[personal] [Husker] Detroit Red Wings & Husker Football

[kelly collins]

I moved from Nebraska to California 12 years ago.  I used to make a  
concerted effort to find a watch-site for the games that were  
televised, or dial them up on the radio for the non-televised  
games.    Since the whole boondoggle with the coaching change (not a  
Solich supporter, by the way, just not happy with how everything was  
handled), I've had much less interest in following the Huskers.  I  
just don't recognize any of the names and/or faces anymore, so I  
don't feel the "connection" to Nebraska like I did when I could flip  
on the TV and see a familiar face.  Win or lose, I enjoyed watching  
those games because I felt like Nebraska football was different from  
the other big programs.  I don't feel any particular animosity toward  
Coach Callahan, but he wasn't part of NU football that I remember.  I  
know things change, but there are probably a lot of people like me  
who moved away and enjoyed the comfort of NU football that just isn't  
there anymore.  That's not to say that things shouldn't ever change,  
or that I wouldn't have drifted away eventually, but this particular  
change and the result has made it possible for me to do a lot of  
remodeling and landscaping on Saturdays.

I still follow the list during football season, but I had to  
seriously consider whether I would update my address when I recently  
closed out an old email address.

Just my $0.02.  I still hope for NU to play well and win, but I don't  
feel really connected to it anymore.

Kelly

On Oct 7, 2007, at 6:34 PM, Sue Smith wrote:

> Skylar, head down to Memorial Stadium on Saturday morning.  It will  
> be a buyer's market.
>
> Gary, I hear you.  I took my 8 year old boy to the Iowa State game;  
> it was his first Husker game.  I was disgusted by the black shirts  
> play and he was bored by the 4+ hour game.  The Huskers on the  
> field today are not the Huskers I grew up with. I don't think a lot  
> of 8 year olds in Nebraska will grow up being Husker fans with this  
> kind of football.
>
> Perhaps Skylar's kids will be, but that may be it.
>
> Skylar Dodds <sklarbodds at cox.net> wrote: > I did not attend the  
> Ball State game, because quite honestly I was
>> tired from all of the hype of the USC game and I was not at all  
>> anxious
>> to sit through another four plus hour football game. Now after last
>> night's events I'm not even sure I'm going to show up for the  
>> Oklahoma
>> State game. This is not a good sign.
>
> Gary, I have a lot of respect for you.  Maybe more than most on  
> this list.
>
> That being said, I'll take your season tickets.  Email me back if  
> you need
> to get rid of them, there are still plenty of Husker fans on this  
> list that
> even going 0-12, there's no place I'd rather be than Memorial  
> Stadium on a
> Saturday.
>
> I understand the point of your post.  That if you do something  
> else, you
> might enjoy it more than what you did before.  If you feel that  
> fickle about
> the Huskers, I'm sorry.
>
> --
> Skylar
> mailto: sklarbodds at cox.net
>
>
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