As I get ready to watch Virginia Tech play Kansas in the Orange bowl tonight I just can’t help but thank how crappy this is. It is tough enough that the Cornhuskers didn’t make a bowl but that pain is multiplied significantly for me since I live in Kansas City. The Huskers not playing in a bowl in a post season where we see Missouri in the Cotton Bowl and Kansas in the Orange bowl just downright sucks. Big time.
It is amazing the number of Kansas and Missouri football fans that have seemingly crawled out of the woodwork. I thought it was bad several years ago when K-State was experiencing some success on the gridiron but this has just gotten ridiculous. At least back then we were still winning nine plus games a season and going to a bowl. Now that that fair weather Wildcat fans have finally packed their purple away we now have to deal with those annoying tiger tails sticking out of car trunks and Rock Chalk Jayhawks.
Now I don’t hate the Jayhawks as much as I do the Tigers but I am guilty of rooting against them in their bowl games. As a Husker fan who purchased their Big 12 CCG tickets back in March I was at the game in San Antonio and rooting against the Missouri with all my might. The Cotton Bowl was bad enough, but could you imagine having to live with these fans if their team went to the National Championship? It give me nightmares!
If only I could say “Well Nebraska beat WVU in the Fiesta Bowl” instead of “KU didn’t play anyone” and “Missouri had their best season in almost 50 years and they go to the Cotton Bowl *laugh*”. The last two make me feel like a total loser. So as you can tell being a Husker fan with no bowl is bad enough. Being a Husker fan in Kansas/Missouri territory makes it even worse.
On the bright side SI.com has a list of greatest college football players and Tommie Frazier is number 15, Mike Rozier number 30 and Bob Brown number 64.