with ticket prices at $10 and $15 and kids for free they had 76,881 fans in attendance!
http://btn.com/2015/04/11/nebraska-spring-football
http://btn.com/2015/04/11/nebraska-spring-football
slightly OT: Nebraska Football Spring Game
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If you live in Nebraska, how close are you to a professional team in any major sport?
If you live in New Jersey you are closer to a dozen professional teams than any Nebraskan is to their closest.
So people growing up here hear about and see items about those teams all the time.
And since the TV stations are from NYC and Philly the problem is compounded.
A sports report in Nebraska often leads with a score from a Husker game
and I'm not just talking football.
If you live in New Jersey you are closer to a dozen professional teams than any Nebraskan is to their closest.
So people growing up here hear about and see items about those teams all the time.
And since the TV stations are from NYC and Philly the problem is compounded.
A sports report in Nebraska often leads with a score from a Husker game
and I'm not just talking football.
Their support level is based on several factors....1) winning tradition , 2) nothing else to do in the state, and 3) homogenous population of like-minded people. The northeast is just so diverse with not only different cultures but also diversity of interests.
One of the main reasons why Nebraska's Spring Game draws such a huge crowd is that for many Husker fans (especially families)...that is the only game they ever get to go to...as tix to Nebraska regular season games are many times hard to get...as their sellout streak started in 1962
Nebraska Spring Game Crowd 2015
Nebraska Spring Game Crowd 2015
Forget everything else. They absolutely love their team...And they have fans coming in from western Iowa and South Dakota .A major event out there.. Good for them.....
I know there is not a lot to do in Nebraska, but that still is amazing. How many other programs in states where there is not a lot to do draws like that for a scrimmage? I don't know why people can't just say it's great rather then try to rationalize why it's not that big a deal.
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I would compare the spring game over there to the NJ pilgrimage to the shore on Memorial Day weekend
They come from Kansas, Missouri, CALIFORNIA, TEXAS, ALASKA and even Hawaii for home games.
One of the coolest things about my visit to Lincoln for a game was seeing all the booster clubs from out-of-state that were flying inside and outside the stadium.
Hard to find any more loyal fanbase in the world than Husker fans...as they will give up almost anything to go see their team play...REGARDLESS where they call home.
I can't understand why some Rutgers fans keep making lame excuses for poor attendance at sporting events like there is so much to do in NJ versus other states.The reality is other states have a real attachment with their state university and that clearly isn't the case in NJ.
The osu spring game,e is only $5 and there is a lax game before hand to boot - Not very often you get to see to sporting events for only five dollars.
Mr.Screw and I went to the RU-NU game in October. We learned the following:
the closest thing to a professional team they have are the KC Royals (who happened to be in the World Series while we were there)People travel for miles...and I mean miles to get there. We met more than one person who travels 250 miles IN ONE DIRECTION to get to every home game. THAT'S dedication people.
"Huskers" is everywhere....in the hotels, in the bars, in the stores, in the bathrooms..EVERYWHERE.
Huskers stadium becomes the 3rd largest city in Nebraska on game day after Omaha and Lincoln itself. Think about that for a moment...the stadium holds more people on game day than everywhere else in Nebraska except for Lincoln and Omaha.
They take Huskers football ...and every other sport NU plays VERY VERY seriously.
the closest thing to a professional team they have are the KC Royals (who happened to be in the World Series while we were there)People travel for miles...and I mean miles to get there. We met more than one person who travels 250 miles IN ONE DIRECTION to get to every home game. THAT'S dedication people.
"Huskers" is everywhere....in the hotels, in the bars, in the stores, in the bathrooms..EVERYWHERE.
Huskers stadium becomes the 3rd largest city in Nebraska on game day after Omaha and Lincoln itself. Think about that for a moment...the stadium holds more people on game day than everywhere else in Nebraska except for Lincoln and Omaha.
They take Huskers football ...and every other sport NU plays VERY VERY seriously.
Both Des Moines, Iowa and Kansas City, MO are within 3 hours of Lincoln.
Nebraska Basketball finished 12th in the Big Ten...but they were 3rd in Big Ten Attendance (15,569 per game).
Believe Nebraska Volleyball Sellout Streak dates back to 2001...as Nebraska AVERAGED an over capacity 8,083 fans per game this season. (Capacity is 7,907 in the renovated Delaney Center that NU Volleyball moved into 2 years ago).
In their last 5 home BASEBALL Games, Nebraska has drawn more than 24,600 plus fans.
The support their fans give them in almost every sports is just amazing.
This post was edited on 4/12 5:57 PM by Knight_Light
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