Giving Thanks - For Husker Fans

[Roundball Shaman]

At this Thanksgiving time, let’s not forget to include giving thanks for a great treasure... Nebraska Cornhusker football fans.

No group of fans is more passionate.

No group of fans takes Husker players more into their own family (at least as a feeling) as do Husker fans.

No State has a football program that means more to State Identity and pride as is Nebraska and Nebraska folks.

No group of fans wants more desperately to be good and relevant again as do Husker fans.

No group of fans tries to be more fair and objective about the team and games than Husker fans.

No group of fans is more sportsmanlike and respectful of Husker opponents than Husker fans.

No group of fans could take the last 20-plus years of frustration and falling back from the heights of college ball as well as Husker fans have tried to cope.

Being a fan is not always about being rational. Or being fair. Or being a good sport. Or being reasonable about everything. That’s hard to manage when you are passionate about something. But Husker fans do this as well as anybody does.

Who does this better? No disrespect, but... Alabama folks? Notre Dame fans? Oklahoma? Ohio State? Michigan? Florida? Can’t make a case for any of them over Husker fans. Or anybody else.

So, Husker fans, give thanks for... all of us. We choose to invest our valuable time and energy into this football program. It defines us, and we define what Husker football is and has been in its great history.

And maybe one day soon, Charlie Brown WILL kick that football after all. And the Huskers will rule the Top Ten roost again.

[Jason Sitoke]

No group of fans are more despised for their self-anointed exceptionalism. 

[Guy Chamberlin]

I thought Charlie Brown WAS kicking our field goals.