Blackshirt96 Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 One off-hand comment about nine wins got me thinking - we have tons of excuses for Husker Problems. They date back decades. Lately we've separated ourselves into a couple of camps (E or I), but that's just the most recent stuff. There's tons more. Excuse 24 - ESPN sucks and/or hates us. Excuse 39 - Tommie Frazier got robbed of the Heisman There are more. Tons and tons more. Help me out. These ones are not excuses Quote Link to comment
wildman Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 in my house this is the most common phrase yelled at the tv. "Hey ref are you f*cking blind that was holding." Then at the end of the game. "Well we lost again cause of the damn refs." Quote Link to comment
Redux Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 Top 10 Reasons we arent good 10-Bo Pelini doesnt care about black people (submitted by Kanye West) 9-Tom Osborne set the bar to high and or low 8-The y dont sell beer in the stadium 7-Smokers built Memorial stadium and you cant smoke in it. ITS OUTSIDE! 6-Bobby Bowden left an upper decker in east stadium that lingers to this day 5-Theres not enough cowbell 4-Bill Callahan is actually two elves stacked ontop of eachother 3-Santa put us on the naughty list after Frank got too frisky 2-Nebraska has the word BRA in it. Coincidence? 1-CRABTREEEEEEEE! Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted February 28, 2014 Author Share Posted February 28, 2014 Updated. The idea for this thread came from seeing #9wins. That happened to be in Foppa's post, but this is not a response to Foppa or anyone specifically at all. The art of making excuses dates back decades among our fans. That's what this is about. Quote Link to comment
The Dude Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 It's not the 90s anymore. Quote Link to comment
Redux Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 It's not the 90s anymore. YOU TAKE THAT BACK LEBOWSKI Quote Link to comment
StPaulHusker Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 I didn't wear the correct shirt-hat combo. Quote Link to comment
kchusker_chris Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 The announcers/analysts have no clue what they're talking about Quote Link to comment
Redux Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 The announcers/analysts have no clue what they're talking about I'll stand by that one most the time. Quote Link to comment
NUpolo8 Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 SportsonEarth hates "us" and wrote a ridiculous article about "us". Quote Link to comment
junior4949 Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 The excuses I probably use most are lack of in state talent and college tuition costs. I help coach high school track out here in western NE, and I can tell you that for the most part we don't have the athletes we did 20-30 years ago in central to western NE. I don't see a Conneally rambling down the track anymore. I don't see a Scott Frost dominating the shot put and then dominating the hurdle events. The other thing that has really hurt is college costs. What little talent we do have in NE typically elects to go play where they're offered a scholly rather than walking on at NE. This started happening towards the end of TO's reign and when Solich took over. We had some great walk on players during the NC run like the Mackovichas, Schlesinger, Tomich, etc. It doesn't appear we're getting the quality of walk on players we did several years ago. Quote Link to comment
Flood Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 What about the fact that Bo's cat had apparently been held hostage for years? And this fact was covered up by both the school and the coach? How many games did we lose because our head coach was worried out of his mind about the well-being of a feline? Hmmm . . . 3 Quote Link to comment
Vizsla1 Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Brent Musburger's open container ticket cost us votes in a poll Quote Link to comment
74Hunter Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Well, this is an enlightening thread. I guess I'm the fuddy-duddy, don't see much humor here. Quote Link to comment
NUpolo8 Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Well, this is an enlightening thread. I guess I'm the fuddy-duddy, don't see much humor here. Huskerboard isn't serious enough nor supportive of the players. They read this and get the sads, no wonder they lost to Minnesota. 2 Quote Link to comment
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