Fw: [Husker] Cut

[Roger Lohr]

After reading and enjoying the posts on this thread, I feel the need to 
supplement my initial response (below).

First, I want to add my thanks to Mike Nolan for creating and maintaining 
this List.  Whereas I don't recall just when I joined the List, it was many 
years ago.  I do recall the play-by-play posts that Mike made for us.  I 
prefer having the information come to me rather than seeking it out as well. 
I send informative e-mail messages to the MN4NE members.

I was born and raised in Lincoln.  I was a freshman at UofN in '60.  As a 
kid, I attended many games with a knothole ticket and sat in the south end 
zone bleachers.  It may have been the OU game in '57 when I was seated in 
those bleachers and two kids came up and sat next to me.  We were talking 
for awhile when one of the kid's dad came over and motioned for the three of 
us to come down.  He handed each of us a ticket for a seat in the west 
stadium.  The seats were on the 50 yard line!  I thought I was in 
heaven...until I realized that we were surrounded by Okies.  Nebraska played 
a good first half and were tied with OU at the half as I recall.  I even won 
a 50 cent bet with a loud OU fan.

He was the loudest of all the OU fans near us.  I bet him 50 cents that the 
Sooners wouldn't score anymore in the first half.  He immediately took me up 
on that bet.  What he didn't realize, was there was only 15 seconds 
remaining in the half.  He hadn't figured out how to read the old, round 
scoreboard lock in the north end zone.  That quieted him for a bit.  OU beat 
us pretty bad in the end.  But, I left happy as a lark...recovered the cost 
of my knothole ticket and had a seat on the 50 yd. line.

In '59 I was in downtown Lincoln and wondering if I should go over to the 
stadium for the OU game.  Since it was chilly, cloudy and misting a bit, I 
decided that I would take the bus home rather than sit in the rain and watch 
us get beat again by OU.  Oh, how I regretted that decision!

I got my first season ticket in '62.  It is a long story which I won't go 
into here, but what appeared to be a nasty deed by my friend and co-season 
ticket holder, turned out to be one of the best things that ever happened to 
me.  As a result of his nasty deed, in '63 I was able to obtain a single 
seat in section 105 (40 yd. line east balcony).  I retained that seat until 
'82 when I was able to get 2 seats together in Sec 104, row 1.  I have those 
seats today.  In the process, I became friends with the 'ticket-lady' who 
helped me out in '63.  Marge and her husband both worked at the university 
and retired in '82.  We have continued our friendship since '63.

I too took 6 years to get a BofS EE degree in '66.  I moved to Minnesota 
where I have lived since.  Sue, my wife, and I both retired in 2000.  This 
year we traveled to the most road games ever...USC, ISU, aTm, and the Cotton 
Bowl.  We did miss two home games this year however.

Thank you to whomever started this thread.  It certainly has been enjoyable 
to read the many posts and learn a bit about many of you.  Mike, I hope we 
are able to get together next Fall during the season for a Husker Lister's 
thing.

Roger Lohr-Mpls




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Lohr" <suerog2 at worldnet.att.net>
To: "Jim Dean" <JLDean at mac.com>; "Huskerlist" <    >
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Husker] Cut


> I'm 64 and can't remember a damn thing!
>
> Roger Lohr-Mpls
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Dean" <JLDean at mac.com>
> To: "Huskerlist" <husker at tssi.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 10:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [Husker] Cut
>
>
>> I'm 60 and can remember more than that ... Theater tickets ... New 
>> clothes
>> ... And more that I am sure I never knew about.
>>
>>
>> Jim Dean
>> Wood River High School, 1964
>> UNL, 1964-66, 1968-71
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Those of us who have been around long enough (Mr. Stone and I  qualify;
>>> not so sure about Mr. Beach) remember when college athletes got 
>>> "laundry
>>> money" - twenty-five dollars a month or so. Today that would  probably
>>> equate to a couple hundred.
>>
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