Lets Pray

[BIGREDIOWAN]

Hey maybe if you don't know the words you could not come in the thread and mess it up. This is something we do every Saturday, if you don't know the words, learn 'em, and then join in.

[HUSKER FREAK]

Now Lets Pray I can get my deer and be back before kickoff. Did I mention it might be cold out

[shabizzle]

A CHANCE TO EQUAL OUR STRIPES

that is still wrong its strife

[BIGREDIOWAN]

A CHANCE TO EQUAL OUR STRIPES

that is still wrong its strife

I don't think anyone knows anymore what's said there...............it's either stripes, stride, but I've never heard strife?

[Hercules]

Crap, the last time we messed up the prayer this bad was the Texas game.

[BIGREDIOWAN]

Crap, the last time we messed up the prayer this bad was the Texas game.

I know..............it's ridiculous.

[HuskerfaninOkieland]

I'm wondering if we shouldn't try again

[shabizzle]

A CHANCE TO EQUAL OUR STRIPES

that is still wrong its strife

I don't think anyone knows anymore what's said there...............it's either stripes, stride, but I've never heard strife?

well this prayer is an excerpt from a poem by berton braley

 

 

 

 

Prayer of a Sportsman

 

Dear Lord, in the battle that goes on through life

I ask but a field that is fair,

A chance that is equal with all in the strife,

A courage to strive and to dare;

 

And if should win, let it be by the code

With my faith and my honor held high;

And if I should lose, let me stand by the road,

And cheer as the winners go by.

 

And Lord, may my shouts be ungrudging and clear,

A tribute that comes from the heart,

And let me not cherish a snarl or a sneer

Or play any sniveling part;

 

Let me say, "There they ride, on whom laurel's bestowed

Since they played the game better than I."

Let me stand with a smile by the side of the road,

And cheer as the winners go by.

 

So grant me to conquer, if conquer I can,

By proving my worth in the fray,

But teach me to lose like a regular man,

And not like a craven, I pray;

 

Let me take off my hat to the warriors who strode

To victory splendid and high,

Yea, teach me to stand by the side of the road

And cheer as the winners go by.

 

Strife: a bitter sometimes violent conflict or dissension

 

unless the team changed it. I always thought it was strife.

[Fuzzy]

I've heard several times this prayer being said by the Huskers, and its "Stripes". Though many times when you see it written its "Stride". My conclusion is because maybe Strides just makes more sense for the Huskers than Stripes.

[PaulCrewe]

A CHANCE TO EQUAL OUR STRIPES

that is still wrong its strife

Wow, that is epic mistype failure there. I don't even know how I got a p there it's not even close to the f or d. My bad I'll take my timeout in the corner like a man.

 

To the word in question, shabizzle is correct. The word in the exerpt of the prayer strife, but I have no idea if the team may have changed it to stride(probably because they had no idea what the meaning of strife was). The posted prayer in the Husker traditions says stride, but originally it was/is strife.