NU asks fox to pull this promo....

[ThrowBones92]

I can literally look out my office window in SW Lincoln and see a cornfield. I’m sure you could say the same for nearly all Midwest cities. I don’t mind the promo. It is kind of an overplayed, unimaginative narrative, but nothing to get to bent out of shape about. The fact that individuals outside the midwest are too naive, narrow minded and myopic to see that cities in the Midwest have more to offer than cornfields, and that the people that live here have as much depth as those anywhere else, is more of a reflection of their own shortcomings than it is a denigration on those of us who live here. A 30 second football promo isn’t going to change that perception one way or the other, just like it isn’t going to change Tuco’s perception of Chicago. We might as well have a little fun with it.

The point is that Nebraska is a lot more than just cornfields. Yeah, It's a part of what makes the state what it is. Yeah, there is the word "corn" in the name of the University's team. And of course people who know the place understand it is more than what is portrayed in commericials like this, but why

The commercial itself will not single-handedly change the perception, You're correct. But it will serve to reinforce it. When people who have never been to a place only have what they see in the media and other places to form their opinion and idea of a place, why would you not want to help them see it for what it is rather than continue to play into the cheesy, dumb joke that people take the entire state of Nebraska for. I live in Chicago now, is the fact that people who don't know Chicago yet think it is run by gangs a product of their own shortcomings? I hear all the time people comment about how dangerous the entire city Chicago is, yet none of them actually have a clue what they're talking about. Should I just say, "hey, it's your own shortcomings that keep you sheltered"? Or should I try to inform them about all of the really awesome things Chicago has to offer?

 

[Tuco Salamanca]

That's not my true perception of Chicago. But promos like this do nothing but prey on the stereotypes of states and cities. When I go to Lincoln I don't spend anytime in cornfields. Just like when I go to Tennessee I don't spend time hanging out in a cabin with a hound dog and a .22 or when I go to West Virginia I don't sit around and burn furniture or when I go to Arkansas I don't date my sister.

 

[CheeseRunza]

The point is that Nebraska is a lot more than just cornfields. Yeah, It's a part of what makes the state what it is. Yeah, there is the word "corn" in the name of the University's team. And of course people who know the place understand it is more than what is portrayed in commericials like this, but why

The commercial itself will not single-handedly change the perception, You're correct. But it will serve to reinforce it. When people who have never been to a place only have what they see in the media and other places to form their opinion and idea of a place, why would you not want to help them see it for what it is rather than continue to play into the cheesy, dumb joke that people take the entire state of Nebraska for. I live in Chicago now, is the fact that people who don't know Chicago yet think it is run by gangs a product of their own shortcomings? I hear all the time people comment about how dangerous the entire city Chicago is, yet none of them actually have a clue what they're talking about. Should I just say, "hey, it's your own shortcomings that keep you sheltered"? Or should I try to inform them about all of the really awesome things Chicago has to offer?

I agree with all that. I just don’t think we need to be embarrassed of who we are. When I talk to, or have heard of people who think all we have are cornfields and tee-pees etc., I don’t feel sorry for myself, I honestly think to myself “how stupid and sheltered are these people who believe this stuff”.

 

[CheeseRunza]

That's not my true perception of Chicago. But promos like this do nothing but prey on the stereotypes of states and cities. When I go to Lincoln I don't spend anytime in cornfields. Just like when I go to Tennessee I don't spend time hanging out in a cabin with a hound dog and a .22 or when I go to West Virginia I don't sit around and burn furniture or when I go to Arkansas I don't date my sister.

Sorry, I meant to take that part out. I was going to write that it would have made a pretty funny promo to to see a model 18 ford pull up to the stadium with a bunch of pin-stripped clad mobsters climbing out with their tommy guns ready to take the field.

 

[Toms Wife]

why would you not want to help them see it for what it is rather than continue to play into the cheesy, dumb joke that people take the entire state of Nebraska for. I live in Chicago now, is the fact that people who don't know Chicago yet think it is run by gangs a product of their own shortcomings? I hear all the time people comment about how dangerous the entire city Chicago is, yet none of them actually have a clue what they're talking about. Should I just say, "hey, it's your own shortcomings that keep you sheltered"? Or should I try to inform them about all of the really awesome things Chicago has to offer?

Are you really comparing the shortcomings of murders and mob influence to cornfields? It is not the same thing. Plus, I don't see cornfields as a cheesy dumb joke.

 

[rchrisreade]

This thread is entirely confusing because the posters with whom I generally agree I find myself disagreeing and the reverse. The Fox's ads play on team names and mascots. Purdue's promo contains a train because the University chose a train as its logo. “Wolverine” is the depiction for the University of Michigan.” “Flag” is the depiction for University of Maryland” and their plaid and tweed helmets. Michigan State's ad is about the Spartan Army. How can we as Cornhuskers be offended that they did a depiction of people in a corn field? If we are truly so anti-corn, then it is time to change the team mascot.

 

[suhnami]

Inaccurate? Are you upset that they didn't show some soybeans and wheat? When a football team represents a state whose primary industry is ag, why wouldn't you latch on to that image? It's one more example of the pc culture trying to spin reality into whatever fake image they want to portray.

You act like combines drive down stadium drive daily. Gtfo. The campus is modern and within blocks of downtown.

 

[suhnami]

That's not my true perception of Chicago. But promos like this do nothing but prey on the stereotypes of states and cities. When I go to Lincoln I don't spend anytime in cornfields. Just like when I go to Tennessee I don't spend time hanging out in a cabin with a hound dog and a .22 or when I go to West Virginia I don't sit around and burn furniture or when I go to Arkansas I don't date my sister.

Just a quickie with the sister then?

 

[BigRedPimp]

This thread is entirely confusing because the posters with whom I generally agree I find myself disagreeing and the reverse. The Fox's ads play on team names and mascots. Purdue's promo contains a train because the University chose a train as its logo. “Wolverine” is the depiction for the University of Michigan.” “Flag” is the depiction for University of Maryland” and their plaid and tweed helmets. Michigan State's ad is about the Spartan Army. How can we as Cornhuskers be offended that they did a depiction of people in a corn field? If we are truly so anti-corn, then it is time to change the team mascot.

Bugeaters comeback!

 

[Tuco Salamanca]

Just a quickie with the sister then?

Just your sister

 

[huskerfan1414]

What everyones missing is that it just plain sucked. Corn or no corn.
And this is a little off topic....but why dont we promote our beef industry more in nebraska? Everyone who is normal loves beef. Beef is delicious. Beef is manly. Beef is America.
And Nebraska is the beef state...but people think of shitty tasteless texas longhorns. No.
I got nothin against the corn deal...but WHERES THE BEEF??

 

[suhnami]

Just your sister

 

[jehresm]

This would be similar to an Alabama Football promo, centered around a trailer park, with gravy-stained, cankled women fighting over the barbecued turkey leg.

 

[Harry Caray]

I didn't say you shouldn't, what I did say is if you're one of those folks who doesn't have a problem with it, then don't be one of them who acts surprised when people/recruits/non-Midwesterners think Nebraska is "just cornfields" or rip on Nebraska for having nothing but corn. Low creativity stuff like this is the reason the stereotype persists as reality in people's minds.

Perhaps people think that way because our mascot is literally the CORNhuskers? If the administration cares that much about stereotypes, we better change our official nickname to the Nebraska City Slickers and get rid of the farmer mascot.

Places like Alabama and Oklahoma have reputations as being full of rednecks, yet they're recruiting just fine. OU still drives an old covered wagon on to the field before every game.

 

[rpappy3]

I don't mind it.At least we are not de-nutting a steer.

 

[anon_umk0ifu6vj6zi]

That's not my true perception of Chicago. But promos like this do nothing but prey on the stereotypes of states and cities. When I go to Lincoln I don't spend anytime in cornfields. Just like when I go to Tennessee I don't spend time hanging out in a cabin with a hound dog and a .22 or when I go to West Virginia I don't sit around and burn furniture or when I go to Arkansas I don't date my sister.

When DO you date your sister if not in Arkansas?

 

[Tuco Salamanca]

When DO you date your sister if not in Arkansas?

Nope

 

[Bugeater]

I think maybe a better narrative would have been to show legends of Nebraska football coming out of the corn, like Field of Dreams. Make it look like they're talking to the current players, and then, as they're fading back into the field, they ask the current players before they disappear, "are you good enough to follow us?"