Favorite Husker Memories
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Johnny the Jet Rodgers punt returns against Oklahoma and Alabama in the 1972 Orange bowl.
Definitely the 1994 Championship - So many close calls and disappointments in the decades before
When Cory Schlesinger broke free for the winning touchdown against Miami, I nearly broke into tears.
I know we lost, but the 93 title game. We were 17 pt dogs, everyone thought they would kick the shit out of us, and we beat em up. They won, but everyone knew we had kicked their asses all night.
That’s hard to pick so many great ones, still have to go with 1971 Oklahoma Nebraska game of the century
While I can't remember a game where the Huskers gained more respect in a loss than that one, it was still way too too much of a gut punch to ever call it a favorite memory, even decades later. The officiating........#@$%&
Best overall - the 3 '90s national championship games - all equally sweet.
Best non-national championship moment - '78 win over OU - first time I was old enough to witness a win over the hated Sooners
Best in-person game memory - 200th sell out butt kicking of the hated Buffs in '94 who all thought they were going to win that one, first time ever seeing the tunnel walk, high fived Brook Berringer on the field after the gam.
Best non-national championship moment - '78 win over OU - first time I was old enough to witness a win over the hated Sooners
Best in-person game memory - 200th sell out butt kicking of the hated Buffs in '94 who all thought they were going to win that one, first time ever seeing the tunnel walk, high fived Brook Berringer on the field after the gam.
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2009 game vs Oklahoma.
My Husker journey started October 27, 2001 when I decided to sit down and watch the #3 Huskers play #2 Oklahoma with my dad. I thought that's what Husker football was, kicking the shit out of your rivals and being a top ranked team.
Everybody knows how the next 7 years went.
Went to the 2009 game in Lincoln with my Dad, as a resident of Oklahoma. Game was boring as hell, but the Huskers looked dominant in person. Finally beat Oklahoma again.
My Husker journey started October 27, 2001 when I decided to sit down and watch the #3 Huskers play #2 Oklahoma with my dad. I thought that's what Husker football was, kicking the shit out of your rivals and being a top ranked team.
Everybody knows how the next 7 years went.
Went to the 2009 game in Lincoln with my Dad, as a resident of Oklahoma. Game was boring as hell, but the Huskers looked dominant in person. Finally beat Oklahoma again.
08 Colorado game, 09 season was fun being in college on campus , biggest gut punch was being at the title game.
My dad brought me to the '71 OB vs. LSU.
Hearing that both teams ahead of us in the polls lost earlier in the day so the OB was our opportunity to claim #1.
LSU fans yelling at us, "Go back to your farms!" and the same fans giving us a standing O when it was announced Nebraska farmers had sent many trucks of hay to Louisiana after Louisiana had suffererd a disaster.
Partying in the OB long after the game ended. I swear we were the last small handful of people picked up by a bus that night. We seriously thought we were SOL.
Hearing that both teams ahead of us in the polls lost earlier in the day so the OB was our opportunity to claim #1.
LSU fans yelling at us, "Go back to your farms!" and the same fans giving us a standing O when it was announced Nebraska farmers had sent many trucks of hay to Louisiana after Louisiana had suffererd a disaster.
Partying in the OB long after the game ended. I swear we were the last small handful of people picked up by a bus that night. We seriously thought we were SOL.
Being in the stands in Norman when the Johnny Rodgers ran the punt back. Games in Manhattan when I was in school in the seventies. My high school friends included several who went to K-State so there were always a big group of us partying pretty hard in Aggieville. All the Colorado games. My Colorado cousins, friends, tailgating before the game with everyone, some interesting battles in the games all made for a very fun time. This year's game was no different. The two games the Huskers beat the Huskies in Seattle. Friends came from Nebraska, my Husky brother, tailgating with Husky friends. It was all fun. The one loss I saw there was not so much fun. I actually got sucker punched at halftime standing near the concessions in a group of really good friends and my brother who are all Huskies. The knucklehead was so tough he ran into the crowd to get away from us. Then after the game my brother's youngest son who must have been 6 at the time kept grinning at me while saying over and over again "Uncle, your team lost". You can't really tell a little kid to F Off. Finally, I have to include the 1995 Championship game I watched with fellow Seattle friends and fans in a bar in Seattle's Pioneer Square (that used to be fun, but now you probably have a greater chance of getting killed by a homeless or doped up person than you do having any fun). It was the night I met my wife for the first time.
going to the rally in duncan to see cory schlesinger and get his autograph after beating miami as a little kid. i used to keep every newspaper article about the huskers and had him sign the omaha world herald front page with the pic of him tumbling into the endzone. i never got to go to games as a kid so it was the first time i actually got to see any of the huskers in person.
Was at the 2001 game and it's one of my favorite memories. Pandemonium when the catch happened. Old-timers probably hadn't jumped that high and yelled that loud in years. So loud my head hurt. Watching the play unfold was pure excitement.
I was at that game as well. The Stuntz family are family friends. He's a Dr in Omaha now. The stadium was rocking
Lasted probably less than a minute but I've never heard a stadium that loud. I've also never hugged and high fived so many random people in the span of a minute. Lol.
Tacking on to the 2001 talk, I was in the back of the end done watching Eric Crouch go 95 yards vs Mizzou and instantly thought-“ this is how he wins the Heisman. “
It would have been so great if we had beaten FSU in the 1994 Orange Bowl and swept all of the big Florida schools! So many lousy calls in that game!
My favorite memory is the 1995 Orange Bowl against Miami. I remember it so well. All the talk that Osborne couldn’t win the big one. The disappointment from the Orange Bowl loss the year prior and the team motto Unfinished Business.
The whole game wondering if this would be the year we would pull it off. Wearing down Miami in the 4th Quarter. The two great Schlesinger runs for TDs. Frank Costa getting sacked. Costa heaving a last gasp pass ending in an interception. Warren Sapp and all his trash talk laying like a stuck pig on the field. 72nd and Dodge street afterwards even though it was freaking cold! Glad to be young and alive to witness…AT LAST!
The whole game wondering if this would be the year we would pull it off. Wearing down Miami in the 4th Quarter. The two great Schlesinger runs for TDs. Frank Costa getting sacked. Costa heaving a last gasp pass ending in an interception. Warren Sapp and all his trash talk laying like a stuck pig on the field. 72nd and Dodge street afterwards even though it was freaking cold! Glad to be young and alive to witness…AT LAST!
Hell yeah! I was serving in the Navy. We were ported in Rota, Spain. I got up in the middle of the night to watch my Huskers. I went to my office on the ship and watched the game through a 13" color TV (which was a sweet setup for most anyone deployed on a ship). I gave up sleep to watch the game at 2 in the morning. The game ended shortly before 6am.
Everyone knew I was a Nebraska fan. We had lost, but I went to the mess deck to have breakfast with my chest out. I had fans of Florida State, Florida and Miami that all gave Nebraska props. They said we should have won and said that we were going to dominate going forward. And they respected me. Man, i was tired that day, but happy as shiz!
My dad subscribed the Big Red package of the OWH for me while I was deployed. I loved reading about the Huskers. Saved a lot of those newspapers. I wish my father was here so I can tell him how much they meant to me.
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Non-game related, randomly meeting Brook Berringer at Gateway Mall sometime between the end of the 95 season and when he passed away.
Game-related on TV, my honest first memory of knowing what was going on in college football was my family watching the 1993 Boston-College at Notre Dame game which opened the door for Nebraska to potentially play for the national title. Then the 18-16 Orange Bowl loss to Florida State is where I was fully invested and had awareness from then on out.
Game-related in person... I don't go to a lot of games, but my dad and I were sitting in the south end zone for the 2000 Missouri game. Bobby Newcombe's school record punt return came right toward us. I remember seeing him field it as deep as he did and saying "What are you doing?!" and then 15 seconds later he was on our end of the field scoring a touchdown.
Game-related on TV, my honest first memory of knowing what was going on in college football was my family watching the 1993 Boston-College at Notre Dame game which opened the door for Nebraska to potentially play for the national title. Then the 18-16 Orange Bowl loss to Florida State is where I was fully invested and had awareness from then on out.
Game-related in person... I don't go to a lot of games, but my dad and I were sitting in the south end zone for the 2000 Missouri game. Bobby Newcombe's school record punt return came right toward us. I remember seeing him field it as deep as he did and saying "What are you doing?!" and then 15 seconds later he was on our end of the field scoring a touchdown.
