[Husker] a friend sent me this...

[Marc Regenos]

Sorry it's a forward but....
Kudos to the guy that lives in Crete for responding!


  By TJ Simers - LA Times Sportswriter
  July 31, 2007

  I am writing this now to give the overland stage time to get it there.

  USC will be playing in Nebraska on Sept. 15, and I will be joining the
  greatest football team ever assembled as they strike out into the
  wilderness.

  If possible, I'd like to spend time boarding with some corn cobs,  
maybe
  getting a smell of what it's like to be around livestock - then  
leaving
  Lincoln to move around the state and spend a few days here and there.

  A stop in Wahoo at the Wigwam Cafe is probably a good start, but I was
  thinking it'd be interesting to stay with a real-live-boring  
Cornhuskers
  family somewhere out on the prairie so I can feel what it's like to  
have
  nothing to look forward to in my life other than a Saturday afternoon
  football game.

  I'll be going to Nebraska early in the football week, and while I'm  
not
  sure what corn cob hospitality is like, I'd like to remind folks that
  when they came to L.A., I tried to help.

  Remember when the Cornhuskers came to the big city to lose in the Rose
  Bowl? Everyone here knows there are no individual seats - just long
  benches for the skinny people who live here.

  I was looking out for the corn-fed porkers, of course, including all
  their big-butted women, when I told them that if everyone sat down  
after
  the anthem, there were going to be people falling atop each other  
at the
  end of each row.

  A number of corn cobs e-mailed to say they were unhappy with Page 2  
but
  thrilled now to have their very own Internet machines.

  They also wanted to tell me about their wonderful lives, kids and the
  modern facilities being built right down there by the creek. Well,
  there's nothing like a Wal-Mart coming to town to excite the  
locals, so
  I was thrilled for them. But for some reason that didn't come  
across in
  our correspondence, and there might still be some hard feelings.

  I got to thinking last summer, though, as I drove the
  family-that-I-used-to-love across Nebraska in a RV what it must be  
like
  to actually live there most every day of your life.

  I can't remember for sure if it was Nebraska or Kansas where I saw a
  tree, but it just seemed as if there wasn't much there.

  That's why the corn cobs love their football. It's all they have,
  everyone wearing red, and sitting there like plump, ripe tomatoes with
  corncobs stuck to their heads, singing, "There is no place like
  Nebraska."

  Hard to argue. There's not a 7-Eleven in the entire state,  
thousands of
  people never once tasting a Slurpee, which got me wondering whether I
  could live that way for a whole week.

  I know there aren't a whole lot of cities in Nebraska, but I'm willing
  to spend a few days out yonder with a family if someone would like to
  show me what it's like to live without DirecTV and not ask me to  
kill a
  chicken for dinner.

  I can play checkers if forced, though, or make a run to the Feed  
Store.
  Right now I'm willing to go wherever the corn cobs tell me to go, and
  while several have already done that, I'd like to see for myself  
they're
  not talking about some place in Nebraska.

Reply:
  Dear TJ of the LA Times...... I can understand your concerns about our
  lifestyle...In my hometown of Crete, Nebraska, located about 20 miles
  southwest of Lincoln, Our lifestyle is certainly "Un  
Californiaiish". Do
  you realize that:

  1. I live 1/4 mile from my Veterinary Clinic so my commute to work  
is all
  of 20 seconds.

  2. I live in a house with about 5000 sq. ft....own 7 acres, and can  
catch
  a 5 lb bass, right off of my deck.

  3. I live about 1/2 mile from "gangs" of Turkey, deer, Canadian Geese
  and bobcats and none of them are "armed".

  4. Your Pete Carrol coached guys have had a nice run of 58-6 these  
past 5
  years which is second only to my Huskers who went 60 and 3 from  
93-97 with
  3 National Championships.

  5. I can spell "Murder" but there hasn't been one in these parts  
for at
  least my 50 years.

  6. My house has a lock on its door.....but we have never had to use  
it.

  7. In Crete, People spend $100,000 on houses......not cars

  8. When I go to church, I care about the other 300 members because  
I have
  known most of them....most of my life.

  9. My kids can walk to school and walk around downtown and in shopping
  malls without a guarded escort.

  10.On a clear day, I can see the Capital 25 miles away......I'm not  
even
  sure what "Smog" is.

  11.......And last but not least......I am about 4 fairway woods from a
  golf course where it costs $9 to play.



  I would invite you to spend some time with me the week before the USC
  game, but our village already has an idiot and currently, we are not
  advertising for anyone else to take his place.......As Always in
  Huskerville...GFL