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[Scott Lawson]

Great post, Patrick...I just "read" the ASU game from '96, now I am too angry to sleep! lol

Scott in NY

--- On Wed, 10/13/10, Patrick Gaule <pgaule at cox.net> wrote:

From: Patrick Gaule <pgaule at cox.net>
Subject: Re: [Husker] Husker List
To: husker at tssi.com
Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 11:26 PM

On 10/13/2010 7:35 PM, Theodore Heise wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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..
> 
> 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!

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