Favorite quote about Nebraska

[BIG ERN]

Looking for some help on favorite quotes said about Nebraska football. Whether it is about the fans, teams, stadium etc. The time said doesn't matter either.

 

 

“When you walk in here, you see nothing but red. I can’t recall walking into another stadium and seeing such an amazing, monochromatic scene and so much loyalty. This crowd can become on of the most intimidating in college football”

 

— Chris Fowler - ESPN Broadcaster

[3gunhusker]

I'll give you mine, after waiting 60 years to come to your temple.

 

"Heck with OZ, this is the place."

[Pasadena Husker]

The following is taken from the writings of Willa Cather when she was a student at the University of Nebraska. She is talking about football in general (actually references some of the players in the quotes below), but since she was a student at UNL and fan of the University football team, i think it is appropriate

 

"Of course it [football] is brutal. So is Homer brutal, and Tolstoi; that is, they all alike appeal to the crude savage instincts of men. We have not outgrown all our old animal instincts yet, heaven grant we never shall! The moment that, as a nation, we lose brute force, or an admiration for brute force, from that moment poetry and art are forever dead among us, and we will have nothing but grammar and mathematics left. The only way poetry can ever reach one is through one’s brute instincts. “Charge of the Light Brigade,” or “How they brought good news to Aix,” move us in exactly the same way that one of Mr. Shue’s runs or Mr. Yont’s touchdowns do, only not half so intensely. A good football game is an epic, it rouses the oldest part of us."

 

"Taken as a game, it is a royal one. It is one of the few survivals of the heroic. It is as strictly Anglo-Saxon as fencing is Latin. It is founded on the bulldog strength which is the bulwark of the English people. It has in it something of the old stubborn strength that goes clear back to the day of the Norman conquest. The descendants of King Harold can never be entirely gentlemen; there must always be a little of the barbarian lurking in them somewhere. When the last trace of that vital spark, that exultation of physical powers, that preference of strength to dexterity, that fury of animal courage dies out of the race, then providence will be done with us and will have some new barbarian people ready to come and conquer."

 

-Willa Cather

[JJ Husker]

"There is no place like Nebraska"

 

From a song I once heard.

[NM11046]

I'll give you mine, after waiting 60 years to come to your temple.

 

"Heck with OZ, this is the place."

THIS! It's so heartfelt and personal and it makes me smile 3gun. (and it's OUR temple - you're in the fam now)

[cornhuskers4ever]

"Oh shiiiiiiiii....."

Every Opponent in 1995 in Memorial Stadium

[Redux]

Damn your stadium is amazing.

[Count 'Bility]

"Whenever you play Nebraska you always talk about stopping the run. Which to me is a lot like stopping the snow in february in Lincoln. You aint gonna do it. "

 

Keith Jackson

Pregame comments.

1994 UCLA game.

[Roll Skers]

After the first series, I told myself "this isnt high school anymore"

 

-Brad Kaaya after the Husker game. 2014

[huKSer]

“Man, woman and child did that put 'em in the aisles! Johnny ‘The Jet’ Rodgers just tore 'em loose from their shoes!”

[The Dude]

"America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed."

 

-Eleanor Roosevelt

[Moiraine]

"America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed."

 

-Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

You'd think I would've heard that one by now. Where'd you find this treasure?

[hosker]

I'm paraphrasing because I can't find the quote right now, but its on the back-jacket of one of Osbourne's or Devany's books. From a K-St lineman from the 90's.

 

When asked what it was like playing those Huskers he said "You'd go out there and line up across from them, and even before the first snap you would be intimidated by there size and physicality. By what you knew was about to happen. You would feel every hit for a month. They would beat you up, they would break you mentally, you wouldn't want to play football ever again, they'd push you down into the mud and leave you bloody and bruised... After all that, they'd reach down into the mud, and help you to your feet. And they'd line-up again for the next play. We had to do that for four quarters."

[The Dude]

 

"America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

You'd think I would've heard that one by now. Where'd you find this treasure?

The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

[JJ Husker]

 

 

"America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

 

You'd think I would've heard that one by now. Where'd you find this treasure?

The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

"If you don't chew Big Red, f#ck you"

Ricky Bobby