Under the get a life category: NE football coach gets DEATH threats because his team lost

[proud2BlibKansan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij3tDEZxCfg

I lived in NE for a couple years in the 70s and my most lasting memory is the insane football fans there. It's a beautiful state and the people are very friendly but some of them take a game WAY too seriously. I see that has not changed.

[yourout]

1. I coached youth football for 10 years and I have seen some things.....

you would not belive.
Parents ready to rumble on the field.
Kids getting tossed from games and their mother calling the police.
Coaches tell kids to take out knees.

Football seems to bring out the ugly in some people.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Not just football. Parents get weird over other sports too *shaking head*

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. My dad was a high school coach for almost 40 years

So I hear ya.

[marmar]

4. If only people would get that worked up over being lied into a war, .....

the systematic destruction of the economy, the elimination of civil liberties etc. ....


Sigh and cry. :cry:

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Amen to that

[WilliamPitt]

6. New England football teams aren't supposed to lose.

I guess this coach didn't get ther memo.

;)

[sniffa]

7. jags better watch his back

:rofl:

[MaineYooper]

9. Not that it changes the gist of the story, but it's Nebraska

The Cornhusker fans just haven't gotten used to the fact that the Big 12 (formerly Big 8) just isn't the big two (NE and OK) anymore.

Sad when it's taken to such insane extremes.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. They are really freaking out this year

Kansas is undefeated. In football. Hell is freezing over all around the Big 12. LOL

[knitter4democracy]

15. Same in the Big Ten. UofM losing like this? Notre Dame losing?

Northwestern actually winning stuff? Minds are boggling over here, too.

Btw, the only two good conferences, in my book, are the Big 10 and the Big 12. Pac 10's okay, they have a few good teams, but really, it's the Midwestern teams that play good ball. :)

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. I'm a Big 8 purist

Those damn Texas teams ruined a great conference.

[knitter4democracy]

18. Amen to that.

:)

Normally, I'd say that we shouldn't have taken in Penn State, but they've really added to the fun of the conference games.

Now, if we could just get all the sports writers to see how bad the SEC is and how awful Florida teams are in general, we might get a better place in the polls.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. NE = NEBRASKA

[undeterred]

8. I went to University of Illinois when the team was terrible

and the coach's kids used to get all kinds of harrassment at school. People are jerks.

[MadHound]

10. While I'm not condoning this, it isn't suprising

Nebraska fans have been entirely too used to being on top for years and decades. This has bred an entitlement mentality in their fans, and now that they aren't on top, they're reacting by lashing out at the coach, the players, what have you. Truly disgusting.

What's sad, though no sort of excuse for this behavior, is that the Nebraska administration set up the program for a big fall. Frank Solich took over for Tom Osborne and successfully coached the team in the time honored NE football manner, physical, run first football. But his last year, he lost three games and the fickle fans were howling for blood because *gasp* they weren't in the championship or a BCS bowl. So the administration bowed to the fans' wishes and fired him. Then they bring in Bill Calahan, whose game is West Coast finesse, heavy on the aerial attack. The team that he took over wasn't built for this, and thus failed. Failure has built on failure now, and the fans are frothing at the mouth. Being a Missouri fan, I love watching these stuck up, full of themselves fans get their comeuppance, but death threats are taking it too far.

The fans might as well get used to the idea that Nebraska football is going to be in the wilderness for a long while. Callahan is going to be fired at the end of the season, and thus there will be some more down time during this transition. In addition, with the success of Kansas and Missouri, Nebraska recruiting has been seriously undermined. No longer can they raid these two states of their best players, they're staying home with the in state powerhouses. And frankly, Nebraska is a sparsely populated state, and their player pool is pretty small. In my opinion, this couldn't happen to a better team. They and their fans are arrogant assholes until they get their asses kicked, and then they are nothing more than low class thugs. I remember when Missouri beat them for the first time in forever four years ago. As the players were walking off the field, the Missouri fans swarmed it and one of the Nebraska players lashed out, punching a fan into the ground(the player was later found guilty of assault). This is the Nebraska mentality, and frankly they and their fans need some humbling, learn some humility, learn how to be decent players and fans.

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. I felt sorry for these fans when I lived there

That football team is all they have. Here in KC, we have a baseball team and an NFL team and 3 different Big 12 schools close enough to travel to games. So there is usually at least one team having a good season.

[MadHound]

14. Living in Columbia during the dark days of Missouri football, I have nothing but contempt for them

I don't know, maybe they're better behaved at home, but when they travel, they're assholes. They bully their way throughout the city that they're visiting, they're drunk, rude, crude and violent. They tear down the flags and decorations of home tailgaters, they act like bullies and thugs, getting into drunken frenzies that usually see them gang beating their opposing fans(more than one, or 100, Nebraska fans have been arrested and charged by CPD or MUPD). I've had Nebraska fans try to bully their way into taking my seat, and the only reason that they didn't is because I'm a big guy who doesn't intimidate easily.

I have no sympathy for Nebraska fans. Frankly I hope that they have to spend a couple of decades out in the football wilderness. Then, like I said earlier, they will learn humility, and how to be a decent fan.

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. I hear ya

When I lived there, there was a guy who lived on a busy street in Omaha who had a neon sign in his yard. GO BIG RED! My dad was a coach and I grew up in a sports family. We never missed a Chiefs home game for years. We went to dozens of A's and Royals games every summer. But I never knew anyone crazy enough to put up a big neon sign in their yard.