1987 Sugar Bowl

[HBK4life]

Tyreese Knox, Danny Noonan, The Sandman, Neil Smith. Big hip pads. Keith Jackson on the call. GBR!! The 80's rocked!!

53rd Annual
Sugar Bowl
January 1, 1987​

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#6 Nebraska 30 (Final: 10-2, #5)
#5 LSU 15 (Final: 9-3, #10)​

 

[HBK4life]

Back when a 10-2 season, a #6 ranking and a New Years Day bowl game beatdown of a top 5 team was considered a bad year. Fire Osborne!!

 

[huskerfan66]

Tyreese Knox, Danny Noonan, The Sandman, Neil Smith. Big hip pads. Keith Jackson on the call. GBR!! The 80's rocked!!

53rd Annual​

Sugar Bowl​

January 1, 1987​

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#6 Nebraska 30 (Final: 10-2, #5)​

#5 LSU 15 (Final: 9-3, #10)​

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That was football

 

[scarletred]

LSU has never beaten us in football 5-0-1.
Four of the five in Major New Years6 bowls.

 

[HBK4life]

You know you're getting old when Neil and Danny's boys are on the current NU roster.

 

[scarletred]

You know you're getting old when Neil and Danny's boys are on the current NU roster.

Isn’t that the honest to God’s truth..

 

[cardinals38]

Tyreese Knox, Danny Noonan, The Sandman, Neil Smith. Big hip pads. Keith Jackson on the call. GBR!! The 80's rocked!!

53rd Annual​

Sugar Bowl​

January 1, 1987​

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#6 Nebraska 30 (Final: 10-2, #5)​

#5 LSU 15 (Final: 9-3, #10)​

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Oh the memories 😁

 

[wondrboy]

perimeter blocking 😍

 

[HBK4life]

perimeter blocking 😍

 

[brnred]

My wife and I went to that game.

 

[HuskerAlum92]

We went on a bowl losing streak after winning that one.

 

[redwine65]

I remember them basicly handing off to dubious in one of them sugar bowls

 

[Mrs.Jeans15]

My first Nebraska fan gear was from that game. T-shirt.

 

[Mrs.Jeans15]

We went on a bowl losing streak after winning that one.

We played the top 5 teams every year in the bowl game..sometimes on their home turf.

 

[9and4]

I covered that game for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.

And a sidebar.

With notes.

 

[Redblood23]

Still pissed that Tyrese Knox for fumbling in the fiesta bowl against Florida State. 😒