HuskerfaninOkieland
Heisman Trophy Winner
http://www.omaha.com/article/20121201/HUSKERS/712019792/1002#chatelain-old-us-ominously-returns
"You know the damnedest thing?
We thought they'd win. Almost everyone. That's the difference between this Big Ten championship and debacles of the past decade.
We woke up Saturday morning thinking this was the day — finally — Nebraska would bury the ghosts and dance on their grave. This was the day Nebraska would throw that 500-pound gorilla off its back and set its eyes on bigger dreams.
Instead, the 2012 season unfolded like a bad game of Chutes and Ladders. Struggle to the top, roll the wrong number and slide all the way down.
That's a lot of metaphors for four paragraphs. Bo Pelini volunteered another.
“Shock doesn't even begin to explain it,” Pelini said. “It was like a leaking boat. ... I've never been part of a game like that. At the end of the day, it falls on me. It falls directly on my shoulders.”
"You know the damnedest thing?
We thought they'd win. Almost everyone. That's the difference between this Big Ten championship and debacles of the past decade.
We woke up Saturday morning thinking this was the day — finally — Nebraska would bury the ghosts and dance on their grave. This was the day Nebraska would throw that 500-pound gorilla off its back and set its eyes on bigger dreams.
Instead, the 2012 season unfolded like a bad game of Chutes and Ladders. Struggle to the top, roll the wrong number and slide all the way down.
That's a lot of metaphors for four paragraphs. Bo Pelini volunteered another.
“Shock doesn't even begin to explain it,” Pelini said. “It was like a leaking boat. ... I've never been part of a game like that. At the end of the day, it falls on me. It falls directly on my shoulders.”
