[Husker] Husker List

[Patrick Gaule]

On 10/13/2010 7:35 PM, Theodore Heise wrote:
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>> Mike...I don't know how long I have been on this
>> list....but I remember living in Western Colorado....not
>> able to see the games on TV or pick up a radio
>> broadcast.....You were typing every play as it happened and
>> we would read play by play..........Years later, a radio
>> station in Loveland or Longmont....I don't remember which
>> picked up the rights to broadcast the games.  I was
>> still too far away and over the mountains so I would drive
>> to the Eisenhower tunnel and listen to the game from
>> there......It was about 100 one way ......Now look what we
>> have.....Progress has really made things possible for us
>> Husker fans..
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> I looked back through my e-mail archives and have a similar story, 
> only I was debating between driving from West Lafayette, IN toward 
> Chicago in hopes of getting a radio signal versus staying put and 
> getting the textcast.  This was in 1997, and I opted to take the sure 
> thing (Mike's typing).
>
> Thanks, Mike!
>

I remember the textcasts too.  They were hosted on huskers.com back when 
it was an *unofficial* website that had no affilation to UNL.  For a 
long time, the official UNL page for husker football was 
huskerwebcast.com.  I don't remember what happened, but eventually the 
guy behind huskers.com gave up on the site and UNL purchased the 
domain.  Anybody remember that old site?  It had a chatroom (running on 
some terribly slow java applet).  I thought it was the coolest thing in 
the world to be able to interact "live" with other Husker fans.

Out of curiosity, I looked up the site on the web archive and found that 
most of the 1996 version of the site was archived.  You can even view 
the textcast page here - 
http://web.archive.org/web/19961106044700/www.huskers.com/football/play-by-play/  
...It even looks like some of the games were archived!