[Husker] a friend sent me this...

Sat Aug 18 00:48:30 CDT 2007

I  have been all over the world..as a television producer now bank 
manager....don't ask...but
we've all heard this diatribe before...small town hicks...no 
electricity..blah blah blah..
I hate LA....it is a cesspool of guano....OK...NU 27   USC 17... 
Scoreboard...

Steven J
Class of 83

>From: Mike Jaixen <mikejaixen at yahoo.com>
>To: Marc Regenos <reggie at kearney.net>, husker at tssi.com
>Subject: Re: [Husker] a friend sent me this...
>Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:49:21 -0700 (PDT)
>
>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
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