[Husker] Cut

[Larry Fish]

Age 63. UNL class of 1967. I was a freshman in Bob Devaney's first 
year, 1962, at Nebraska. In that year, I remember getting a season 
ticket on the 45-yard line a little more than half way up the east 
stadium because demand was not very strong. There were many empty 
seats above me for the first couple games. 55-0 wins over the likes 
of South Dakota soon created strong interest. Starting the following 
year, and each year thereafter, I was relegated to the end zone 
locations by lottery.

I started subscribing to this list about the time Mike was typing the 
play-by-play of the games. There has been no radio station within 
reception distance of eastern Idaho that carried the Huskers games, 
so that play-by-play was very much appreciated.

I had the unfortunate timing of living in Norman, OK, in the mid 70s 
when OU had the Selmon brothers and Joe Washington with the wishbone.

Steve, I grew up north of Benkelman, so I know Imperial very well.

Larry Fish

At 3:40 PM -0600 1/9/07,  Steve Schmadeke wrote:
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>Me, too.  Age 43, Class of '85.  I was conceived about the time 
>Devaney opened his first fall camp in Lincoln.  The Huskers have 
>never failed to sellout in my lifetime and the only losing season was 
>2004.
>
>My first visual memory of the Huskers is Tagge stretching for the 
>winning TD over the Tigers (a memory that was further reinforced by 
>my parents picking up a place mat with the photograph), though I 
>remember listening to the Wake Forest game on the radio earlier that 
>season as I "helped" my dad with remodeling our new house in
>Imperial.  I was still young enough that when the announcer on the 
>Oklahoma broadcast talked about the battle of the Big Reds and that 
>the "loser would be blue", I thought that meant that the losing team 
>would have to change uniform colors.
>