ALL THINGS NEBRASKA

Does a ‘ curse’ dog Nebraska football? The old Peanuts comic strip featured a recurring gag involving Lucy and Charlie Brown. Lucy would tee up a football, but just when Charlie was about to kick the ball, she would pull the football away. “AAUGH” Charlie would scream as he flipped and fell to the ground. You kind of got the same reaction (or something more profane) the other night when the Huskers lost a third straight football game after leading the score going into the fourth quarter. A win was all teed up. All we had to do was kick the ball. Well, the frustration and futility of the once championship football program now has some metrics we can ascribe to it, courtesy of an old buddy, Henry Cordes, now a reporter for the Flatwater Free Press. Henry’s story found that Nebraska has doubled its spending on the football program, to $71 million, over the past three years.

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