[Husker] If this doesn't get your blood boiling...

[Jon Johnston]

Thanks for... well... liking it, mostly. I always wonder how it will be received, especially since I've made it a goal to include at least one outsider's point of view a year. 

I'm surprised you found it in MN, though. 

Thank you! 

Jon Johnston
Corn Nation

On Jul 27, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Tom Risor wrote:

> Jon is right on the mark here.
> 
> As he is in a GREAT publication I amazingly found at a Walgreens in suburban
> St Paul MN.  The Maple Street Press Cornhusker Kickoff 2010.  I literally
> did a triple take walking past the magazine rack and seeing the word
> Cornhusker sticking out behind a couple fantasy football magazines.  I
> pulled it out of the rack thinking it was like a Street & Smith's college FB
> mag that had been sent to the wrong market (you know how they change the
> cover to fit the local market but all the guts are the same.) But, it's not.
> It's a REAL Husker magazine. Other than an official press guide this is the
> BEST Husker magazine I've ever seen.  In some ways, it's better than the
> press guide because it's not 'just the facts'.
> 
> I encourage everybody to buy it.  Not because Jon is a list member but
> because it's worth the money and will make a great companion to our last
> season in the Big 12.
> 
> Tom R
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of
> Jon Johnston
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 8:32 AM
> To: David Strong
> Cc: Husker List
> Subject: Re: [Husker] If this doesn't get your blood boiling...
> 
> I could give a damn about his behavior after the Big 12 title game. Not
> every one is Tom Osborne, and expecting them to be is just a way of setting
> them up for failure sooner or later because they'll never maintain some high
> standard over the course of their lifetimes. 
> 
> But  we love this, don't we? We love being some guy sitting on his ass
> somewhere, waiting for someone else to show some perceived weakness so we
> can judge them as not being worthy. 
> 
> It's pervasive. It's not just college football coaches. It's high school
> administrators, city councilmen, anyone in government, celebrities, you name
> it. 
> 
> It's like candy, this need for others to fail publicly. Sad. 
> 
> Jon Johnston
> 
> On Jul 27, 2010, at 7:11 AM, David Strong wrote:
> 
>> Duh...I am dum.  Here is the link:
>> 
>> http://omaha.com/article/20091205/BIGRED/712069849/-1/bigred
>> 
>> --- On Tue, 7/27/10, David Strong <gbrlist at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> From: David Strong <gbrlist at yahoo.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [Husker] If this doesn't get your blood boiling...
>>> To: "Dick Karre" <dkarre at comcast.net>, husker at tssi.com, "Mike Jaixen" 
>>> <mikejaixen at yahoo.com>
>>> Date: Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 7:51 AM Here is a link about the end of 
>>> the game.  Also shows the video of the post game news conference.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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