Bleeding Husker Red

For more times than I care to recall, I sat in disbelief Saturday as my beloved Cornhuskers continued a downward spiral.  I would never blame the players, but I can blame the people behind the program and their personal motivations back in 2003 to change a tradition of excellence.  I believe the program is doomed at it's current pace and must steer clear of the iceberg looming in it's path.  The changes need to start from the top (Perlman) and proceed downhill (Pederson) until the plague is purged (Callahan) from our program.

Do I have a right to make such a demand? You bet.  I still have the picture of the bedsheet I drew Husker helmets on in 1966, with my favorite player's names under each helmet, one of which being Frank Solich, and proudly hung that sheet on the front of my parent's house on N. 77th Ave. in Omaha.  I have the right to demand action for my father,  who believed Tom Osborne was the closest thing to Nebraska royalty there was, enough so to be buried in his Husker red overalls, Nebraska hat, red patent leather husker boots and to have Herbie Husker engraved on his headstone.  I share my father's belief in Tom Osborne, especially when Tom would visit my restaurant in Lincoln a couple times a week with his grandchildren.  I would actually choke up telling him about my father.

My father left  me all his Husker memorabilia.  The Johnny Rodgers decanter, the old programs, one of which was a 1971 Oklahoma program with Bob Devaney's autograph on the inside cover.  He also left me with Husker pride.  Husker pride of winnng traditions.  Husker pride of honest, team spirit.  He did not leave the tradition of self serving decisions made by Husker "politicians" designed to cover, hide and deceive the Husker faithful.  Bill Byrne maynot have made popular decisions, but at least he was honest and forthright with them

Perlman, Pederson and Callahan have managed to accomplish many things during this era of self service.  They have managed to dissolve decades long traditions and records.  Breaking records for the negative.  The end for this trio and their band of merry thieves must end now.  They have stolen our pride and our hope.  And, they have derailed a proud tradition of excellence to the point that we, the Husker faithful, now pray that the team can at least rise to mediocrity.

Mediocrity is not a Husker tradition and it needs to leave with the people that brought to our state and our stadium.  God bless the Husker faithful, the players and our forefathers who made football at Nebraska great.  God's speed to the people who need to go be mediocre somewhere else.