NEW TUNNELWALK?!?!

[Scratchtown]

Sorry about being obnoxious but gotta generate clicks

 

 

The Colorado Rockies use this as their entrance just before they take the field to begin the game. Nebraska's is great, but I wouldn't mind seeing something "new"

 

[Apathy]

God I hate these kind of threads.Every.Year

[Saunders]

[DomiNUs]

I have been thinking something new would be nice as well. IMO, this doesn't sound as good as what we already have though. Maybe it sounds better in-stadium.

[True2tRA]

Don't change a thing.

[Saunders]

Don't change a thing.

Agreed. I even want them to stop with the American flag thing.

 

/ducks

[Enhance]

So you essentially want the football team to turn into candy-ravers?

[True2tRA]

The American flag thing is pretty cool Saunders, I'd keep that. Anything to honor our soldiers, we do. It is after all, Memorial Stadium.

 

Question: How often do veteran soldiers escort the team and/or the flag out the gates? I've seen it a few times I believe? Is this a certain game or do they do it often? You can't always see that part on television and I don't make it to a lot of games.

 

I would like seeing that as something we did regularly.

[Saunders]

My biggest gripe with the flag, is that it feels really forced. We only started doing it within the last few years, and with that and the smoke machines, it's starting to look like Texas. I'm just not a fan.

[Minnesota_husker]

Do you lose a sell out streak if a bunch of people die in your stadium?

 

Because if they played this as the new tunnel walk song, the blue hairs would shake their hair so aggressively we would lose half our fan base.

[knapplc]

The American flag thing is pretty cool Saunders, I'd keep that. Anything to honor our soldiers, we do. It is after all, Memorial Stadium.

 

Question: How often do veteran soldiers escort the team and/or the flag out the gates? I've seen it a few times I believe? Is this a certain game or do they do it often? You can't always see that part on television and I don't make it to a lot of games.

 

I would like seeing that as something we did regularly.

 

A Color Guard takes the flag(s) out of the tunnel, onto the field, and presents for the Anthem. They introduce some veterans for whatever home game is closest to Veteran's Day, and they always introduce the pilots/crew who do the flyovers, but that's about it for veteran involvement.

[Landlord]

I was talking with the university's music guy about the upcoming season and he's a little discouraged. Not much has come out recently that works well for a stadium/arena environment that hasn't been beaten absolutely to death, so nothing terribly new or exciting. This is the only decent song I've found that fits the trend of anthem beat rock of the last few years that isn't played by absolutely everyone

 

 

[NUance]

My biggest gripe with the flag, is that it feels really forced. We only started doing it within the last few years, and with that and the smoke machines, it's starting to look like Texas. I'm just not a fan.

 

 

Maybe a get-off-my-lawn graphic would've been more appropriate.

[True2tRA]

My biggest gripe with the flag, is that it feels really forced. We only started doing it within the last few years, and with that and the smoke machines, it's starting to look like Texas. I'm just not a fan.

The Iowa rivalry is forced. The American flag being carried out started here I think:

 

http://nebraska.247sports.com/Board/142/Contents/The-Husker-Flag-carried-onto-the-field-The-reason-5552303

 

 

One of our members shared this with me and gave me permission to share it with the group. In case you've been wondering about the significance of the flag the football team has carried out each week...here's the explanation:

Typically I have no use for sports analogies to war. Sports are not war. Sports are entertainment. But in the case of Jack Riggins' American flag, I'm happy to make an exception.

Riggins is a veteran Navy SEAL from Fremont, Neb. His official title is "Executive Officer for Naval Special Warfare Unit." He spent the past decade in Afghanistan fighting terrorists. There are football heroes. Riggins is a real hero.

Riggins is currently back in Afghanistan, but last month Riggins was back in his native Nebraska . He was invited to speak to the Nebraska football team. He did. And how.

According to players who were in the room, Riggins' speech blew them away. He was brutally honest. He told war stories. Real war stories.

He talked about growing up a Husker fan. He compared some of the missions he served on to some of the great victories in Nebraska football history. He fired up the Unity Council, saying, "As the Unity Council goes, so goes the 2011 season."

He fired up the whole room and by the end of it, the entire team wanted to follow him out the door.

Riggins left the Huskers one gift. An American flag. And not just any flag. He presented them the flag that he personally carried around Afghanistan for 10 years.

Nothing "forced" about that. Pretty cool actually. I hope they still carry that same flag.

[Saunders]

 

My biggest gripe with the flag, is that it feels really forced. We only started doing it within the last few years, and with that and the smoke machines, it's starting to look like Texas. I'm just not a fan.

 

 

Maybe a get-off-my-lawn graphic would've been more appropriate.