The Eyes of a HUSKER Child.
Here are some of the responses to the article.
I couldn't agree with you more!!! Very
well said!!! I think all Husker fans need to read your article!!!
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You are indeed, a FAN of the first order - an excellent analogy.
BIg Red Fan - Redondo Beach, CA.
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Wow! Great article. Give that man a free membership!
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WOW...the best article I've seen written in a very long time. Whether
they win or lose, they will always be our HUSKERS!
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That is the best way I have seen it put about the current coaching staff
and players. I too am tired of the "so-called" fans of Nebraska
that only sit back and criticize. It makes me ill.
I too sat through the games of the 80's and 90's agonizing over the losses
that prevented National Championship's. But I stayed true and kept telling
everyone that N.C.'s will come. TO was just too good not to adapt.
Big Red football is the best...BC is doing what needs to be done. Time
will sort everything out. I just don't want the critics of today to become
fans of tomorrow.
Thanks for the article...well said!!!
Husker 4 Life in PA
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Wonderfully written. Thank you !!
and GO BIG RED ALWAYS !!
Mo
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Awesome, I could not say it better. I have followed the Huskers for 20
years and remember those days. Also being a Raider fan I remember it took
5 years for Chucky and BC to get A PRO FOOTBALL TEAM to be able to run
the WCO effectively.
I am so sick of all these people that became fans in 1994, who never remember
anything but 3 MNC in 4 years and alomost a 4th in 5 years being so negative.
Well enough ranting, let this Georgia person know that right up the road
a fan from Tennessee feels the same way.
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Great read, I think it is right on the mark.This is a fun and new time
for us huskers. The games are now not predictable. Every sat is exciting.
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That was a great article and I tip my hat to you. As one who attended
every game and cheered as loud as I could all last year I am horrified
at the attitudes that I hear and the people that actually try not to like
this team. While I will be glad when those people get back on the bandwagon
I will be sad knowing that they are not real fans because real fans stand
by their team during the rebuilding years not just when they win.
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Awesome! Someone level headed and full of sense. What a great article!
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Perspective and wisdom, thanks.
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I love the Article. I can honestly say that our Huskers are on the road
back to greatness; you can hear it in their comments and see it in there
play. They are a family again and the third child was born Oct. 1st in
the middle of a Cyclone.
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Great article! What I've been saying all along... sort of!
My son is going back to Iraq for his second tour in a few days. When this war kicked-off, Erik was there. What I felt was the American people, no matter what party you were affiliated with, or what you thought of the whole war effort - everyone got behind the troops. Support these folks, they're there because they have to be - give them your support!
This Husker team, this coaching staff
- they're in place, Frank's not coming back - moot point! Get behind this
team and support them and the coaches!
I'm a little older than you, my dad was getting his MS in '71 and '72,
I actually got to attend at 11or 12 years of age some of those games and
watched Tagge, Kinney and Rogers run rampant on folks. Watched opponent's
offensive lines quake when Glover and Jacobson walked up to the line...
I remember Tom Osborne, "Why, he's no Bob Devaney - get him outtta'
there!!" was the chant. I was a freshman in '78 at UNL when we BEAT
OKLAHOMA!!! (With freshman seats, by the time we got to the field the
south goal post was down and the north one was at about a 30 degree angle...).
So, Tom was no Bob. Frank was no Tom. Bill just has to be Bill and we
just have to support them all and watch them as they... learn to walk
and run.
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Very interesting. It was UCLA. We lost 20-17 on a last minute field goal.
I cried. It was the first time I had experienced losing as a husker fan.
I was 11. A guy named Mark Harmon was the QB of UCLA. Yes, the actor.
I still don’t like him. (just joking). You didn’t mention
losing to National champ Clemson in ’81 (with Refrigerator Perry),
or finishing 3rd in ’82 behind Penn St and SMU (SMU had Eric Dickerson)
and our only loss that year was to Penn St when they caught two passes
out our bounds. Of course ’83 when we went for two and didn’t
get it….
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I just read this article and oh how it hits home. Me being a displaced
Husker in California. I new Nebraska Football as a kid playing in the
cliffs of Sidney, to my days in high school in Grand Island. My father
bread this into me,as well as my uncles and cousins. The talk on saturdays
wasn't what we were going to be doing,because we always new, no matter
what the job, the radio or TV was there for us Huskers....The thing about
it is, once its in your blood in never dies, no matter how many games
they lose or who is the coach. I for one believe that Coach Calahan will
turn this program into something special. Look at the talent level since
he has taken over as the head Coach....I am sure that there is more in
store for us,but remember this,....Once a husker always a husker!!!!
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For those who want immediate results, this article should help us reflect
on the meaning of college football as well as the meaning of life. Thanks
for reminding us.
Bill of Santa Rosa, CA and lifelong BIG RED FAN
PS: While in college I worked for two football season for Pop Klein under
the East Stadium making the hot dogs - great memories
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That was one of the best things I have read in a long time about the Huskers.
The comparisons in the writing are wonderful and should impress anyone
that understands anything about football, at least Husker football. I
live in Colorado now, but I was born and raised in Nebraska. Even the
Colorado fans wonder why Nebraska fans are taking more shots at themselves
than they are as are big rival. This was just the right thing to be said,
by someone I would call a friend.
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