I'm leaving for Lincoln
hope to meet CW tomorrow
It was great meeting you at Kincaider's, Fearless! After almost two decades of exchanging witty, pithy, always-germane comments with you on the message board, it was good to finally see your face.
I'm glad we (
esposita and I) didn't have firm plans to meet at your tailgate before the game, as I messed up getting into Lincoln and missed everything before OU's first TD to tie the game. I knew from the roars that arose from Memorial Stadium that good things were happening for the Huskers early on.
So, I'll post here for public consumption what I told you at Kinkaider's. That was the best football road trip I have ever been on. The Nebraska fans are the best I have ever encountered, and I don't just mean non-OU fans. Friendly, courteous, conversational, and well-informed. Great folks with which to interact. That's what I remember about Nebraska fans from my time at OU (1972-1977). It's good to see that nothing has changed in that regard.
I didn't know until after we got back to the visitor's inn at Offutt AFB, but the two teams joined in prayer after the game was over. That too is consistent with how things were in the 1970s. Both teams giving 100+% on the field, in games that nearly every year determined the conference championship and at least half the time had national championship implications, and then hugging and shaking hands afterward. And meeting in reunions of the great teams of the past.
Cheers to the Cornhuskers and their fans. May their tribe increase. May they get the right leadership in place to return to the upper echelons of college football and stay there for as long as there is college football in America.
