On The Street: Is There Something Missing from Nebraska Football This Season?

by Cobby on Nov 1, 2011 2:00 PM CDT in Cobby - Humor

From time to time, CN likes to take the pulse of Husker Nation. This week's question:

Is There Something Missing from Nebraska Football This Season?

As long as Sexy Rexy is around there ain't nothing missing from this team.I'm thinking endless replays....

The defense is missing a guy who can hit another guy so hard he poops!

I don't understand why they need so many of these kids to play offense and defense.They should make them play both ways for the whole game and make it so they can't substitute either. I'll bet there ain't a damn one of these kids that could make it through three quarters these days without falling over. Bunch of momma's boys if you ask me.

Despite the huge win over Michigan State and taking over first place in our division, I feel emotionally detached, not from the Husker team, which I still love more than my dog, but from the essence of why I enjoy Husker football so much in the first place. I find myself not as passionate as I used to be, not because I've gotten older or wiser, but because of one of the base reasons why we root for sport in the first place.

In past years a win like last weekend would been made much sweeter by buying a beer at the bar and with a smile and a nod knowing that everyone in the place felt the same way - that it wasn't just a game, it was a battle of our moral standards over theirs, that Nebraska was full of good people who were better than all the other states around us.

We see in our opponents our enemies, and in in this first year of Big Ten play we don't have any real enemies.

No one in the Big Ten every tried to tear Eric Crouch's head off and not get called for it. No one in the Big Ten has screwed us over by getting a second put back on a clock in a conference championship game. No Big Ten team ruined countless holidays by beating us and repeatedly costing us championships while all the while having an obnoxious coach named "Barry" who cheated all the time.

Now it's just "Yay, we beat a team we haven't played in six decades and we might get into a big game". It's not "Yay, we beat the evil meth-addicted bastards from Missouri who once supported racism so fanatically they went into another state, burned down a town and killed scores of people."

Victory over such evil doers was made so much sweeter by knowing there was someone in a bar in Columbia or Boulder drinking a beer with a tear chaser.

It's just not the same right now.

I realize the incidents that inspire such hate will occur as time goes on. It's unavoidable. A part of me wishes they would happen sooner so that I might once again know the passion of sports hatred, but another part knows that such incidents occur typically occur with loss or injury and I am not anxious to see either this season.

It's just too damned bad something can't be done about it.

Oh.... but perhaps there is, sir. Perhaps there is..... (to be continued....)

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I am missing

most of the Big 8 schools calling us backstabbers and turncoats even though they would have left if in our position. Oh wait…..I am NOT missing that drama.

by JimmytheRed on Nov 1, 2011 3:15 PM CDT reply actions

If you want to relive that, pretend you're a Mizzou or Aggie fan!

A Cornhusker through feast or famine. Get up, dust yourself off and run the ball. That's the Nebraska way.

by Salt Creek and Stadium on Nov 1, 2011 8:38 PM CDT up reply actions

Agreed that we lack some hate

Right now we are playing the B1G teams versus the godless Horns and Sooners. No more cheating Aggies and Red Raiders plus the other worthless SOB’s we played. Now next year we will have a big dislike for Wis when they come around and the Hawkeyes will deserve a good beating. By the third year we will have our righteous victories over the morally corrupt enemies. Right now we don’t know them well enough to really dislike them. Oh, but it is coming.

Insert witty retort here.

by Robsa on Nov 1, 2011 4:51 PM CDT reply actions

We haven't been to Happy Valley yet.

A Cornhusker through feast or famine. Get up, dust yourself off and run the ball. That's the Nebraska way.

by Salt Creek and Stadium on Nov 1, 2011 8:38 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

If you can't hate Ohio State

you’re not trying hard enough.

by huskernutt on Nov 1, 2011 5:56 PM CDT reply actions

But they all have such cool tatoo's.

Insert witty retort here.

by Robsa on Nov 1, 2011 6:48 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs

Ohio State is

easy. Northwestern. That’s hard.

by Cobby on Nov 1, 2011 9:46 PM CDT up reply actions

I hate NW because they belong in the B1G less than we do, but will never admit it.

They’re like an Ivy League team to me. Nerds who insist on masquerading as a school with decent sports, and located in a big city. Seriously, if they weren’t in the conference from day one, they’d never have been invited. Kinda like my uncle Levi at Christmas.

But don’t try to argue with them, they’ll just tell you how much smarter they are than you. That’s when we beat the piss out of them and laugh hysterically as we take their girlfriend behind the bus.

"Not the victory but the action; Not the goal but the game;
In the deed the glory"

GO BIG RED!

by Brian Speers on Nov 2, 2011 8:08 AM CDT up reply actions

And they try to claim that they are the "REAL" NU!

Everyone knows they are jNW

So I tried the Barbasol and Rotel dip and I was very dissapointed!

by Amonra on Nov 2, 2011 11:22 AM CDT up reply actions

Actually

Our first B1G Championship was earned in “DEBATE!”, so I guess we are the smart nerds. Did I spell that right?

by SONOFLY on Nov 2, 2011 10:16 AM CDT via mobile reply actions

Well, we did sweet-talk our way into the Big Ten.

Before all the nation’s “elite” minds decided we weren’t metropolitan enough to be part of their “smart kids” group.

But yeah, go ahead and cut out the agriculture schools. Who’ll be laughing when they run out of food?

A Cornhusker through feast or famine. Get up, dust yourself off and run the ball. That's the Nebraska way.

by Salt Creek and Stadium on Nov 2, 2011 11:53 AM CDT up reply actions

Now, Get It Straight

“Before all the nation’s "elite" minds decided we weren’t metropolitan enough to be part of their "smart kids" group.”

It was TEXAS! Yeah, TEXAS is the reason we got kicked out of the AAU! Drink the conspiracy theory Kool Aid (it is so sweeeeeet). Treacherous sons a bitches had a vendetta because we dared leave the Big 12.
Yeah, that’s the ticket (use your John Lovitz’s SNL “Tommy Flanagan” voice).

"Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?"

by UltimaRatioRegum on Nov 2, 2011 2:27 PM CDT up reply actions