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[Pitkin, Gregg]

I am 43 and currently live in Texas between Dallas and fort Worth.  I
lived in Wayne Ne for a couple of years when I was young.  My Dad moved
us to Massachusetts when I was in second grade, and I can remember I was
not happy.  
My first remembrances of the Big Red was my Dad watching bowl games.  He
would get into the games quite a bit and my Mom would vacate the room if
things started to go south.  I've definitely inherited that trait as my
born and bred Massachusetts wife will go shopping if the Huskers aren't
doing well.
My family would go back to the small town my Dad grew up in every summer
to visit.  2 adults, 4 kids in a 65 Chevy station wagon pulling a 8x8
foot homemade trailer.  No safety belts, us crawling all over the place.
Today, I've got video screens and the Xbox rigged up to keep my kids
quiet on the ride up north.  I've only got 2 kids and 12 hours to get to
Callaway.  I can't imagine how my parents drove 36 hours from Mass to NE
and back each year with 4 kids wining in the back seat.
After a few years in Mass, dad bough a small farm in Callaway and we
would spend the summer working 20 acres of corn, raising 50 chickens,
and maybe a hog.  By the time we left we had a lay down freezer full of
fresh beef, pork, chicken and corn that we dragged back East.  Those
summers on the farm were the most memorable of my life, and cemented my
love for anything Nebraska or Husker related.
It was tough growing up a Husker fan in Mass.  No one had any respect
whatsoever for anything Nebraska out there.  The only games we got to
see on TV were bowl games and maybe 1 other game when we played Oklahoma
or Colorado.  I'd scour the Sunday paper looking for news, but all I'd
find was a small paragraph on Saturday's game.  I came to heavily rely
on my Husker's Illustrated subscription.  
I had Rozier, Frazier, and Redwine posters on my walls and a Nebraska
belt buckle I wore all through high school.  My friends thought I was
nuts.  There were a lot of Notre Dame fans there, guess that's why I've
never been able stand them.  
We moved to Texas 15 years ago and its been heaven!  I get to watch
almost every game on TV, I've met quite a few Husker fans, and there is
not the distain for Ne here like in Mass.  I work w/ an OU fan who has
the same healthy respect for us as I've had for the Sooners, as well as
a common dislike of the longhorns.  Another benefit for living here, I
got to take the family to our first game at Baylor last year and made
the Cotton bowl this year.

Many thanks to Mike.  I can't remember when I started on the list, its
been so long, but it was back before he was typing the play by play.

gregg