Last year I happily served as trophy husband when Rachel was invited by a carrier to be their guest for a Nebraska football game. It was indiscribably cold and I accepted their gifts of warm Husker wear glad to utilize it to maintain feeling in most of my extremities during the pre-game tailgating.
We were asked to sit with the big wigs in the skybox and it was a great opportunity to view things from a unique perspective...the free food wasn't bad either. I didn't get the full effect of the 85,000 seat venue from behind the windows and hoped we could return on a warmer weekend and sit outside among the red masses. That opportunity came this week.
Conveniently the Huskers opponent this year was our beloved Iowa State Cyclones. Those who had invited us knew Rachel and I were both ISU grads and did not expect us to wear enemy colors. They welcomed us warmly assuming they were about to beat us down again. The Cyclones had not won in Lincoln since 1977.
A view of Memorial Stadium from our tailgating perch
The skyboxes...last year's seats
A view from this year's seats
Lots of people wearing red...a few Cyclone fans here and there
Game time!
Nebraska scores...balloons are released
That scoreboard says we win!
To quickly summarize the game Iowa State was without it's top two offensive players (our starting QB and RB). Our offense was miserable but our defense capitalized on eight Nebraska turnovers and we got to walk out of the stadium smiling after a 9-7 victory.
We hit the neighborhood with our buddy A.J. this evening Trick or Treating in Minnesota for the first time. The boys ran excitedly from house to house with an energy level that might indicate they had already consumed large amounts of sugar. They loved how heavy their sweet receptacles were getting and quickly mastered the spot-a-house-with-the-outdoor-lights-on-and-run-for-it system.
