Decade of Dominance - Five Underrated Games from the 1990s

[Landlord]

Another game from that year that gets almost no attention was the Wyoming game in Lincoln. I'm still convinced we lose that game had the Wyoming punt returner not botched the catch. The season more than likely would have taken a different course had we dropped that one.

I was at that game. It was nerve-wracking. They kept running the same damned play over and over, and we kept falling for it over and over.

Got an ugly deja vu of that game watching 2011 Northwestern.

Is that the one where the Wyoming quarterback got not-another-teen-movie'd by two defenders?

That clip used to be on youtube somewhere.

 

[Guy Chamberlin]

Watching a game from 1992 and a couple things really jumped out:

You could exert a lot of violence on a quarterback without penalty.

A fullback as a lead blocker is a pretty handy thing.

The networks had zero permanent graphics on their screen.

I kinda like that clean look, but I'm not sure I could live without the game status box and yellow first down line anymore.

 

[BigRedBuster]

Everyone knows about the National Championship games. Everyone knows about the 1997 Missouri game, the 1993 Florida State game, the 1999 Iowa game (think Eric Crouch trucking some Iowegian DB)...

... but there were other games, important games from that era, that some may have forgotten. I stumbled across a website featuring those games. With apologies for this guy's third-person writing style (

), here for your viewing pleasure are some great, but overshadowed, games from the best decade of Husker Football.

LINK

Highlighted, for me, among these games is the 1992 Colorado game. Both teams ranked #8. Colorado coming off an unprecedented string of success against Nebraska in the modern era. Halloween. Driving sleet. Frigid temps.

And a Husker crowd that would roar for three straight hours. It was one of the greatest games I've ever seen live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2dF4kZmKn8

Watching this reminded me of the violence that NU played with on both sides of the ball. I didn't realize the difference between BP's 2 gap read-and-react, and the way NU attacked back then. Even the NU blocking receivers kept up their blocks with an attitude throughout the play. I can see why NU intimidated so many teams back then. Please Lord, bring it back.

Yeah....but what the heck was that OC thinking. First, he gets the ball given to him on the 10 yard line and he calls two pass plays. Then, during that series and the next, he seems to be in love with running the option to the short side of the field. We are just lucky we scored on that first series from the 10 yard line. We had to actually punt on the next series.

Good thing he had a good defense because play calling like that just can't get it done.

I had to stop watching after that I was so pissed off.

 

[CheeseHusker]

A personal favorite game of mine. An ugly first half gave way to an exciting second on an unbelievably cold afternoon. Nebraska fell behind early and then lost Trev Alberts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okn0eiA2HHU

I was at this game. I wore light socks & thin canvas shoes. By the time the game was over I couldn't feel my feet below the ankle. I legit thought I was going to fall going down the steps to get out of the stadium. I couldn't feel my feet until I had walked to the parking garage, about three blocks away.

I was 16; it was my second game back after moving out of Nebraska (the Kansas game the year before was the first) - I was sitting to the right of the press box in the absolute highest row of the second deck. We all drove from Wisconsin to surprise my grandmother for her 70th birthday and about 10 of us went to the game together, but all our seats were in pairs scattered around the stadium. My cousin and I drew the short straw. There was some kind of red tarp stretched over the chain link fence at the very top of the stadium and it was whipping around all day and whacking us in the back. Eventually a couple of older people left and we moved down a couple of rows.

I had an older cousin who asked me to make an ABC sign that said "Another Bone Chiller"; they got it on TV somewhere during the first half of the game, and Musberger used the phrase a couple of times later in the broadcast. Unfortunately it seems to have been edited out of the video (I think it was right after a commercial or possibly during halftime).

I was on the field at the end in the south end zone when the student section rushed the goal posts. When we were driving back to my grandmother's house later, there were people walking up both sides of O Street with chunks of the goal post.

One of the best days of my life.

 

[BigRedBuster]

A personal favorite game of mine. An ugly first half gave way to an exciting second on an unbelievably cold afternoon. Nebraska fell behind early and then lost Trev Alberts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okn0eiA2HHU

I was at this game. I wore light socks & thin canvas shoes. By the time the game was over I couldn't feel my feet below the ankle. I legit thought I was going to fall going down the steps to get out of the stadium. I couldn't feel my feet until I had walked to the parking garage, about three blocks away.

I was 16; it was my second game back after moving out of Nebraska (the Kansas game the year before was the first) - I was sitting to the right of the press box in the absolute highest row of the second deck. We all drove from Wisconsin to surprise my grandmother for her 70th birthday and about 10 of us went to the game together, but all our seats were in pairs scattered around the stadium. My cousin and I drew the short straw. There was some kind of red tarp stretched over the chain link fence at the very top of the stadium and it was whipping around all day and whacking us in the back. Eventually a couple of older people left and we moved down a couple of rows.

I had an older cousin who asked me to make an ABC sign that said "Another Bone Chiller"; they got it on TV somewhere during the first half of the game, and Musberger used the phrase a couple of times later in the broadcast. Unfortunately it seems to have been edited out of the video (I think it was right after a commercial or possibly during halftime).

I was on the field at the end in the south end zone when the student section rushed the goal posts. When we were driving back to my grandmother's house later, there were people walking up both sides of O Street with chunks of the goal post.

One of the best days of my life.

Those are expensive premium seats now.

 

[knapplc]

I was on the field at the end in the south end zone when the student section rushed the goal posts. When we were driving back to my grandmother's house later, there were people walking up both sides of O Street with chunks of the goal post.

One of the best days of my life.

A guy in my building still has his chunk of this goalpost. Showed me a couple years ago. Said they used the same hacksaw to cut everyone a chunk, and by the time they were done that saw was worn down smooth.

 

[MichiganDad3]

Everyone knows about the National Championship games. Everyone knows about the 1997 Missouri game, the 1993 Florida State game, the 1999 Iowa game (think Eric Crouch trucking some Iowegian DB)...

... but there were other games, important games from that era, that some may have forgotten. I stumbled across a website featuring those games. With apologies for this guy's third-person writing style (

), here for your viewing pleasure are some great, but overshadowed, games from the best decade of Husker Football.

LINK

Highlighted, for me, among these games is the 1992 Colorado game. Both teams ranked #8. Colorado coming off an unprecedented string of success against Nebraska in the modern era. Halloween. Driving sleet. Frigid temps.

And a Husker crowd that would roar for three straight hours. It was one of the greatest games I've ever seen live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2dF4kZmKn8

Watching this reminded me of the violence that NU played with on both sides of the ball. I didn't realize the difference between BP's 2 gap read-and-react, and the way NU attacked back then. Even the NU blocking receivers kept up their blocks with an attitude throughout the play. I can see why NU intimidated so many teams back then. Please Lord, bring it back.

I just watched the replay,and I completely agree with you. What a thing of beauty:

• The defense attacking every play
• OL pounding the crap out of DBs down field, and my favorite
• Fullback up the middle