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Husk it, Ags
Want to return from the Nebraska road trip? Let us help you out
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BY SUSAN OVERCASH
The Battalion
S core! No guys, not with that cute blonde
in your history class — score as in you
and eight of your best friends (i.e. Corp
buddies, frat brothers, angry OSU fans) score
some choice seats for Saturday’s football game
at Nebraska. Well, “choice” may be an exag
geration, unless you count the nosebleed sec
tion in Memorial Stadium.
You know — the section at that exact, odd
angle between the most rabid student section
and the most rabid alumni section that makes
McCown and our trusty Ags look as tiny as
Peter Pan and his Wild Bunch compared to
Frank Solich’s corn-bred, corn-fed Midwest
ern farm boys.
Nevertheless, tomorrow you’ll be sitting in
Lincoln, Nebraska, watching your hands turn
a tasty color of blue in the early Nebraska win
ter, sitting on an icy bench shouting until your
throat is hoarse and painful amidst a sea of
hostile ’Husker fans, out for blood.
In this hostile and somewhat alien envi
ronment, ’Husker fans have been known to try
to explain the Texas-Nebraska series with
those mysterious crop circles. A few tips may
help you part the Red Sea and become the
friendly football fan hiding within, as well as
save your life.
(Stay Alive (Part II).
(Stay Alive (Part I).
RUBEN DELUNA/Tm: Battalion
Those of you wearing sandals and tanks,
listen up. Nebraska is cold. Not College Sta
tion, “Oh no, its in the high 60s!” cold; Lin
coln regularly records temperatures in the neg
atives (for those of you business majors out
there, those are the numbers BELOW zero). A
good football fan is always prepared for any
weather conditions.
Crissy Leader, a sophomore communica
tions studies major at the University of Ne
braska at Lincoln, said the weather is freez
ing in the morning and warms up in the
afternoon.
“I started out this morning wearing a coat,
it was about 28 degrees,” Leader said. “But it
usually warms up some in the afternoon, into
the fifties.”
The 50s; you don’t say. According to the
Weather Channel, the low temperature in Lin
coln for Saturday will be about 30 degrees. For
Aggies, used to summer in summer and sum
mer in winter, a temperature under 50 degrees
means, well — January.
The idea here is to take a coat, gloves, hat,
ski mask and any other piece of clothing that
may stave off hypothermia.
Leader, however, did have good news for
students taking a date.
“We wear tons of sweats and gloves, and
we stay warm through body heat,” Leader
said. “There’s like 10,000 people in every
block of seating.”
borne advice: throwing objects at the Ne
braska football team is a bad idea. This is not
only bad form and completely cheesy (read:
Texas Tech), but it may also cause you bodi
ly harm.
A major aspect of becoming a better fan is
not patronizing, or throwing things at the op
posing team and their fans.
Leader said, Nebraska fans are ill-disposed to
an Aggie fan trying to nail Nebraska quarterback
Eric Crouch with any type of fruit or vegetable.
“The team went down to Mizzou, and the
crowd there threw stuff at them, oranges and
batteries,” Leader said. “We actually have a
net to protect our players and had to pull it out
at that game.”
Although throwing things is not a general
ly accepted Aggie tradition, try to stay away
from pelting the ’Huskers with an inanimate
or animate object.
Kyle Noyes, a senior petroleum engineering
major, also advised students that to be better
Aggie fans and possibly stay out of the hospi
tal, it is important not to start fights with Ne
braska fans.
“Remember, we’re in another team’s sta
dium,” Noyes said. “There’s no reason to get
in their faces, especially if we’re kicking butt
like we should be — what goes around,
comes around.”
A final piece of advice from Leader, do not
comment on the Nebraska players’ collective
legal troubles.
(Same Idea - Make Us Proud.
Not patronizing the ’Huskers just to save
your own skin may be enough to be a good fan
at another school, say, Texas. However, here
in Aggieland, you are expected to act honor
ably at all times to make the rest of us look
good, as well.
The ugly truth is, students here are people,
too, and occasionally act immaturely or irre
sponsibly at public events like football games.
Casey Anderson, a senior meteorology major,
said he was recently embarrassed by some stu
dents’ actions at the Southern Miss. game.
“I was sitting on the front row of the sec
ond deck, and a couple of intoxicated students
next to me were leaning over the edge, shout
ing obscenities and cursing at the opposing
team’s fans,” Anderson said.
“How can we call ourselves a world class
university if we admit students who are too
immature to behave responsibly in public?”
It has already been established that Nebras
ka fans are not particularly amiable to hearing
words your mother probably didn’t teach you.
But you are not just putting your life in jeop
ardy by acting like a fool; you are also threat
ening the good reputation of this University and
the students that attend school here.
Nate Rodriguez, a senior petroleum engi
neering major, said that badmouthing coach
ing decisions may also make the Aggies look
foolish to the opposing team.
“Don’t badmouth R.C. Slocum after the
third down and 15-yard draw play,” Rodriguez
said. “You know it’s going to happen.”
So be the good fan hiding deep within, and
when Cornelius Anthony sacks the Nebraska
quarterback for a 10 yard loss, try a simple
“WHOOP!” instead of shouting insults.
Also, when the Ags are up 47 to 3 over the
‘Huskers, remember the Oklahoma game, and
try to have some sympathy.
Wear Your Boogie echoes.
Whether we win or lose, you’re probably
going to be leaving Memorial at a record pace.
The biggest difference: will you be carrying
a goal post at the same time?
Also, some of those ’Huskers may be pret
ty good revelers, so you may end up wanting
to boogie later that evening with a whole dif
ferent culture, a world that uses the word
“Pop” instead of “Coke.”
First, students have traditionally been
discouraged to tear down any parts of op
posing team’s stadiums in celebration of
winning 47 to 3.
However, part of being a good fan is being
a good winner, or loser, and caring about the
game so much that the emotion sweeps you
away.
Noyes said he thought students should be
free to express their emotions about the game.
“I think we should be able to run on the
field and tear down the goal post,” Noyes
said. “People say you shouldn’t do that, but
those people have never felt that kind of emo
tion for a game.”
Despite winning or losing, students are also
free to express their emotions after the game,
boogying the night away in the nearest Mid
western bar.
Tara Pawling, a junior broadcasting major
at Nebraska, said she thought both Corn-
husker and Aggie fans, although a little bitter
if they lose, still consider after-game partying
part of being a good fan.
“Everybody here hits O Street and goes to
all the bars,” Pawling said. “There’s usually a
lot of opposing fans there, as well.”
So allow the good fan within you to come
out and you might survive to make the trip
back to Aggieland. Be friendly, even if the
’Husker fans aren’t.
Don’t throw things. Make us proud by be
ing proud of our school.
But most of all, win or lose, have a good
time, and remember, it’s just a game. Oh yeah
— and beat the hell outta Nebraska.
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