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CONTEST: Where Were You in 1962?
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In honor of Nebraska's 300th-consecutive sellout, easily an NCAA record, we're asking the experienced Husker fans among to remember: Where were you in 1962, when the sellout streak began?
Were you cheering on the Huskers in the knothole section? Listening to the games in between farm chores? Waking up on Sunday morning to read the paper cover to cover? Taking your own sons and daughters to the game?
And if you weren't born during or before 1962...that's OK, too! Give us a memory from your parents, grandparents, or someone else who remembers the time.
And if you can't find that...just give us your favorite memory from any of the 300 sellouts you might have attended.
We want to hear from you, Husker fans. And we've got a great prize as an incentive.
Simply place a comment in the comment field of this blog by Friday afternoon and you're entered to win a chance at the Devaney Era DVD from the The Cornhusker Collection. Relive all of Devaney's greatest moments as a Husker coach. At the end of the week, we'll randomly select a winner from the comment field to receive this $30.00 DVD for FREE!
Have at it, Husker fans!
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Were you cheering on the Huskers in the knothole section? Listening to the games in between farm chores? Waking up on Sunday morning to read the paper cover to cover? Taking your own sons and daughters to the game?
And if you weren't born during or before 1962...that's OK, too! Give us a memory from your parents, grandparents, or someone else who remembers the time.
And if you can't find that...just give us your favorite memory from any of the 300 sellouts you might have attended.
We want to hear from you, Husker fans. And we've got a great prize as an incentive.
Simply place a comment in the comment field of this blog by Friday afternoon and you're entered to win a chance at the Devaney Era DVD from the The Cornhusker Collection. Relive all of Devaney's greatest moments as a Husker coach. At the end of the week, we'll randomly select a winner from the comment field to receive this $30.00 DVD for FREE!
Have at it, Husker fans!
Want to comment but not a member...join here for free!
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I was 7 years old living in the sandhills. I remember listening every weekend in the fall for the huskers and most people began listening again as the team kept winning. That excitement is back now 300 home games later.
– Sep 21, 2009
I was nine years old. I had a Channel Master 12 Transistor Radio that my Grandma has given me the previous Christmas. My "Internet" connection back then. A neighbor of ours that was in the Army had been sent to some place called "Viet Nam". I was still trying to figure out what a "Bay of Pigs" was and I really wasn't clear why the Russians didn't like us. Camelot was still alive and I had no clue that in little over one year it would all come crashing down in Dallas.
Game day Saturdays were a ritual. Chores, Lunch and a walk while listening to the Husker Broadcast. I would walk all during the game. Sometimes to a creek close to the house but mostly just around town. That particular day it was a perfect fall day. It is the day you always store away to prompt memories years later. Football weather. I remember the walk, the game and the beginning of the broadcast, "Folks, we have a sellout". 300 Sellouts ago. Amazing, incredible, astounding and a record no team or fan can claim. Thank you everyone who still is able to reach Tom O. Field at Memorial Stadium on game days, Awesome.......I am so proud to be a Nebraska native and a Cornhusker fan.
– Sep 21, 2009
In 1962 we installed radios on our tractors so we would not miss a husker broadcast. The Devany era was in its infancy but there was magic in the air and you did not want to miss one moment of it.
Our Winside High School football team would go to a game and set in the knott hole section in the endzone. Just being there you could fill the electricity in the air. Big Red was making a name for its self Nationally. I am glad that I was part of that great era.
Gene H Langenberg
– Sep 21, 2009
Every Husker Game was heard on the radio that was turned as loud as possible so everyone could do their chores on the farm. I remember we all stopped as the winning phrase "Man, Woman and Child" started from 1010 KRVN out of Lexington. It didn't take long for me to understand they didn't always win, but if you were a betting man, you didn't bet against the Big Red.
– Sep 21, 2009
I was 2 years old and living in Alma. My parents and grandparents would huddle around the radio and listen to the games (or at least I am told). I am sure they read all about it in the Sunday World Herald as well.
– Sep 21, 2009
every saturday us kids and dad had to go to my grandparents farm to help with farmwork when it waa tine for the game we would take the old pickup to the top of the hill and listen on the radio to us it was the best part of the day and every saturday same hill same station same cheering fans
– Sep 21, 2009
I wasn't yet born, but my mother talks fondly about listening to Husker games while working at Woznick Machine(John Deere) in Bridgeport, Ne back then. Personally, I witnessed the heartbreaking loss to Michigan in the '86 Fiesta Bowl, but also saw the '96 Fiesta Bowl massacre of Florida only to miss Tommy's super run for a TD because I used the stadium bathroom!
– Sep 21, 2009
I was sitting in the stands, an excited senior at the U who was still trying to figure out what kind of magic this Devaney guy was working. After three dismal years watching the Huskers as a student it was truly amazing to see the Huskers at 6-0 going into the game with Mizzou. Saw all of the home games and even went to Norman to see the OU game, so I saw both of our losses that year. I will be at the 300th sellout, still pulling for my beloved Huskers.
– Sep 21, 2009
Playing touch football in the street, 37th Ave. in Omaha. Able to listen because most houses had windows open and game on.
I'm sure because we were alwys playing touch football in the street, so I don't have to remember exact date.
– Sep 21, 2009
19 year old, listening to the radio and then reading every bit of the OWH report on the game. I remember setting in my car to listen to the Gotham Bowl broadcast because I couldn't get it on my house radio. It lasted late into the night, if I remember correctly.
– Sep 21, 2009