Nebraska sellout streak

[ICHawk24]

The dirty secret about Husker Stadium is that an inordinate percentage of their seats are in the end zones. And not just in the end zone, but like a bazillion rows away from the field.

Go to google images and look at photos. They had a 62k seat stadium in 1966 that they grew to 87k almost entirely by adding more and more rows to the top of the end zones.

 

[Jonrn]

I don’t understand what does a fake sellout streak get them?

Same thing as a national championship in 1971 and 80K at their spring game. Something for low IQ Nebraska fans to think about as they stare out the window at the bleak February gray skies and talk to their coworkers about and on twitter.

 

[punter]

low IQ Nebraska fans.

You’re repeating yourself.

 

[Caven]

I have never been to Memorial stadium but for who that have been what is the atmosphere like compared to some of the other venues? Regardless if they have all the sellouts does the crowd make it that much more of an intimidating place to play or are they a bunch of hand sitters and old timers like the people that fill TCF stadium

In-laws had season tickets for the first 15 years that I lived in Lincoln (moved here in 2000) and I went whenever Iowa had an away game since I still have Iowa season tickets. It can get loud - but not sustained. Even at its loudest it doesn't compare to Kinnick - the bowl is too shallow and the seats are too far back from the sidelines. They have had a LOT of problems with older fans complaining about people yelling and standing in front of them in the past, but I think that those are the fans are slowly giving up their tickets since they were alive during the glory years and can't stomach what Nebraska has become so it is slowly becoming more lively and loud. I just don't think that it will ever be a terribly intimidating place to play given the shape of the stadium.