Eric the Red
Team HuskerBoard
This is what it’s all about, it’s Longhorn week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Got my column out early this week. Feelin’ the vibes early folks. Feelin’ good vibes, excited vibes. Sure last week against ISU we got stale on offense, but the defense came through. Huskers were looking ahead. They got plenty up their sleeve. 
Studied some of the statistics and it looks like it will be quite a tall order for the Huskers. Huskers although ranked up to ten spots higher than Texas, will most likely be the underdog, most likely a touchdown or so. Longhorn offense is very balanced. 205 rushing and 221 passing. They have two quarterbacks that can play. Young, the freshman, can run like a deer and has got a cannon for an arm. Talked to Dirty Dale a couple weeks ago who was living down in Texas last two years, around the Denton area, said he got to see Young play as a senior and he was sick. Vick like sh#t man. He apparently has solidified himself as the starter. Although Cedric Benson was not in uniform last week. Apparently he is under investigation for trespassing. Lets see what happens there. <_<
Interestingly on defense, they are not too shabby either. If you take away the Oklahoma game the Longhorn defense has only given up around forty points. Stout D. Though Nebraska has everything else easily bettered with the Blackshirts.
One thing that is glaring to me is that the Longhorns are giving up 166 yards on the ground, 76th in the country. Also sticking out to me is that there doesn’t appear to be an overwhelming home field advantage. Nebraska has always played the Horns tight and this year alone, Texas has lost only two games, both in the state of Texas.
My fellow Huskers, I feel something nibbling at my heart for this game. I believe it won’t be pretty. It won’t picturesque. It won’t be dominating and it won’t be flashy. But it will be a victory. This team, more exact, this defense has worked entirely too hard to lose this game. They have the drive, the heart, the desire, the unity, the work ethic, the speed, and the unquenchable thirst to make us proud. To make all Nebraskans proud. They will not sway, they will not falter, and they can’t and will not accept defeat. There is a freshman quarterback playing for Texas who has only seen one dominating defense all year and got crushed. He couldn’t pick up on the schemes and you know what?? Our defense is better. It’s stronger. It’s quicker. It has stars. It has guys named to Butkas semifinal lists, mid-season All-American teams, it has an interception leader. It has no- names, which are the nucleus of the nations #1 defense. There are guys named Ruud, T.J., Teamer, and LaKevin. That no one has ever heard of. All together if they play at the level they are capable of they can and will beat Texas in Austin on Saturday November 1, 2003. They have the will and the biggest set of nuts in these parts than any team in the last few years. Most of all they have a big, bright red “N” on their helmet.
Don’t get me wrong. Texas will drive, but they will not capitalize. Turnovers, miscues and downs will force them to take field goals. The Huskers will be sluggish for most of the day on offense and will the defense to fight for them, that is until the fourth quarter when they will explode for 14 big ones.
It’s all on the defense's shoulders, Huskers in a squeaker NU…. 23 UT…. 19
A sentimental, prideful
Eric “the Red”
Ps For those going to the game, cheer for all those who wish they were at the game. Be careful and cheer until there is nothing left and then find it and cheer even louder…………………………..
GO BIG RED
Studied some of the statistics and it looks like it will be quite a tall order for the Huskers. Huskers although ranked up to ten spots higher than Texas, will most likely be the underdog, most likely a touchdown or so. Longhorn offense is very balanced. 205 rushing and 221 passing. They have two quarterbacks that can play. Young, the freshman, can run like a deer and has got a cannon for an arm. Talked to Dirty Dale a couple weeks ago who was living down in Texas last two years, around the Denton area, said he got to see Young play as a senior and he was sick. Vick like sh#t man. He apparently has solidified himself as the starter. Although Cedric Benson was not in uniform last week. Apparently he is under investigation for trespassing. Lets see what happens there. <_<
Interestingly on defense, they are not too shabby either. If you take away the Oklahoma game the Longhorn defense has only given up around forty points. Stout D. Though Nebraska has everything else easily bettered with the Blackshirts.
One thing that is glaring to me is that the Longhorns are giving up 166 yards on the ground, 76th in the country. Also sticking out to me is that there doesn’t appear to be an overwhelming home field advantage. Nebraska has always played the Horns tight and this year alone, Texas has lost only two games, both in the state of Texas.
My fellow Huskers, I feel something nibbling at my heart for this game. I believe it won’t be pretty. It won’t picturesque. It won’t be dominating and it won’t be flashy. But it will be a victory. This team, more exact, this defense has worked entirely too hard to lose this game. They have the drive, the heart, the desire, the unity, the work ethic, the speed, and the unquenchable thirst to make us proud. To make all Nebraskans proud. They will not sway, they will not falter, and they can’t and will not accept defeat. There is a freshman quarterback playing for Texas who has only seen one dominating defense all year and got crushed. He couldn’t pick up on the schemes and you know what?? Our defense is better. It’s stronger. It’s quicker. It has stars. It has guys named to Butkas semifinal lists, mid-season All-American teams, it has an interception leader. It has no- names, which are the nucleus of the nations #1 defense. There are guys named Ruud, T.J., Teamer, and LaKevin. That no one has ever heard of. All together if they play at the level they are capable of they can and will beat Texas in Austin on Saturday November 1, 2003. They have the will and the biggest set of nuts in these parts than any team in the last few years. Most of all they have a big, bright red “N” on their helmet.
Don’t get me wrong. Texas will drive, but they will not capitalize. Turnovers, miscues and downs will force them to take field goals. The Huskers will be sluggish for most of the day on offense and will the defense to fight for them, that is until the fourth quarter when they will explode for 14 big ones.
It’s all on the defense's shoulders, Huskers in a squeaker NU…. 23 UT…. 19
A sentimental, prideful
Eric “the Red”
Ps For those going to the game, cheer for all those who wish they were at the game. Be careful and cheer until there is nothing left and then find it and cheer even louder…………………………..
GO BIG RED 
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