Roundball Shaman Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 The Cornhuskers have been playing football for generations. They’ve played through previous pandemics and World Wars. Through Great Depressions and Great Recessions. Through good times and bad. In 2020, the Huskers may try to play a shortened season amidst a stubborn virus and ongoing national turmoil. We have health advisories and bureaucrat-ordered edicts coming at us from every direction. There are more Executive Orders being thrown around today than footballs on a normal Autumn Friday night all the way from Omaha to Scottsbluff. Will fans be allowed at Husker games? Will HUSKERS be allowed at Husker games? If only Nostradamus were here to tell us. Maybe they play in front of a few fans. Maybe they play in front of no fans. Maybe they don’t play at all. One thing for sure, they’re certainly not playing before a Sea of Red. And the Sea of Red IS what Nebraska football is all about. Maybe we give the big football decision makers credit for trying to patch together a season. Who really wants to lose an entire year of football. On the other hand, can you try to play football when the other team on the field is not your real opponent? All the players on both sides of the line are playing more against the virus than they will be against each other. The Frankenstein monster was patched together from various parts. That would seem to describe the 2020 Huskers and NCAA football season as well. It just isn’t Husker football without a packed stadium of fans enjoying themselves. And not just a few fans scattered around with "Proper Social Distancing!" and wearing cloth over their faces and worried about getting sick. It is real humans sitting outside with their faces free of cloth and minds off of the problems of the world. It’s not football if you’ve got to watch out for some self-appointed-do-gooder-social-director-hall-monitor in your face because you’re doing something in the stadium or elsewhere they don’t happen to like. Whatever is to come, one thing all Husker fans can agree upon is that we want this damn virus gone and our lives to get back to normal. REAL normal, not New Normal, whatever the blank that is supposed to be. And we want to see real Husker football, not just a Frankenstein season. 1 Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 1 minute ago, Cdog923 said: "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." - Frank Caliendo 1 Quote Link to comment
84HuskerLaw Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 Its been a Frankenstein century really! Bring back the real monster that is Husker football circa 1965-2000! Its long overdue. Stick with our players, coaches, school and fans! Husker football will rise from the dead - just need that one big lightening bolt to bring it too life! 1 Quote Link to comment
Guy Chamberlin Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 2 hours ago, 84HuskerLaw said: Husker football will rise from the dead - just need that one big lightening bolt to bring it too life! That was the Akron game and it seemed to backfire. Maybe we need to go the Miracle Max route: 1 1 Quote Link to comment
84HuskerLaw Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 Yes if only theyd played that Akron game, maybe the lightening would have struck the life. Quote Link to comment
Undone Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 Eh, I'll be happy with Husker football in any form at this point. 1 Quote Link to comment
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