The girl I’m currently dating finally saw how I react around husker football on Saturday. She only lasted the first quarter before she went into the other room. She told me afterwards that she’s fine with me not watching the game around her again 🤣.
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I’m in denial..
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Same with my wife. She won't be around me really when I am watching the games, and honestly I don't even say a word or get worked up anymore during Husker games. I literally had no reactions to anything that happened on Saturday against CU. Normally in years past I would, but what is the point of getting worked up after this many years of the BS shooting ourselves in the foot to losses.
I have to say that moving to Montana in 2001 coincides with the Husker program sinking like a rock. Not that where I live actually has anything to do with it, but the timelines coincide. And also, I have noticed that ANY time I am watching a Huskers game, and my wife is in the living room sitting next to me (usually she comes around in 4th qtrs - not purposefully, just because that is how it seems to work out), that our Huskers totally shit the bed. It is like clockwork - she sits next to me and bad shit happens on the field for us. Again, there is no reasonable/realistic way or reason that that her being in the same room has anything to do with it, but time and time again her being in the living room when I am watching means bad shit is going to happen and we are going to lose. Can't remember a time this wasn't the case, LOL.
Now if I told her she was a jinx, I'd really be in the doghouse lol. The ironic part is her adult daughter (who lives with us) has become a Cowboy's fan. Her daughter knows nothing about football, but is truly ridiculous in her screaming and antics when Dallas is playing. Yet my wife says nothing about her daughters ridiculousness, which is at least 10 times worse constantly than my worst ever reactions to things happening if the Huskers are playing. A double standard the width of the Pacific going on here. Women love to find reasons to put their man in the doghouse.
Tell her it would be like watching Taylor Swift fall on stage over and over again and then have terrible voice cracks when you expected to have the time of your life. Every. Single. Concert.
I didn’t start religiously watching husker football and memorizing all the players till the 2000 season when I was 12. Half my family are Oklahoma fans and the other half is Nebraska. I knew Eric Crouch growing up so that was the deciding factor on why I picked Nebraska over Oklahoma.
I cared more about baseball (that’s the sport I played throughout my entire life till an injury ruined my senior year) so that’s all I cared about in the 90s.
Never seen a national championship (let alone a conference championship) as a fan of Nebraska. Not sure if I’ll ever see a national title in my life. I still get jacked and pumped for the games, never sit, pace around the room yelling and screaming most of the game.
I really hope Rhule is the answer as I’m not sure how much longer I can care this much anymore.
There's nothing wrong with having passion for Husker football. I still have it, always will, but I now keep the antics down to almost nothing. It's been a few years since I was going ballistic over things happening on the field during the game.
But then I have been watching Husker games by myself now for a long time. 20+ years now. So being alone (mostly) during the games and not having other Nebraskan's to watch games with, where many of them would be up in arms over bad shit happening, has had an effect on my reactions also. Not saying I don't get worked up - I still do - I just don't do much open/visible/audible stuff anymore these last few years. After a certain point of losing so much, so often and in the same dumb-assed ways in 4th qtrs, it almost makes it ironically funny how we lose games. Not fun, but funny in a way.
Michigan 2021 broke me. Since then I just can’t bother to get truly worked up or upset over what’s happening. They either want to fix it or they don’t and I get the feeling that nobody actually wants to play the real game we have to play in order to succeed. This team should be way overspending to bring in linemen (HS and poaching from somewhere else) on both sides of the ball and a QB.
I hoped it would be different with a new staff but being outbid for Rouse after he already committed here was laughable. Now Baker goes to Texas and we’ve heard rumblings we’re not willing to spend on him. Just makes no sense to me.
Notre Dame paid over a million for Sam Hartman and they’re now a national title contender. Alabama was willing to pay that for Drake Maye. Oklahoma has Dillon Gabriel. Washington has Michael Penix, etc etc. yet for some reason we are trying to “fix” Jeff Sims and his backup is a tight end from Kearney.
I’d take 2 QBs in the portal - a highly productive guy that is low turnover and high completion from a lower level (Dylan Hopkins from New Mexico or someone similar) as well as a bigger “shot” on a highly rated backup from a big time school like Gunner Stockton or Brock Vandagriff. Then you have to seriously SPEND on a big time HS QB like Tennessee did with Nico last year.
As for the problem at LT- this is harder to address via the portal and I’m not going to pretend to know linemen across the nation well enough to do it but they need to go look at guys from FCS, G5 or other schools that earned all conference ratings (preferably multiple years) with eligibility who want to move up. You HAVE to try to address it, I’m talking 2-3 guys per off-season plus a high rated HS kid, until it is resolved
Also- in a time when there are elite WRs everywhere, we somehow can’t get any on our campus? Tell me how that works?
I hoped it would be different with a new staff but being outbid for Rouse after he already committed here was laughable. Now Baker goes to Texas and we’ve heard rumblings we’re not willing to spend on him. Just makes no sense to me.
Notre Dame paid over a million for Sam Hartman and they’re now a national title contender. Alabama was willing to pay that for Drake Maye. Oklahoma has Dillon Gabriel. Washington has Michael Penix, etc etc. yet for some reason we are trying to “fix” Jeff Sims and his backup is a tight end from Kearney.
I’d take 2 QBs in the portal - a highly productive guy that is low turnover and high completion from a lower level (Dylan Hopkins from New Mexico or someone similar) as well as a bigger “shot” on a highly rated backup from a big time school like Gunner Stockton or Brock Vandagriff. Then you have to seriously SPEND on a big time HS QB like Tennessee did with Nico last year.
As for the problem at LT- this is harder to address via the portal and I’m not going to pretend to know linemen across the nation well enough to do it but they need to go look at guys from FCS, G5 or other schools that earned all conference ratings (preferably multiple years) with eligibility who want to move up. You HAVE to try to address it, I’m talking 2-3 guys per off-season plus a high rated HS kid, until it is resolved
Also- in a time when there are elite WRs everywhere, we somehow can’t get any on our campus? Tell me how that works?
The WR thing to me is just completely mind boggling
There are so many good WRs in the portal every single year. Hell Colorado has like 5 that all came from somewhere else. Third and 17 Sims hits Bullock in the hands for a first down and he drops it. You think Jimmy Horn is doing that?
There are so many good WRs in the portal every single year. Hell Colorado has like 5 that all came from somewhere else. Third and 17 Sims hits Bullock in the hands for a first down and he drops it. You think Jimmy Horn is doing that?
I didn't even drink last saturday. I often will start having some beers if things start going poorly. But nothing Saturday.
I'm at the point, and have been at this point, where I literally have mind-wiped myself of most of the bad shit and losses that have happened the last 6+ years. Like when sometimes I see our record against a B1G opponent is 0 and whatever, or 1 and 7, I am like shit, I don't even remember most of those bad losses at all anymore. I think it is a protective feature - maybe kind of like what an abuse survivor does - wipe the memory banks of most of it hoping it will help the longstanding pain.
Probably a poor example/correlation. But, maybe also not that far from accurate, either.