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Pre-horror days:Omaha attorney confesses to 1972 Memorial Stadium card section prank
The score -- 62-0 -- was one of the more remarkable ones in the history of the Missouri-Nebraska football rivalry.
But what happened at halftime on Oct. 14, 1972, became a riveting whodunit.
Until now.
Someone switched the cards for the card section.
They were supposed to spell messages saluting the U.S. Navy in honor of its 197th anniversary. Instead, they read "Devaney for President," "Johnny R. (as in Rodgers) is shifty" and, finally -- cover your ears, kids -- "Screw Mizzou."
The prank caused a "monstrous rigmarole," in the words of a Daily Nebraskan editorial the following week.
There was an investigation. Newspapers ran front-page stories. University of Nebraska-Lincoln officials announced they had taken disciplinary action against those involved, but their names were kept secret.
Stuff like that belongs in the Woodshed, knapp.Nebraska used to have a card section. Then things went horribly, horribly wrong:
Pre-horror days:Omaha attorney confesses to 1972 Memorial Stadium card section prank
The score -- 62-0 -- was one of the more remarkable ones in the history of the Missouri-Nebraska football rivalry.
But what happened at halftime on Oct. 14, 1972, became a riveting whodunit.
Until now.
Someone switched the cards for the card section.
They were supposed to spell messages saluting the U.S. Navy in honor of its 197th anniversary. Instead, they read "Devaney for President," "Johnny R. (as in Rodgers) is shifty" and, finally -- cover your ears, kids -- "Screw Mizzou."
The prank caused a "monstrous rigmarole," in the words of a Daily Nebraskan editorial the following week.
There was an investigation. Newspapers ran front-page stories. University of Nebraska-Lincoln officials announced they had taken disciplinary action against those involved, but their names were kept secret.
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