Dear Abby....Cornhusker style!

[jigs]

Mike, did you write in the last line???




CORNHUSKER FANS HAVE THEIR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT ON GAME DAY

DEAR ABBY: When I first read the letter from "Wounded Bride" (Jan. 6), whose father left immediately after her wedding ceremony to watch a football game on television, I thought, "What an insensitive, inconsiderate boor!" However, when I saw the signature, "Wounded Bride in Nebraska," I laughed.

I was born and raised in Nebraska. The percentage of the population in Nebraska who are not obsessed with football is definitely in the minority. It has reached the point where weddings, birthday celebrations, anniversaries -- even women's C-sections -- are planned around the Cornhuskers' schedule.

This may seem ridiculous and juvenile, but it's the reality if you choose to live in Nebraska. What her father did was wrong, yet he probably was never taught anything different. I'd cut the guy some slack. -- REFORMED CORNHUSKER FAN, NOW IN MASSACHUSETTS

DEAR REFORMED: I told "Wounded Bride" (in essence) that her father might have been trying to send her a message about his feelings about her marriage, but she should try to forgive him and concentrate on building a successful life with her spouse. Of course, when I penned my answer, I had no idea how pervasive football fanaticism has become. Read on:

DEAR ABBY: Although I feel her pain, I had to chuckle. We just moved back to Colorado from Nebraska, and believe me when I say that "Husker" is the state religion.

Some close friends recently planned the marriage of their son around the Cornhuskers' football schedule, and another friend was late to his own wedding because he was watching "the game."


"Wounded Bride's" father is just a typical Husker fan. -- BRENDA IN AURORA, COLO.

DEAR ABBY: It was the bride's own fault for scheduling her wedding during a game-day Saturday. Having grown up in Nebraska, I can tell you there are Catholic priests and Protestant ministers who refuse to perform weddings on game day. Repairmen refuse to come until the game is over. My wife is a nurse, and when she worked in the hospitals there, she knew of doctors who put off patients until the game was over. Nothing in Nebraska is more important -- at least in their minds. It's actually one of the reasons we moved away. -- FORMER NEBRASKAN IN TEXAS

DEAR ABBY: My in-laws' anniversary was in the fall, and we had to plan their 60th on a weekend other than game day or many guests would not have come. Heck, my father-in-law might not have come! They played the Nebraska fight song at his funeral, and everyone cried. -- HUSKER FAN, ROCKLIN, CALIF.

DEAR READERS: In fairness, it isn't just Nebraska football fans. Read on:

DEAR ABBY: The only day we could have our wedding was the day of the Pitt-Penn State game -- a big deal here in western Pennsylvania. At our reception, those guests who weren't in the bar glued to the TV had headphones plugged into their ears, either cheering or groaning at inappropriate times. -- MARTHA IN CHICORA, PA.

DEAR ABBY: Brides-to-be in Oklahoma who schedule their weddings on an Oklahoma University Sooner game-day Saturday can expect low attendance. It may not be right, but it's true. -- SOONER FAN IN OKLAHOMA CITY

DEAR ABBY: In Texas, we schedule funerals so as not to interfere with our college football games. That bride knew her father's habits. She should have had the wedding on a different date. -- ANOTHER FATHER'S OPINION

DEAR ABBY: "Wounded Bride" should take comfort in the fact that what goes around comes around. Nebraska lost! -- AUBURN WAR EAGLE

[Sandhusker]

Hey, that's the way it is here. There's only 11 or so games a year - they're only 3 hours. That's a mere 33 hours of Husker football a year, all that other stuff can wait.

If you don't like it, move to a state with no college football like Kansas or Alabama!

[Mike]

[jigs]

I think Prince is crazy scheduling like he is, but I hope there is a method to his madness.


Hope Auburn is looking past us, we don't have the storied tradition like NU to scare off opponents!!!

[Brad S]

Yeah, dog on Kansas football because 06 in Lincoln the mighty Huskers were able to hold homefield with an overtime win that didn't come close to the beatdown the mighty suffered at the hands of the nonexistant at the nonexistant's homefield in 05.

[Sandhusker]

[Brad S]

Right right, before you do bring up the last 40 years, go back and edit your post to past tense.

[jigs]

give up Brad. scoreboard is nothing....tradition and history is how NU is defined. we won 4 of 5 in the late 90's, and all we heard was those were the worst 4 teams in the illustrious history of Husker football....


that is why my two favorite teams are KSU and who ever is playing NU....

[Brad S]

Nobody admires 40 years of 80k sellouts more than me (with generally exemplary conduct on/off the field), but you can't lose or almost lose to a team and call them nonexistant (without seriously condemning yourself).

[Brad S]

Hey Jigs, purples played a pretty good game the other night. Nothing easy in Bram is a good start - wish Woolly would have gotten that kind of crowd. Woolly had this team about where it is now, last year, and they returned everybody + the JCs. I liked Altman and Woolly both - hope Huggs can win a couple in the tourney.

[katrina]

Mike, jigs we'll see if you two are still in your love fest after this fall.... Someone will be sending the other chocolates I'm sure.....

[Sandhusker]