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Not sure where this link is taking you but my Anti Virus buzzed in and there is a Trojan riding with the file.

 

Anyone else have issues while opening this link?

Are you talking about the link in the first post?

I leave for one day and this place turns into a slap fight.

Hey guys, if anyone can make me a signature that would be great! Im thinking I want one of Bo Pelini looking pissed off/yelling and it says passion, intimidation and perfection somewhere in it. The name Po Belini in it also. Thanks in advance and sorry if the description is poor.

Here you go.

^huzkerbob^

That's beautiful. Mind if I put that in my About Me page? I'll cite you, of course.

Free use as far as I'm concerned.

Better version of "Glory"

Nice pics, Elliot! I D/Led your "Glory" pic. I might have to use that somehow. What did you use to stitch those pics together?

I tried to use the Canon Photostitch software, but it looked like crap. I pieced it together using Photoshop. I'm going to redo it, make it a little less distorted, and get it framed.

I had the opportunity to come up from Austin to visit family this last weekend, and took the time to swing by the stadium a bit and thought I'd share some of the photos.

http://drop.io/huskerstadium

I finally got all my pics uploaded. I'm not posting them all here because it would kill your bandwidth, so here's the link to the gallery:

 

Fan Day Pics

Nice!

Is it possible that someone can make a SUUUUUHHHH emoticon almost like the Restore the Order emoticon or something similiar?

How about Suh himself? Will that do?

Every prayer is answered. Sometimes the answer is "No."

 

So if I pray for a sick person to heal and he does then God answered my prayer with a yes, but if he doesn't heal then God said no. The problem I have with that is that it is unfalsifiable. You can't prove that God intervened in any way.

If you're looking for proof or evidence of something, religion is not the place to look. It's not a science experiment.

Do they really need braclets as reminder of last season???? To me that is something that would stick in my mind in every drill, weight room activity, conditioning drill and i would use it as fuel to be better this season.

it is also a solidarity thing if everyone on offense has it. also, you can never have too much motivation, or too many bracelets.

Yes you can.

I'm sure I'm going to be in the minority here, but at least its more fodder to get us through the next few weeks...

 

The NU Marketing department made 2 mistakes with the production and subsequent edit of their "Red-Out Around The World Video". Its a classic example of 2 wrongs don't make a right.

Producing a hype video that closes by calling out one opponent midway through the schedule is bush league. It lowers our standard to an Army/Navy "one game on the schedule matters" level. Of course this isnt the intent, but it can (and was) perceived by the media and the opposing team's fans as hyping the game to compensate for being an inferior team. Now, before you misconstrue that statement, reread it. I'm not claiming we're inferior. I expect us to go into the 10-16 game as a favorite. I'm saying that the way it was marketed portrays us as an underdog. Nebraska - both the program and its fanbase - always expect to be competitive in any game.

 

So, the past is the past and video is made and its out there for the world to see. So be it. Then comes the most bewildering move of all. At the request of Tom Osborne, the words "Beat Texas" dissapear from the end of the video. Are you kidding me? Thats like challenging the bully to a fight after school and then not showing up. While I certainly didnt agree with releasing the video in the first place...editing it after the fact makes us look worse in the media and to the opposing school's fans. It appears as though we can't back up our talk. There is absolutely no reason to remove that line. If it wasnt classy in the first place, its certainly less classy to not stick to your guns.

 

It had since come out that the NU Marketing Dept made the video and that it wasnt cleared by Bo or at the very least, T.O. Really? Nebraska is what a top 10 revenue generating football program? And somehow the communication lines were faulty on this one? Frustrating.

 

I can't wait to talk about an actual game...

You can't expect everything to pass through their mailboxes. They have better things to do. I can assure you no one who was involved saw this fiasco coming. I agree with the rest of the assessment thought. Hindsight is a beautiful thing.

Actually, Michigan will be just as high. Even though Penn State had the larger stadium for the last year or so, Michigan still had a higher average attendance. Highest in the nation for many years running

 

I'd be interested to know how they got the square footage, is it just the seating area, or does it include concourse area, concessions, restrooms, ect...

 

Google earth and too much time on my hands. I includes seating PLUS the field and sidelines.

memorial stadium holds more than 81k, when i was at a game a few years ago it had 85 plus there

Capacity refers to the fan seating. Attendance includes the band, staff, media, etc...

Worst:

CU - Pretty obvious.

Baylor - Go to a game there, no one shows up.

Tech - They steal our fans, and stealing is bad.

Best: NU, UT, A&M

I saw BigWillie on a Pamela Anderson, he'll have hepatitis by midseason.

Is there a way to find out which are the largest stadiums by footprint rather than seating capacity?

 

The smallest stadium with the largest number of fans proportionally would probably be the most intense; especially in a multiple-deck stadium rather than an open bowl.

 

Took me a little while to put this together, so I hope you're happy. Density is based on people per square foot.

 

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That's a step in the right direction, but it stills needs to take things into account like distance from the gridiron and acoustic containment. I appreciate the hard work though. +1

That's going to take me a while. However, I am going to update it based on average attendance as well. I'm sure Michigan won't be up quite as high after that.

Is there a way to find out which are the largest stadiums by footprint rather than seating capacity?

 

The smallest stadium with the largest number of fans proportionally would probably be the most intense; especially in a multiple-deck stadium rather than an open bowl.

Took me a little while to put this together, so I hope you're happy. Density is based on people per square foot.

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Penn State and Nebraska fans know each other well.

 

Ask Penn State fans about Nebraska. The first thing they'll mention is getting shafted by the pollsters in 1994, when both the Nittany Lions and Cornhuskers went undefeated. The Huskers, however, were awarded the national championship.

 

Ask Nebraska fans about Penn State. The first thing they'll mention is the apparent blown call on Mike McCloskey's grab near the sidelines with just seconds remaining in the 1982 matchup between the teams. The Lions scored on the ensuing play to cap off the come-from-behind victory. Both the Lions and Huskers finished with one loss. The Lions, however, were awarded their first national title.

 

Few, though, talk about the 2002 game in Happy Valley, which provided some history of its own. When the No. 7 Huskers, fresh off a national championship appearance, visited State College for a Sept. 14, 2002 showdown of unbeatens, 110,753 fans packed Beaver Stadium, the biggest crowd in the venue's history, by far.

 

"Gotta be the crowd," Gino Capone, a starting linebacker on the '02 team, said when asked about the first thing he remembers from the '02 game. "I remember the atmosphere. In terms of crowd noise, that was definitely the pinnacle for Beaver Stadium."

 

The 25th-ranked Lions used the crowd's support that night to rout the Huskers, 40-7.

 

For the Huskers, it would be a game that marked the end of their dominance, sending the historic program to its worst record (7-7) in 41 years and into a seven-year stretch that produced just one 10-win season.

 

For Tamba Hali, it was an introduction to what Penn State football is all about. After failing to play in the first two games, Hali made his debut that night against the Huskers.

 

"That was one of the most exciting games I've been in," he said. "It was an 8 o'clock game, so we was rocking. The crowd was loud."Unlike his then-teammate Capone, Hali's fondest moment from that game wasn't the crowd. It was a little more personal.

 

"I remember being recruited [by Nebraska], and [the coach recruiting Hali] said to my [high school] coach, 'If that kid wants to play as a true freshman, tell him to go to places like Syracuse or something,'" Hali said. "And that stuck with me, and when we won that game I was looking for him."

 

For a number of members on that team, redemption was a major factor. Not for the 1994 season – or in Hali's case, for being slighted – but for the embarrassing 33-7 loss to eventual national champion Miami (FL) in the season and home opener in 2001. "The year prior was the same situation, we had Miami coming in," Capone recalls. "We didn't fare too well in that game, so [Nebraska] was redemption for that game."

 

Jay Paterno didn't join the Penn State staff until 1995, but that sure didn't stop him from feeling disappointed after his father, legendary Penn State coach Joe Paterno, wasn't awarded at least a split national title in '94.

 

While fans, alumni and national pundits spent the weeks leading up talking about the '94 controversy, the coaching staff kept the players focused. Capone said the '94 injustice was something that was rarely mentioned in the locker room. The team's focus on the future and not the past left Jay confident his team would be in good position for the upset.

 

"Thursday night we were walking off the practice field, and I really felt like we were gonna play really, really well," Jay said. "But, I didn't think it would go that well."

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"Nebraska's back," an excited Pelini said after the Cornhuskers' Holiday Bowl win over Arizona, "and we're here to stay."

 

The 33-0 whipping Nebraska put on the Wildcats and Pelini's lifelong friend, Arizona coach Mike Stoops, certainly had the look of a coming-out party to announce the Cornhuskers' return to the national stage.

 

The rest of Pelini's bold statement undoubtedly was a vow to not let the proud Cornhuskers program slip to the depths of where he found it when he replaced Bill Callahan.

 

Unfortunately, it certainly didn't apply to Nebraska's future in the Big 12 Conference. As we discovered last month, the Cornhuskers would like to join the Big Ten Conference immediately.

 

"I think if you're going to make a change," NU athletic director Tom Osborne said while accepting the Big Ten's invitation, "you'd like to do it tomorrow."

 

Tomorrow won't come for the Cornhuskers until the 2011 football season, which means at least eight Big 12 teams will get one last crack at Nebraska. It could be nine if the Cornhuskers prove Pelini right by advancing to the Big 12 championship game.

 

Yes, Colorado is also jumping the Big 12's ship.

But the Buffaloes have become so irrelevant under coach Dan Hawkins that a win over CU won't be nearly as sweet or significant as handing Nebraska a defeat as its parting gift.

 

In a sentimentalist's perfect world, Oklahoma and Nebraska will meet in the Big 12's final title game.

 

Perfection would include the Sooners and Cornhuskers both standing 12-0 when they arrive in Arlington, Texas, on Dec. 4, with a spot in the BCS national championship game on the line.

 

It would be 1971 all over again for Big Eight traditionalists. The two Big Reds playing for the highest stakes while meeting for the final time as conference members.

 

OU and Nebraska won't play in the 2010 regular season. If the old Big Eight's fiercest rivalry doesn't happen in the Big 12 championship contest, a future bowl game could be the only opportunity for them to meet again.

 

Many in the national media want to see a Nebraska-Texas rematch in the Big 12 title tilt at Cowboys Stadium. But they won't have to wait that long; the Longhorns travel to Lincoln for an Oct. 16 meeting that's already being over-hyped as a "bloodbath."

 

The bitterness that remains from last season's controversial end in the league's title game will certainly test Nebraska's claim of having "the greatest fans in college football."

 

OU needs to do its part to make this Big Eight/Big 12 dream finale become a reality. The Sooners must snap their two-game losing streak against Texas on Oct. 2 in Dallas in the 105th edition of the Red River Rivalry first.

 

Texas could not care less about all the tradition and history in the OU-Nebraska series. The Longhorns have owned Nebraska (8-1) in Big 12 play and have won four of the last five October meetings with OU inside Cotton Bowl Stadium.

 

Osborne acknowledged at last month's press conference that "it may not be a real easy year for us on the athletic field."

 

The Huskers certainly won't find any welcome wagon waiting for them on conference road trips to Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Iowa State and Texas A&M.

 

But Nebraska's shot at going 12-0 is certainly better than OU's because the Huskers have a Bill Snyder-like nonconference schedule. A Sept. 18 trip to Washington could get interesting, but home dates against Western Kentucky, Idaho and South Dakota State won't be as challenging as a mid-week scrimmage against the scout team.

 

Bob Stoops spent seven seasons on Snyder's staff at K-State. But OU's 2010 nonconference games indicate the Sooners coach either didn't learn the benefits of Snyder's creampuff scheduling philosophy or doesn't subscribe to it.

 

At least not yet. Stoops might change his mind after a road trip to Cincinnati and home contests against Florida State and Air Force after opening against Utah State on Owen Field.

 

OU's Big 12 schedule is also full of potential potholes. After the Texas showdown in Big D, the Sooners must travel to Missouri, Texas A&M, Baylor and OSU.

 

Phil Steele's preseason magazine is the only one predicting OU will be 12-0 the first Saturday in December.

 

If Steele's right, the Sooners just might get the opportunity to test Pelini's "Nebraska's back" claim.

 

The Huskers, of course, could lose to Texas and still play for the championship. But 12-0 Nebraska vs. 12-0 Oklahoma for the Big 12 title sounds like the perfect ending

Anthony Blue & Niles Paul

I put this together because of the endless abyss that is the off season.

 

pretty cool man, whos the song by? i love the epicness. Also what program do you use to edit your movies. I have windows 7 and have been looking to pick a program to put something together.

I'm really not sure about the song. I use Adobe Premiere CS3, but Vegas Pro is another good program.