Let's all start practicing this now

[scarletNcream]

Lived here all my life and work in C.B.for years. Always wore a N shirt or sweater to work on Saturday and played the game over the speakers just to upset Hawkeye fans. I never did understand why they hated Nebraska so much.

[tschu]

I never did understand why they hated Nebraska so much.

Penis envy

[champaignhusker]

I never did understand why they hated Nebraska so much.

Penis envy

 

This

[corncraze]

Yuck, forced rivalry crap again. It's the Colorado talk all over again. It won't be difficult for me to root for them vs MSU. I honestly don't feel one way or the other about their program.

 

Except the Nebraska Iowa rivalry is more natural.. Iowa has actually been relevant for awhile.. Whether you feel they suck or not isn't the thing. No where close to Colorado here.

So Colorado wasn't relevant when they were consistently a top program in the 1990's or when they were beating us in the early 2000's?

 

How is it more natural? Besides the Omaha/Council Bluffs folks, I think the majority of our fans don't really care about Iowa.

 

Honestly, I have never had a problem with Iowa.

 

Rivalries are formed over years of competition, which is something we haven't really had with any Big Ten team. How can we declare anyone as our rival right now? It makes no sense to me for our fans to point their fingers at a team and declare how much they hate that team, despite the fact we haven't even played them yet in our new conference.

 

You want it to be natural? Then stop forcing it. Let these rivalries form on their own.

[bshirt]

Yuck, forced rivalry crap again. It's the Colorado talk all over again. It won't be difficult for me to root for them vs MSU. I honestly don't feel one way or the other about their program.

 

Except the Nebraska Iowa rivalry is more natural.. Iowa has actually been relevant for awhile.. Whether you feel they suck or not isn't the thing. No where close to Colorado here.

So Colorado wasn't relevant when they were consistently a top program in the 1990's or when they were beating us in the early 2000's?

 

How is it more natural? Besides the Omaha/Council Bluffs folks, I think the majority of our fans don't really care about Iowa.

 

Honestly, I have never had a problem with Iowa.

 

Rivalries are formed over years of competition, which is something we haven't really had with any Big Ten team. How can we declare anyone as our rival right now? It makes no sense to me for our fans to point their fingers at a team and declare how much they hate that team, despite the fact we haven't even played them yet in our new conference.

 

You want it to be natural? Then stop forcing it. Let these rivalries form on their own.

 

Colorado was a vicious threat for years and even got a NC. Some bad hires (Callahan anybody?) can wreck anybody's program.

 

GBR!!

[notgoodatmath]

half an MNC...and only because Mizery is so stoopid they don't know how many downs you're supposed to get

[Ratt Mhule]

Who else would you people like to have a trophy game with? Every team in the B1G has one or two trophy games, its a tradition with them. Don't say UW or OSU because we don't play them every year, so that wouldn't work. It's just a trophy game, not a rivalry game (yet), get over it.

 

And just for the record, not every rivalry is based on mutual respect like Oklahoma. See OSU/UM. I HATED Colorado, so in my mind, they were a rival because I wanted to beat their ass every single year. Same with Missouri. Oklahoma was not a rival in the Big 12, no matter how much you don't want to admit it, it's true.

[huskerXman]

Yuck, forced rivalry crap again. It's the Colorado talk all over again. It won't be difficult for me to root for them vs MSU. I honestly don't feel one way or the other about their program.

 

Except the Nebraska Iowa rivalry is more natural.. Iowa has actually been relevant for awhile.. Whether you feel they suck or not isn't the thing. No where close to Colorado here.

So Colorado wasn't relevant when they were consistently a top program in the 1990's or when they were beating us in the early 2000's?

 

How is it more natural? Besides the Omaha/Council Bluffs folks, I think the majority of our fans don't really care about Iowa.

 

Honestly, I have never had a problem with Iowa.

 

Rivalries are formed over years of competition, which is something we haven't really had with any Big Ten team. How can we declare anyone as our rival right now? It makes no sense to me for our fans to point their fingers at a team and declare how much they hate that team, despite the fact we haven't even played them yet in our new conference.

 

You want it to be natural? Then stop forcing it. Let these rivalries form on their own.

 

Colorado was a vicious threat for years and even got a NC. Some bad hires (Callahan anybody?) can wreck anybody's program.

 

GBR!!

 

Funny how crappy they have gotten, still played us tough though. Just like Missouri always did.

[typ3kal]

UNL alum now at UofI for graduate school. I will not be cheering for the hawks. Instead I will be cheering for the wolverines and plan on being too drunk to care.

[JTrain]

To all the pride-obsessed guys... are you ready to root for Iowa now?

[It'sNotAFakeID]

Nope, but I'm all for rooting for NW

[C N Red]

BUMP!! We need this more than ever now!!

[BIGREDIOWAN]

I'll be rooting for them, if they can't beat MSU then I'll be a huge Indiana fan and Northwestern fan after that.

[Cy the Cyclone]

I'd rather marry a Kardascian...

[C N Red]

I'd rather marry a Kardascian...

If they could help the clones, as hard as it would be(and i know, believe me) you would root silently for them.