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When you go to a particular school or grow up around college football, you are more than just a fan. It's who you are. We thought we could leverage this pride in your roots and show that "where you come from" is more than just a statement about geography. By positioning NCAA Football 11 as a game that understands this pride and is authentic to these traditions, the takeaway should be that anything that is in college football is in NCAA Football 11.

And this doesn't just include game play (though that's a huge part of it). It's rivals and mascots; it's legends and stories. It's those things that are at the very fabric of the game itself. Of course the game is great this year as well. With authentic entrances, mascots and specific offenses for each team, the term "where I come from" takes on a much larger meaning. While playing NCAA Football 11 is ultimately a great sports sim, it should also give you a sense of the pride and emotion one has for being a fan of a team they will never not be a part of.

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How much faith do you put in the last game of the 2009 season? How much better can the offense be in 2010? How many games will Nebraska win, and where will we end up? 

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Most memorable Nebraska football moments......  You realize this is an article that could go on forever, right? It could go on to the point that somebody could make a DVD and sell it. Oh, wait, someone already did. In fact, I included at least one play from it below. 

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A couple of years ago I did an article for "Home Game" Magazine in which I picked the Top 25 Huskers of the past 25 years. Tommie Frazier is at the top of that list, but I wonder - how many of you would pick Tommie Frazier as your favorite All-Time Husker? All Frazier did was win but is he a favorite or is he just the best player in the past 25 years?

It's a pretty safe bet that most of our favorite players are also the same guys that made the biggest impact on the best teams - Tommie Frazier, Eric Crouch, Mike Rozier, Turner Gill, or Ndamukong Suh, to name a few. It's also a safe bet that many of those guys also made an impact on us as fans. Perhaps it was the impact of a favorite player that solidified your standing as a Husker fan, much in the same way that Suh will make us want to watch more of the Detroit Lions this coming fall. 

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This is the latest entry in SB Nation's preseason series on our history and traditions. However, this is one that doesn't exactly fit Nebraska football as well as some of the other topics. At a lot of places, tailgating is an essential part of the tradition of game days...and while pre- and post-game activities are definitely part of the atmosphere on Husker game days, those activities don't always take place in a parking lot.

Many football stadiums sit away from the business district, surrounded by parking lots. Sometimes they were built on the edge of town.  Not so much at Nebraska, where the stadium was build in the mid-20's near downtown Lincoln, then expanded about 50 years later to be nearly double the size, and the stadium is part of the campus. Remember, the Computer Science department has offices in the south side of Memorial Stadium!

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Husker Mike:

My favorite Nebraska football team is the 1994 squad. Although the 1995 squad is widely considered one of the best ever, I think the 1994 team could have been better if only for the injury bug. It started when Mike Minter tore his left ACL against Texas Tech, but then went epidemic at the quarterback position. Tommie Frazier only played nine plays against Pacific before leaving with a calf bruise that later was diagnosed to be a blood clot behind his knee.  Frazier ended up spending three days in the hospital, and would miss the rest of the regular season. Brook Berringer took over as the starting quarterback against Wyoming, and led the Huskers on a second half comeback after suffering a partially collapsed lung. The injury, which apparently happened late in the first half on a five yard touchdown run, resulted in Berringer spending the night in the hospital as well. But the rash of quarterback injuries led to Nebraska slipping out of the top spot in both the AP and coaches polls.

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Husker Mike: 

To put it simply, I was born that way. My parents have held season tickets since before I was born, and Saturdays in the fall revolved around the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Home game Saturdays began with a mad rush for them to get ready to head to the game and await the sitter.  Away game afternoons were spent sitting in the kitchen listening to the game on KFAB. Eventually, I realized that I could listen to the home games on the radio as well, much to the chagrin of my little sister and the sitter. I didn't get to go to many games, though every so often, somebody couldn't go and I'd get a shot. I don't remember much about my first game, other being in awe of the mass of humanity and asking my mother whether she heard me yell "Go Big Red!" on the radio (since it was her ticket I used!) My dad was impressed because I knew the entire offensive line; those were the days when jerseys didn't have names on the back.

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July. July never changes. It's been the same for a long time now. I used to watch the ‘97 Missouri game (FLEA KICKER!), but the VHS has long since worn out. Now, I just sit around staring at the wall, waiting for August, waiting for the smell in the air. It still smells like two-a-days in August, that time at which you did full practices in pads in 100-plus degree western Nebraska heat and your coaches thought that drinking water made you some kind of weiner boy. 

Okay, I lied. A lot has changed. They started thinking that drinking water is a good thing - so much that they invented pure water in plastic bottles. I started a Nebraska football yearbook - it hits shelves in Nebraska in mid-July. Somewhere along the line, they invented game consoles. I got a Xbox 360 last Christmas. I couldn't believe it - my wife actually bought me one. I nearly fell over dead when I opened it. Since then, it's been Fallout 3 and COD, even though I'm not really that good at COD. My kids say it's because I'm old - my reaction time being that of a sloth. Truth is - anyone who's known me for a while could tell you I was never that fast. Where were we? 

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