Fwd: Re: Re: [Husker] Another One

[Bob Beach]

On 3/19/2005 at 2:48 PM Dick Karre <dkarre at comcast.net> wrote:

>>I can assure you this sort of thing (and worse) was at least as
>>prevalent
>>"back in the day," but it never got reported.





     One thing we need to do is define "this sort of thing."  I understand kids will be kids and have always been kids and always will be kids.  When I was in college (late 60's-early 70's) there were wild parties, chasing women, out till the wee hours of the morning, drinking (the legal drinking age was 19 at that time), and the like.  That is just college kids.  What I am talking about is doing things that come to involve police on the scene which result in charges being filed which have to be resolved in the court system (something more than disturbing the peace).  Prior to about fifteen years ago there had to be one of three reasons, or all three, we didn't hear about it.  The three reasons would be the players watched themselves better, the police looked the other way more than they do now (especially if it was a football player), or the media just flat didn't report it.  I would believe the first two more could be possible  than the last one.  The media never has been known to take a good story and suppress it.  


     I understand the thought about there are more news vehicles today such as the Internet, increased news and sports channels and the like.  But all that does is make news to travel farther and wider and faster and news coverage intensifies.  It means if something happens with an NU player it makes it more likely someone in say San Diego would get ahold of the item.  All these modern items of news media haven't changed the reporting of local news that much other than stations are more modern and have improved technology.  I have lived in Lincoln, Nebraska for 55 years.  For at least 40 of those years University of Nebraska Football has been the main story in the Lincoln Journal, the Lincoln Star,  and now the Lincoln Journal-Star as well as KOLN-KGIN-TV and now KLKN-TV and all the local radio stations.  If Bob Devaney sneezed in 1969 you knew it if you read those newspapers or could get those radio and TV stations.  Not only did you know he sneezed you knew which direction he was facing, how his face looked as he sneezed, and etc.  I would have to believe if a member of the NU football team had broken the law and been cited you would have heard it or read it somewhere in the a fore mentioned news vehicles.  There is a possibility it may not have been reported to the extent it is today but it would have been reported.  I know the Johnny Rodgers story was big time headlines and if I remember right that was somewhere in the late 60,s.   













         
Bob Beach
Man is never too old to learn.  Man only becomes too old when the process of learning stops.