Roundball Shaman
Four-Star Recruit
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.
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.
