Posted on 09/24/2009 2:26:08 AM PDT by bushpilot1
Rod Hansen was at Memorial Stadium when Bob Devaney coached his first football game at Nebraska in 1962.
He was there to watch Heisman Trophy winners Johnny Rodgers, Mike Rozier and Eric Crouch, and he saw Tom Osborne finish his coaching career with three national titles in four years in the 1990s.
The 71-year-old Hansen watched Nebraska’s winning tradition crumble under Bill Callahan, and he’s been there to see Bo Pelini try to rebuild it.
In all kinds of weather, Hansen has been at the venerable stadium for every game of an NCAA-record sellout streak that will hit 300 when the Cornhuskers play Louisiana-Lafayette on Saturday. “When I had the opportunity to buy season tickets, I jumped on it,” said Hansen, who secured his treasured ducats in 1965 and makes the drive to Lincoln from his home in Omaha. “It’s just a good time. There were a lot of great teams, a lot of great memories. It’s just a love for the game and a love for Nebraska.” In the NFL, the Washington Redskins have sold out every home game since 1966. That’s 328 regular-season games, 341 including playoffs. The Boston Red Sox started a streak in 2003 that’s destined to number 549 games by the end of the regular season.
In the NBA, the Portland Trail Blazers sold out 744 in a row from 1977-95. In the NHL, the Colorado Avalanche packed the house 487 times from 1995-2006.
On the calendar, Nebraska’s streak has outlasted them all.
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I agree with you on the 1971 team. But having Osbourne look the other way while Lawrence Phillips had serious repeat issues like beating up on women, and only suspended him for a couple games in the middle of the season instead of kicking him off the team, as he should have. But he made sure he was back for the games that would guarantee them the Fiesta Bowl bid. And made him the starter for the Fiesta Bowl instead of kicking him off the team tarnishes the 1995 teams record. Its a shame because they still had Ahman Green on the team who was an incredible college RB. Osbourne sold out that year.
Many tried and failed to help Phillips. I read a few months ago he is in prison.
...and their second consecutive loss.
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