H U S K E R D A N
PENN
STATE-MENT
Anticipation
Payback
Revenge
Packed House
A Husker home game at
night
In
September
The Bo
Attack
Demorrio
Williams
Joe
Dailey
The out-of-bounds "catch"
at Happy Valley in '82 that wasn't
Penn State's winning
TD "catch" in '82 that also wasn't
The Husker national
championship in '82 that wasn't
The national championship
for undefeated Penn State in '94 that wasn't
Tradition
Did I say
payback?
SUGAR
PLUMS
This is a big game.
Huge. Win it, and Husker fans will be thinking of sugar plums and a BCS
invite. Lose this sucker, and well, let's not even go
there.
It doesn't matter that the
Lions aren't rated, or that the Huskers are barely in the Top 20. This is
Revenge 2003, Part II, the second of 6 regular season losses to avenge from last
year.
GOOD
TEAM
Penn State is a good team
to play at this stage of the young Husker season. Nebraska, even
with its wobbly offense is 2-0 and are ranked #18 in both
polls. The Husker defense, if it continues to improve, could be one
of the best in school history. A game with a "name" opponent, at
home, at night, and a chance for redemption on 1/2 national TV, what more could
you ask for?
Well, for starters, the
Huskers need a win-any kind of win. We'll take it.
ZACH
ATTACK
Penn State has had its own
problems this season. Missing are many of the players that tattooed the
Huskers last year. But QB Zach Mills is back. But it may be a long
night for him, especially if the Demorrio and the Bo Shirts show
up.
LOUD
CROWD
It will be loud Saturday
night in Lincoln. It will be deafening. It will be jam-packed to the
rafters as Lyle Bremser would say. The joint will be jumpin'.
Husker fans are just licking their chops to see their team get some respect
and to avenge the 40-7 thumping the Lions laid on our Huskers in
Happy Valley last year.
WOE
JOE
JoPa has been
wringing his hands all week with his "Woe is us", "Aw shucks", and "We
ain't gotta a chance" statements. He says his Lion team is backed into a
corner. It's true, a cornered animal can be very dangerous,
unless of course, it has to go up against the relentless pursuit of
the Blackshirts and play in front of 78,000 rabid Husker fans who will be
screaming under the lights at Memorial Stadium.
MEMORIES
Many of today's Husker fans
have no memory of Penn State's extended playing field, or the trapped "catch"
for the touchdown that beat the Huskers 27-24 in '82. They don't
remember the next year, how the Scoring Explosion of '83 pasted the Lions
40-6 in East Rutherford, New Jersey in the Kickoff Classic.
It's too bad this series
won't be renewed for quite awhile. These are two of the winningest
football programs in all of college football. It's the Slicks verses the
Hicks (or so the Lions' fans call us).
Let's show the Lions what a
good old fashioned ass-whoopin' is like. Let's do it with class,
with bone jarring hits, inspired play on the offense, defense and
special teams. Let's be relentless in our pursuit. And if you are at
the game, yell until your lungs ache and your face hurts. Be polite
to the PSU fans and smile at them as they leave the game after the Huskers hand
them their butts in a bucket.
The Nittany Lions roared
last year, the Huskers will soar this year. Hold on, you heard it here
first!
HUSKERS
28
LIONS 10
GO
HUSKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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