[Husker] Bowls & NU Ticket Sales Further Comment & Omaha Opinion

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Gary,
I feel the same way.  The hight of the frenzy was in 1995 or 1997.  There is 
passing interest.  The tickets to home games are so much easier to obtain. 
When I was 10 years old, NU one the first National Championship.  I was 
glued to the radio even when we were out raking leaves in Dundee.  I never 
missed a game.  One side note, I have only missed 4 home games in 24 seasons 
through this year.  I guess I still like them.  :)

Steven

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Fead" <gwfead at cox.net>
To: "Husker List" <husker at tssi.com>
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 11:32 PM
Subject: [Husker] Bowls & NU Ticket Sales Further Comment & Omaha Opinion


Greetings Again:

I would like to clarify something here. In my original note on this subject 
I stated that I would not expect NU (referring to the NU ticket office) to 
sell more than 4,000 tickets to a bowl in Orlando and perhaps as few as 
2,000-2,500 to any other bowl.

It is entirely possible that a large group of alumni would show up for a 
bowl in Houston or San Diego but they almost certainly will not purchase 
their tickets through the NU ticket office. Furthermore these aren't the 
people the local Chamber of Commerce are looking to attract. They want 
people who either fly/drive to the their location from Nebraska or some 
distance of over 750 miles and spend nights in hotels, eat in their 
restaurants and so on, something the locals don't tend to do.

As far as demand building up I don't think so. There was an article in the 
Omaha newspaper last week where several travel agency officials were 
interviewed and I believe the general opinion was there would be little if 
any interest and most were not going to offer any tours.

Another side note here, while at the Kansas State game the person sitting 
next to me (who lives in Lincoln) knowing that I live in Omaha asked me what 
the Omaha opinion of things in Lincoln was. I told him quite honestly that 
interest in Nebraska football these days is waning in Omaha, not to say 
there is some interest but not like it was 10-20 years ago. Omaha is a city 
that is rapidly growing with a lot of non-native residents now. A lot of 
people from the coasts have moved here and the Hispanic population is 
growing like mad and most of these people have little if any interest in 
Nebraska football. Basically the Nebraska population (or in this case 
Omaha's population) is becoming diluted.

I even see this in my own home, my wife is not from Nebraska (she's from 
Minnesota) and while she hopes things go well for Nebraska she doesn't take 
time to listen or watch games unless I'm listening (which is never because I 
don't listen to the NU radio broadcast myself) or watching. My 14 year old 
son only watches on TV if I'm home (which means it's an away game) and never 
listens on the radio. When I was 14 I listened to every game on the radio no 
matter what, or we'd have a radio blasting outside while us kids in the 
neighborhood were playing touch football.

Gary Fead
Omaha
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