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Dakich in trouble again
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And we lost 31-13 in '77 in Lincoln. None of those years included a National Championship for Nebraska.
On the nnorthern exterior of their stadium, the national championship years are listed. Thought there was a big gap until ‘95, but I defer to any Huskerophiles.
I guess I had a senior moment when I said Nebraska won the National Championship in 1975. It was an interesting experience for me, though.
IU had a player named Don Shanz (sp?) and he was a horse. I did a feature story on him that mentioned he could bench press something like 450 pounds, had a black belt in karate and was a bouncer at a bar during the summer. The AP or UPI then ran the story on a nationally and the Nebraska players were waiting for him when we arrived on a Friday for a walk through at Nebraska's stadium.
The Nebraska players then focused on Shanz during the game, beat the heck out of him and it made him mad at me. He told me to never do a story like that on him again before a game.
I also had to do a preview regarding the game. I called Nebraska head coach Tom Osborne at his office several times, left messages for him to return my call and he neglected to do it. After noticing his home phone number on the documentation I had, I called him at home on a Thursday evening.
It made Coach Osborne so mad at first. He raved at me and told me to never call him at his home again. I apologized several times and he eventually became very nice to me. At the end of our conversation, he asked me to stop by after the game and introduce myself to him.
I barely finished my preview article before deadline time, we flew to Nebraska and I covered the game. Afterward, I introduced myself to Coach Osborne and he was a class act.
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I thought Dan meant those who have blogs when referring to little media guys. You could be right in that he is just talking about the local press in general.
Remembering one article, maybe in the IDS, about Lee Corso and the IU football team at OSU. Don't remember the details but Corso at a time out before the half had a team picture taken in front of the scoreboard. IU was barely ahead.
The remainder of the game was all OSU.
Was so weird. But that was Coach Corso.
McNutt...did you write that. Cracked me up.
I seem to recall that this game was at home. We had a lead and Corso called a time out .. had the seniors go out on the field at took a picture of them in front of the scoreboard.
CORRECTION: Some of the best architecture in the country. I'd put it right up there with Savannah, GA...
A government controlled economy.....you mean like with the use of Tariffs?
Was the Big Chef a single patty and the Super Chef a double?Sadly, you never will.
It is...it's a funny joke.
First time I heard that little nickname...I was in high school and snuck into Nick's to watch an IU game...somebody shouted "oh no not Jockitch!" when he came into the game...
I believe I did write it. If I remember correctly, it was the fall of 1975 and I covered that game in Columbus, OH. Our IDS photographer (a big guy) took the picture. By the way, the press conference afterward was awful. We had to sit in seats and raise our hands to ask Woody Hayes questions.
I just now realized I didn't write it because it happened at home against OSU in 1976. I was covering the game for the Daily Reporter, but I didn't write that article for the IDS.
Big Chef was a double patty burger just like the Big Mac (only better) with a thousand island like dressing.
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