How great is it to see Joe Ganz, Marlon Lucky, and Phillip Dillard lead the team on the field with excitement, meaningfullness, and enthusiasm that has not been seen in Lincoln in almost 5 years?
ONLY in Nebraska is it possible to come off a 5-7 season and sell out your spring game with 80,000+ (second highest attendance ever for a college football spring game). Remarkable when you consider National Championship contender Missouri had over 26,000 fans which was 3 times their previous highest turnout (ever). The presence of our former players who once made our football program the juggernaut we were was reassuring. My new man crush is redshirt freshman WR Curenski Gilleylen who not only was clocked at 10.2 seconds in the 100 meter dash in high school but caught a 77 yard TD Saturday from Ganz. Finally, our first homerun threat since Matt Davison.
Besides 80,000 fans chanting "Go Big Red" for a scrimmage in the middle of April, gotta love the new Tunnel Walk. If anyone sees any reminescence from the Callahan era there let me know.
Awesome.
As Pelini, his assistants, and now DXP proclaims, we are done talking about the past four years. It's over. I did, however, have the privilege of walking over to the Runza tent, the Valentino's tent, the Amigo's tent, and finally the Fairbury Hotdog tent. We talked about how many Pro Bowls Mike Rozier has in his future and then they called us a cab.
The highlight of the day was not running into our old friend Grant Wistrom, who bought us beers, was looking hardly 220 lbs., and reads DXP (so he says), but trying to convince everyone that Timmy Rose's number on the back of his senior picture is legit...
The attendance for the game was 80,149. That number is greatly misleading as A. Rose and I never made it past the Champions Club, which brings the number down to 80,147.
Besides being sacked three times and going 4 for 9, Joe Ganz did have two touchdowns and threw for 131 yards and coincidently, hit Gillylen while we were doing a photo shoot....
Sitting in the trunk of a Red Cadillac with a license plate that reads 'PowrRed' is fun, but I bet Adi Kunilac had a better time kicking 7 touchbacks...
A. Rose is holding the keys in his left pocket...
Some youtube videos here...
Paige, Karen, and Summer - the photo we warned you about...
And the obligatory drunk college girls who hopped the fence...
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