It doesn't work, looking for a different college football team, madam.
I was born and raised during the glory days of the Nebraska Cornhuskers; when the smallest state in the union with a major college football program (it's changed now, with Idaho being in here) made the giants of California, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Indiana, Iowa, Washington, Kansas, Missouri, &c., &c., &c. (it's not hard to be a giant when compared with little Nebraska), quiver in their boots and lose the contents of their intestines in their pants.
But that all ended when Steve Pedersen became athletic director at the University of Nebraska, and decided Nebraska should stop being Nebraska, and be like everybody else instead.
Being like Southern California, like Ohio State, like Florida, like Texas, was hip, cool, and trendy; being the way Nebraska had always been was boring and old hat.
After which the glory, the tradition, the record of 115 years of college football went down the drain.
As we all know, Nebraska flopped, and flopped abysmally, when Nebraska became like everybody else.
Well, the wrong was sort of (please notice the "sort of") ameliorated when both Steve Pedersen and the coach Bill O'Callahan (or whatever his name was) were fired, but hey, it's going to take another 115 years to get back to where we were before.
I'm not only a Nebraska Cornhusker football fan, but also a graduate of the University of Nebraska.
I'm however considerably less of a fan than I used to be; Nebraska losing a game doesn't bother me.....much.
We're on the road back, but it's a very long road, a hundred years or more, and I won't live to see it, so I'm not as "into" it as I used to be.
For a while, I thought I could transfer my loyalties--for example, I'm a big fan of Ohio State--but such isn't possible. One can't change his past, reneging on the land and the people that gave one life.
It's a bitch.
