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.
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.
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