[Husker] Thoughts on Today

[Nick Chevance]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Steve Stone <sstone at pvtnetworks.net> wrote:
>> Bob Beach wrote:
>>  It was beyond me how people were jacked for this
>> like a game.  A real game and the Spring Game are two completely different
> >things.
> >

>  But for many thousands of fans who don't have season tickets, it's their
> only chance to see the Huskers at home.
>
>  Steve Stone

Not that it seems to matter much, but I agree with Steve; it is an
opportunity for many.  The last spring game I went to was the first
year of Callahan  and I wanted to see just what our team looked like
actually throwing the ball.  Not that Lord couldn't throw the ball, it
was just he didn't do it very well.  And I splurged and spent $8 a
ticket, instead of the standard $5, to get into the new tower, land of
the armchair seats, and inside seating, and buffet line, and real
bathrooms, and all that.  However, I chose the red seats outside on
the balconey, which were fine for about a quarter and a half before
the weather turned, got cold and windy and rainy.  But for that half,
it was living with the Big Boys.  Not having to make sure my butt was
on my number, sharing elbows with everyone else, or looking for places
to put my feet on the way to the end of the row.

Yeah, I knew it was a practice.  I knew that no one was going to blow
up the QB on a blitz.  I knew that time in the second half was going
to run continuously (even though I wasn't there by that time).  I knew
it wasn't a game, and it wasn't the same as Ohio State, Nichols State,
or Eastwest Northsouth Academy for the Barely Educatable.  But damn,
it was football, live and not on my TV, and featuring my favorite
team.  I shared that with about 50,000 or so other nuts we call fans.
And it was great.

I haven't gone in recent years because of weather and a lot of other
things happening on weekends in the spring (two kids in high school
swallow up a lot of weekend time).  But I almost went this year, just
to see and feel what it was like.  It was football.  It was the
Huskers.  It was going to be nice out.  But tickets sold out so fast,
my procrastination got the better of me.  Maybe next year.  I'm sorry
that Bob doesn't get it, but that's OK.  He'd rather go to a baseball
game than a scrimmage.  That's OK.  Baseball sort of bores me, and
that's OK too.  We're all fans, and Bob doesn't have to get it.  As
long as a lot of us do, its Husker football.  And that's what matters.

Nick
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"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an
infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even
considering if there is a man on base."
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