As I watched the end of the game this afternoon, something dawned on me. Very few kids under the age of 21 cares if the Huskers loose or not. As I looked about my living room I noticed no one else was watching the game with me. My teenage son and his friends had left long ago before the game was settled. They went hunting while I tossed and turned over another loss. My son stopped me with about two minutes left and said who's winning. I said we were tied and it looked like overtime. He said oh well and walked out to clean his gun. This sums it up for me in those short interactions we had. Husker football means nothing to him.
When I was a teenager like him in the late 70's early 80's I would listen to the games with my father as we harvested and hang on every word Lyle or Kent would say. I lived and breathed the Huskers as did my brothers and all my friends. When we won, which was often, we would get the football and play catch dreaming someday we might get to wear the Husker uniform and when we lost we almost shed a tear. We kept the dream of Husker football alive and breathing.
Now today this generation knows nothing of the Husker victories I talk about nor do they care. They have no interest in how the old home team is playing. They have better things to do. I can see as they grow up and have kids of their own they will find better things to do then watch the Huskers play. So will their children's children. Saturdays will be filled with other favorite teams to watch or activities. They will care less.
The more years this team floundres the less any young person will care. And thus the end of the life blood of the Huskers. Their fans. Hope I am wrong. Doubt it.
When I was a teenager like him in the late 70's early 80's I would listen to the games with my father as we harvested and hang on every word Lyle or Kent would say. I lived and breathed the Huskers as did my brothers and all my friends. When we won, which was often, we would get the football and play catch dreaming someday we might get to wear the Husker uniform and when we lost we almost shed a tear. We kept the dream of Husker football alive and breathing.
Now today this generation knows nothing of the Husker victories I talk about nor do they care. They have no interest in how the old home team is playing. They have better things to do. I can see as they grow up and have kids of their own they will find better things to do then watch the Huskers play. So will their children's children. Saturdays will be filled with other favorite teams to watch or activities. They will care less.
The more years this team floundres the less any young person will care. And thus the end of the life blood of the Huskers. Their fans. Hope I am wrong. Doubt it.
