HuskerfaninOkieland
Heisman Trophy Winner
Dan Cook was a nervous wreck in 1971 during the Game of the Century.
He remembers the dirt floor beneath the stands. He retreated there momentarily because the pressure was tearing him to pieces. Top-ranked Nebraska and No. 2 Oklahoma were trading punches in Norman, Okla., and it was clear this brawl would endure to the final bell.
“I was so nervous, I felt a gagging sensation at one point,” said Cook, now 72, a longtime and prominent Husker booster. “I thought to myself, ‘This is absolute idiocy. It’s just a damned game.’”.....
“I’m very disappointed in the progress of the program,” said Jensen, a bank computer software mogul from Lincoln and part of a four-man partnership that owns the Arizona Diamondbacks. He’s been a strong Pederson supporter.
However, “I expected a lot more this year, and I’m not the only one,” Jensen said. “There’s a general undercurrent of severe discontent. The chemistry of the program is out of whack. Something is seriously wrong. There are too many people incredibly upset.”
Of course, it is those words that will reverberate loudest inside the Nebraska athletic complex. When big-money folks become restless, and when they tell the world they’re restless, well, that’s a red flag you don’t want hanging on your porch, folks.
LJS
He remembers the dirt floor beneath the stands. He retreated there momentarily because the pressure was tearing him to pieces. Top-ranked Nebraska and No. 2 Oklahoma were trading punches in Norman, Okla., and it was clear this brawl would endure to the final bell.
“I was so nervous, I felt a gagging sensation at one point,” said Cook, now 72, a longtime and prominent Husker booster. “I thought to myself, ‘This is absolute idiocy. It’s just a damned game.’”.....
“I’m very disappointed in the progress of the program,” said Jensen, a bank computer software mogul from Lincoln and part of a four-man partnership that owns the Arizona Diamondbacks. He’s been a strong Pederson supporter.
However, “I expected a lot more this year, and I’m not the only one,” Jensen said. “There’s a general undercurrent of severe discontent. The chemistry of the program is out of whack. Something is seriously wrong. There are too many people incredibly upset.”
Of course, it is those words that will reverberate loudest inside the Nebraska athletic complex. When big-money folks become restless, and when they tell the world they’re restless, well, that’s a red flag you don’t want hanging on your porch, folks.
LJS
