Will The Booing Return To Memorial Stadium This Season?

Yes, yes it will, most likely on Oct. 8th when the Buckeyes are up by 14 (hopefully)

When someone next to you starts booing, smack them. Like your mom always said, “If you can’t say something nice…..”

Just kidding about the smacking. Kind of.

I have no doubt that a sizeable chunk of the booing last year happened because of the ugliness between NU and the Big 12.

That said, I think that although Husker fans tend to be more respectful than your average fanbase out there, it was a whole lot easier to be good sports about things when your team is winning 10.5 out of 11 games a year on average.

I’m hopeful that we won’t have any of that conspiracy crap again this year. As long as we don’t lose to either Wisconsin or Ohio State because of a bad call (or a series of bad calls) we should be able to chill out for the rest of the year.

Regarding the performance of the football team, I’m hoping Beck’s honeymoon as OC buys him some time to get his system in place and working before the boo birds start coming down. That said, we’ve all seen enough of an inept offense sending an otherwise BCS caliber (I’d argue the defense and special teams were BCS NCG caliber) team to the Holiday Bowl twice in a row.

I think it was because of his play the first few games of the 1997 season. That ASU game, wow, not good.

Quite frankly I’m tired of listening to how “we’re the greatest fans in college football” because we’ll cheer the opposing team after the game whether we win or lose or even had it taken to us by the opponent.

I booed in 2009 at the Iowa St. game because of the memorable horrific turnover display we had that day. I remember booing Zac Lee specifically. College football is king here and I have to tell you the game has evolved to something else, more and more closer to the NFL. You’re telling me since I paid $55 or whatever the cost of tickets are these days, I’m not entitled to boo after some bad plays after bad plays like what happened that day? I got sick of seeing Taylor Martinez crumble in the pocket against Oklahoma at the Big 12 title game last year. I wanted Cody Green to start the game and felt he should have come in. I booed. I am not a jerk booing all the time and I’m not a fan that likes to yell that was a terrible call!

Listen, Taylor Martinez and Zac Lee are young men, fortunate enough to be gifted with extreme athleticism and the privelage to play Division 1A college football at one of the most prestigious programs all time. I understand they’re just kids playing a game, I don’t hold a grudge on them past the product they put on the field for us, as long as they represent Nebraska properly off the field as an everyday citizen.

Sure, I’ll take some flack from some for my post. Boo me haha! As a paying fan, I feel I’m entitled to booing the players and coaches if I choose to do so. We’re all on the same page rooting for Nebraska. I’m just letting you know this isn’t 1962 anymore.

…I booed Steve Pederson loud and strong at halftime of the Colorado game in 2004.

I think history proved me correct.

and none of the booing was directed at either team. It was directed at the refs. There were a couple cheap calls early on, then given how the relationship with the refs had progressed earlier in the season, the crowd was quick to jump on their case. From then on, it was any call made in favor of Missou, regardless of how close it was, got a chorus of boos.

I have no problem with the crowd booing a bad call shown on a replay…besides its pretty difficult to differentiate between an “aahhwhww” from the crowd when the replay comes up, and an actual boo. The transition from one to the next is pretty quick. So I don’t really see how anyone can be so quick to judge someone who makes the leap from aahwhws to boo on a poor call.

Booing either team is a different ballgame and should be scorned as you suggest, but the refs are fair game when they screw up. The problem is that it turns into a sport as to who can boo the refs quickest on any call, which diminishes the impact of using it when it really needs it.

Alright, I feel I explained my stance on the situation methodically. I did not compare fans at a sporting event voicing their displeasure to co-workers booing each other, students texting during class, or running into a player on the street and telling them “you suck”

The Greatest Fans in all of college football. Take a moment and think about that. Now take a moment and think to yourself, if we hadn’t had 35 consecutive seasons ending with a bowl game. If Nebraska had more than 2 losing seasons since 1962, say 20 losing seasons. We’ve had that many since 1936. 18 of them came between 1938 and 1962. Imagine 20 from 1962 to today. Would Nebraska have the label as the greatest fans? I say no. We wouldn’t have the sellout streak. We’d have plenty of booing in frustration and anger in our history. But we’ve been spoiled with the winningest program to date since 1970.

Realistically, it is likely that a majority of Nebraska fans will say booing in Memorial Stadium is classless, insensitive, deemed unnecessary, and unwanted. My first post’s closing statement that it’s not 1962 anymore, meant that majority number is a shrinking number. It’s not for everyone, I get that. But I’m letting you know that it’s going to happen, and it’s here to stay. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, you just don’t like theirs.

I’m going to go by a hunch and figure that the boos in Michigan came about 2007.

Losing at home to Appalachian State and Oregon to start that season wouldn’t upset any level headed fan at all. Just the drunk fans being overly obnoxious would get upset and become excessively loud at the stadium. And unable to have beaten Ohio State since 2003 hasn’t ruffled any of the “good” Wolverine fans at all either. And let’s not mention the Bill Callahan like years you’ve just suffered with Rich Rodriguez.

So you’re telling me you’ve never griped about things going wrong on the field? I’m amazed. And I’m not buying it. All the fans that post on here about not booing at games aren’t always happy go lucky people just rooting for their boys to play their hardest and represent the school with pride. Losing to the Mountaineers of Appalachian State couldn’t have made the almighty Michigan Man too proud that day. Nor could the accumulative losing of the past few seasons. Happiness goes by the way of winning. Losing brings out the disgruntled in all of us.