Yesterday I had THE best day since I went to Worlds of Fun! It was football Saturday and I got to go to the game! I went with some old co-workers of mine and the original set of friends I made when I moved to KS. It was going to be fun whether or not we won.


All in all the day was great, Only got 3 hours of sleep the night before since my dinner ran late Friday, but I was up, packed the cooler and was out the door and too Lawrence by 9:15am in the morning! Jagerbombs started at 10am, whoa Nelly. We got lucky and one of the wives *I went with the "guys"* was our limo driver and so we never had to walk far, dropped us off at the game, for our row 4 seats! Yes folks, I was basically on the field. It was the best seats I have ever had at a game.



The Good.

The day was filled with laughing, cheering and talking with other fans/football alumni. Reconnecting long lost friendships, mostly due to life and not having "time" to get together. You know you have made good friends when you can get together after 2-4 years and it’s as if you all never have been separated. Some lives had changed married, divorced, pregnant wives. Nevertheless, we all were the same just with some tweaks of some kind. We partied all day, laughed all day, drank all day and I got home at around midnight. Maybe thinking today, I am too old to be start-taking shots at 10am, but **** it, I had the best time! You only live once, right?



The Bad

The bad of the day of course was our punk ass football team who never really showed up for the game. When I say punk ass, I mean it in the nicest of ways. Of course having such premo seats, means I got up close and personal to see how we looked. The offense started strong, but our defense never showed up.We had no excitement from our players. By the 3rd quarter, they were heaving their chests so heavy from being on the field too much. "Fire Callahan" was heard from KU fans and Huskers alike. Several of the KU fans said it wasn’t as much fun to beat us, due to our struggles. I thought that showed character on several KU fans parts. No one likes to see a flailing team who was once a power house struggle like we are, fan or not.



The Ugly

Since I was with KU fans, I fully expected a little razzing, which of course I got. I too am wondering, "Why our team didn’t show up". I didn’t expect, to walk to the bars in KU and be harassed by several KU fans. Not harassed as in I am overly sensitive don’t say shit about my team, I wear my colors proudly and will be a fan even if we were 0-10. Harassed as in, as we walked KU fans shouted obscenities, some would race off of the side walk and get in my face, some grabbed me, some threw things at other fans and I got asked to not walk on "their" sidewalk more times than I can count. My male friends I was with didn’t want to leave me alone ever for some fear I would be accosted. I wasn’t sure if I should really be scared or not. I was however, super disappointed that there are fans like that from any team or sport.

There is a reason Husker fans are known as "gracious fans", win or lose we never degrade our opponent and wish them a good game. I think the fact that KU's memorial stadium had a record setting attendance NOW that they win says a lot about their fans, we have always had a sell out, win or lose. Fair weather fans are very far and few between for our Huskers. Sad that it took those other 20k fans an 8-0 season to decide to show up for their team, don’t you think?

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