[Husker] Mizzou Pregame Stunt

[Nick Chevance]

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Agris Taurins <taurins at scifipenguin.com> wrote:
> That "stadium employee" was me.  I typically work sideline security and got
> pulled into this.  To be honest, I wasn't sure who had the "right of way"
> when I got called over but I had no ability to move the Missouri players,
> coaches & staff out of the way even if I had wanted to.  There was quite a
> shouting match going on between someone from our athletic department in
> charge of the visiting recruits and someone who claimed to be head of MU's
> head of football operations.  I decided to move "our" folks out of the way
> just to prevent anyone from getting hurt.  I actually only moved folks into
> the bench area instead of all the way to the 50.  MU wasn't going to be able
> to make use of that area in any event because of the pre-existing bench
> equipment.
>
> As I was trying to move folks back, I was blind-sided by a MU player doing a
> drill.  Although several NU folks started yelling "cheap shot" and "he
> targeted him on purpose!!" I don't believe that.  It wasn't a hard hit and
> when I got up and looked back, they were doing a drill where the LBs where
> running backwards.  I'm sure he just didn't know I was there and just ran
> into me.
>
> But Dan's report here is pretty much spot on as far as what was going on.

Careful, Agris, that you don't get a suspension notice from the Big
XII conference for blind-siding that Missouri player.  He was clearly
a defenseless player, and you impeded his progress.

Good thing you didn't have a helmet on.

Nick
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