MU topics. As a "part" of Nebraska football, I understand how you could see it as a dig by Beebe, but with the facts that have been outlined about prior dispersal of divisional trophies, I don't see it that way.

Here are links to their pages DanBeebe FakeTomOsborne

For those of you on twitter, please do yourself a favor and follow "FakeDonBeebe" and "FakeTomOsborne". I don't know who made these accounts, but they are both pro-Nebraska and are freaking hilarious. GBR

Done and done.

For some reason, it just seemed like they gave us calls today so they can screw us once we get back to Texas next week. I know that's paranoid and ridiculous, but that's what I was feeling all day...esp with all the flag pick ups!

Thanks for the well wishes. The job is my dream job, so i'd be awesome to get. I heard that there is a double tax right now, which sounds pretty lame. But the city itself seems to be on the up and up.

I was in Omaha this past weekend for a job interview. This was the first time I've been downtown Omaha in about 5 years. I was really impressed with the stadium and all the building up of the area around the river and then the Midtown Crossing. Where did that even come from? lol. Needless to say, I think if I got the job there, it would be moving back to a city that has really changed in a positive way, which is exciting. How do you guys feel about all the building and growth?

I think you're giving way too much credit to the Big Ten. With us joining the Big Ten, we are finally giving them credibility. For the last 5 years, only Ohio State has been 1) relevant and 2)consistent. Yes, it will be difficult to move to a new and navigate the very difficult schedule that we have next year, but 8 wins just seems too low with the returners we have coming back.

Agreed. But I'd like to leave the big xii with the trophy, letting Beebe know that the best team in your conference just left. However, It'd earn us more respect to play and win against a 2 or 3 ranked SEC team in the Cotton Bowl.

Im not sure, but I think that we will continue to schedule pre-season games with the Big XII. Or atleast thats my hope.

Where can I get a bedazzled jersey? Looks like someone is going to have to learn to be crafty. Good Luck.

Per Twitter, College Gameday is going to Northwestern vs. Illinois at Wrigley Field. @GameDayFootball Buy us some peanuts and Cracker Jack...we're going to Wrigley Field, & might never come back. Illinois & NW...watchout for that brick wall.