[Husker] ESPN's Herbstreit is a clown shoe

[Scott Stewart]

I read Herbie's picks last night and had the same thought. It was obvious
Herb has a problem with NU.

I couldn't quite figure it out, and then it dawned on me. This all goes back
to the night Trev Alberts beat the tar out of him at that bar in downtown
Bristol. You know the one. Half way though beating Herbstreit down, Trev re
injured that nagging shoulder problem. That really made him made, so he went
out to his car and got a pair of overalls and a red wig and made Kirk wear
them. Unfortunately, the only wig he had was the one from the "Wendy's"
convention, complete with pigtails. He then put a sign around the moaning
Kirk that said "Here Lies Herbie. A Husker lover at heart."

Unfortunately, when word got back to the corporate office, they made Trev
resign. However, "Herbie" has never lived it down and still bears the
emotional scars.

Scott

On 8/28/07, Duane Feldman <dlfeldman at ameritech.net> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Bob Beach baseballguy at neb.rr.com
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>
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>      I didn't see the show. How did he embarrass himself? I have watched
> Herbstreit a lot over the years and don't always agree with him. However,
> I
> can't say he has said or done anything I would call embarrassing that I
> have
> seen.
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> Describing it does not do the scene justice -- there are several version
> available on YouTube.  Perhaps another reader can provide the
> address.  Moreover, the show was an "instant feedback" ranking of teams in a
> playoff format to determine the best teams of all time.  Herbstreit liked
> one of the Miami (2001?) and one of the USC squads (2004?) as the best of
> all time, but the ESPN voters had NU '95 vs NU '71 as the best two, with NU
> '95 beating '71 by 4-1 margin.  Herbie went ballistic (one of the keywords
> in the YouTube search is "tantrum;" it isn't just my opinion).  Normally
> pretty controlled in his arguments, he refused to listen to any of the other
> arguments (even Mark May offered a nominal argument for NU if you can
> believe it).
>
> What was really lost in the argument that ensued was that Sagarin's
> rankings has NU '95 as #1 and NU '71 as #2 all-time so the results are not a
> stretch.  The '71 squad was the only team in history to beat the final #2,
> #3 and #4 teams in the country (OU, CU and 'Bama), while the '95 team beat
> four top ten teams by an average score of 48-16 and no team came within 2
> TD's of NU that year.  Both of Herbie's picks had close games (although
> there are reasons to validate his choices).
>
> Among Herbstreit's comments was that only people from Nebraska must have
> computers, and many other "reasons" why the vote was not valid.
>
> Any help on the YouTube clip from other readers?
>
> Duane Feldman
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