So....what's the relationship between the two Fanbases/Schools out there?
Nebraska couldn't care less about Iowa. We have played 5 times in about the last 50 years. They are the same to us a Colorado St, Wyoming, Utah, MInnesota, Fresno St, Pacific, Arizona State, South Dakota St, or Florida Intl. If they are on our schedule, we care, it not, we don't give them a second thought. They are unspeakably offended by our indifference to them, and take that as a personal insult. They feel that we should be as obsessed with them as they are with us, and consider us to be arrogant and ignorant because we don't (ironic, isn't it?).
Iowa, however, is absolutely obsessed with Nebraska. Both Hawk and Clone fans hate us worse than the Nazis. Both are among the most thin skinned, inferiority complex ridden human beings I have ever been around. Both "fan" bases like to paint Husker fans as arrogant, conceited, stupid, and ignorant, which I find to be highly ironic. To Hawk fans, a Husker loss is better than a Hawk win. I can understand ISU hating Nebraska, since we have abused them since the inception of football, but Hawk fans are something else. They are complexed and offended that Nebraska sports media spends most of their time on Husker football. They are offended that people in Nebraska have the audacity to wear Husker shirts and support our team. They act as if Nebraska is a territory of Iowa, and we should be thankful that the great University of Iowa allows us and our program to exist (talk about arrogant). I am honestly afraid for the mental well being of any Hawk fan that comes to Lincoln Friday. They might just see about a hundred thousand people wearing red chanting "Go Big Red!!!!!" I don't think that with their fragile mental makeup, that they can handle such attrocities. They liken a little good natured ribbing from a Husker fan to a Husker fan walking into their family holiday dinner, punching their dad in the face, calling their mom a whore, peeing in their baby's bottle, and taking their wife back into their bedroom to have sex with her.
I don't know if I have seen a more sensitive, more inferior fan base. Maybe texa$$ fans, but I think that even Whorn fans have thicker skin.