[Husker] Does Dan Fouts ever get tired of being an idiot?

[Theodore Heise]

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Tony Lambert wrote:

> Ted, was the game better in person than on the tube? And do you 
> have any input.

Well, I didn't see both, so it's hard to compare.  :)

Seriously, it was one of the best games I've been to.  The weather 
was pretty good--really warm when the sun was out, which was much of 
the first half.  The second half clouded up and cooled off a bit, 
but it was still very comfortable in a sweatshirt.

We've not been to too many games, but have made it to the last three 
bowl games.  Dallas was not that great a destination, but this (so 
far) ranks up there with San Antonio.  This game was probably about 
as exciting as that Alamo Bowl too.  :)  Bo is 2 for 2 in Nebraska 
bowl games.

I looked at tickets through the NU site, but didn't want to sit in 
the corner--so I splurged on better seats.  We were on the 45 yard 
line, about 13 rows back from the field.  It was a great spot, but 
an older fellow we talked to on the shuttle into the game comes to 
lots of games here and said there isn't a bad seat.  It really felt 
like the stadium was nicely drawn in to the field.

Our tickets were on the Nebraska side, but there were quite a few 
Clemson fans in our section.  They were *loud* before the game, and 
for the first half, but they got awfully quiet in the second half. 
It looked like Clemson folks outnumbered us slightly, but they sure 
cleared out quickly at the end!  All we talked to and were around 
were very civil and pleasant.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, the replays in the stadium were 
*terrible*.  On many of the replays, critical parts of the play were 
off the bottom of the big screens.  In retrospect, I think it was 
the aspect ratio not matched up on these very wide screens, and the 
bottom portions of the picture were simply cut off.  For example, on 
many of the pass replays the camera would follow the ball in the air 
and the receiver/defender would not be visible until the ball was 
there.

On the play that was reviewed for Ganz fumble, none of the replays 
showed his knees or the contact with the ground.  That was a long 
wait, by the way.  When the announcer said, "After review, the 
player was down..." he was completely drowned out by cheering as 
soon as the word "down" came out.

Pelini thanked the team for their spirit in his comments after the 
awards, and then also thanked the Nebraska fans--calling them the 
best in college football.

All in all, a great experience and a great win.

-- 
Theodore (Ted) Heise     <theo at heise.nu>     Bloomington, IN, USA