[Husker] a friend sent me this...

[Mike Jaixen]

While responding to Mr. Simers can have a brief
cathartic effect on the writer, the net result is that
it will only give Simers more reason to write
September columns on this same topic.  The only way
guys like Simers and Woody Paige stop writing this is
when they find out that nobody cares what they say.

--- Marc Regenos <reggie at kearney.net> wrote:

> 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
> 
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Mike Jaixen
Blog: http://huskermike.blogspot.com


       
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