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Nebraska Football’s Home Sellout Streak Among ESPN’s ‘Most Unbreakable Records’
On the afternoon of Nov. 3, 1962, 36,501 fans poured into Memorial Stadium. It was a sellout crowd.
Since that game, every Nebraska home football game has been a sellout. That’s a total of 403 home games, a source of great pride for Huskers fans.
That remarkable streak made an ESPN list published Wednesday, under the headline: “College football’s 10 most unbreakable records”. Nebraska’s streak did not make ESPN’s top 10, but was one of 12 “honorable mentions,” named by ESPN.
Nebraska lost that game, 16-7, to Missouri. It was the Cornhuskers’ first loss in coach Bob Devaney’s first season. The Huskers finished 9-2 in 1962. Who could have ever known this game would be the beginning of such an incredible streak.
Noel Martin scored the Nebraska touchdown on an 88-yard pass interception return. The game was broadcast on CBS.
Huskermax.com has an image of a ticket from the game. Price of admission for that reserved seat: $4.
Here’s what ESPN writer Chris Low wrote about the streak: “The Huskers have suffered through some lean times over the past decade, and while packed stadiums and sellouts aren’t necessarily the same thing, every ticket available to the public has been sold for 60-plus years.
“Admittedly, Nebraska has been forced to get creative to keep the streak alive, with corporations and donors buying up unused tickets at discount prices. But still … 403 straight sellouts!”
The second-longest streak is Oklahoma with 129 games, followed by Georgia with 52.
Nebraska’s home record during the streak is 326-77. In 2020, no tickets were sold for home games against Penn State, Illinois and Minnesota because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The current capacity of Memorial Stadium is 85,458.
The United States was cautiously emerging from the Cuban Missile Crisis. The week before the game, the Soviets agreed to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba.
The No. 1 movie in the United States was “The Manchurian Candidate”, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh.
Some of the top-rated TV shows included: “Wagon Train,” “Bonanza,” “Gunsmoke,” and “Hazel”.
The No. 1 song was “Monster Mash” by Bobby (Boris) Pickett & Crypt Kickers.
In the NBA, Wilt Chamberlain scored 72 points as his San Francisco Warriors lost to the Los Angeles Lakers, 127-115.
* Oklahoma’s 47-game winning streak: The Sooners’ streak went from 1953 to 1957 and included two national championships.
* Barry Sanders’ magic: The dynamic Oklahoma State running back gained 2,628 rushing yards in 11 games in 1988.
* Florida State’s top-5 finishes: Coach Bobby Bowden’s Seminoles finished in the top 5 of every final Associated Press poll from 1987 to 2000. That’s 14 consecutive top-5 finishes, and included national titles in 1993 and 1999.
* Oklahoma’s wishbone offense: In 1971, the Sooners averaged 472.4 rushing yards per game. OU’s offensive coordinator was Barry Switzer.
* Interceptions, galore: Florida quarterback John Reaves threw nine interceptions on 66 passing attempts on 1969 against Auburn.
* Derrick Thomas’ sacks: The Alabama linebacker had a record 27 sacks in 1988.
* Antonio Perkins scores and scores: The Oklahoma punt returner had three touchdowns against UCLA in 2003. His punt-return TDs went 84, 74 and 65 yards, in OU’s 59-24 victory. His 277 yards were an NCAA record.
* Marcus Allen on the run: The USC star rushed for more than 200 yards in eight of 11 games in 1981. He won the Heisman Trophy that year.
* Patrick Mahomes: The Texas Tech quarterback set an FBS record of 819 yards of total offense in a 66-59 loss to Baker Mayfield and Oklahoma in 2016. Mahomes completed 52-of-88 passes for 734 yards and five touchdowns. He also gained 85 yards and scored two touchdowns on the ground.
* Nick Saban: His Alabama teams won 100 consecutive games against unranked opponents, the longest streak in the AP poll era. Saban finished with a 123-4 record against unranked opponents.
* Florida has scored in 461 consecutive games, a current streak. The Gators haven’t been shut out since Oct. 29, 1988.
* Houston quarterback Andre Ware, in the first half, passed for 517 yards and six touchdowns against SMU in 1989. Houston won, 95-21.
* Michigan running back Mike Hart didn’t lose a fumble from 2004-08, a total of 1,005 carries.
* Alabama won 27 consecutive games against SEC opponents from 1976-80.
* East Carolina quarterback Dominique Davis completed 36 consecutive passes over two games in 2011. The first 10 were against Memphis and the next 26 were against Navy.
* Georgia committed 13 turnovers, an NCAA record, against rival Georgia Tech in 1951.
* North Dakota State allowed just three punt returns in 14 games in 2016.
* In 1993, Vanderbilt did not have a touchdown pass. The Commodores are the last team do not have a TD pass in an entire season.
* In 2018 and 2019, Wake Forest kicker Nick Sciba made 34 consecutive field goals.
* In 2016, San Diego State’s Donnel Pumphrey gained 6,405 rushing yards in 54 games. That broke Ron Dayne’s record of 6,397 yards in 43 games at Wisconsin.
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The future of data centers in Nebraska took center stage at a North Omaha town hall Thursday evening.
The event was hosted by State Sens. Terrell McKinney and Ashlei Spivey, who alongside Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh sponsored a bill in the Nebraska Legislature that looked to help regulate data centers.
Parts of their bill were adopted and passed in LB1010, which requires reports on annual power usage, water usage and ownership.
“Having this passed in a package showed a lot of bipartisan work,” Spivey told a crowd of attendees at Nelson Mandela Elementary School.
The proposed regulations were shaped in part by Bold Nebraska, an advocacy group focused on eminent domain and clean energy. Jane Kleeb, chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party and founder of Bold Nebraska, said before the bill passed there were “zero laws on the books” to address a boom in data centers.
“If one is coming into the community, we wanted to make sure that there were some basic transparency things in place,” Kleeb said.
Political discussions around data centers heated up in recent months following reporting by the Flatwater Free Press that showed Google is considering a data center in Nebraska that could require more than three times the amount of power the entire city of Lincoln uses at peak demand in the summer.
The Nebraska Legislature recently passed another bill, LB1261, that allows private developers to build and own power plants to serve a large industrial customer, including data centers. That bill was proposed by the governor’s office and celebrated by Gov. Jim Pillen.
“Our state is once again taking a bold and strategic step – one that will create an environment that attracts business and multibillion dollar investment, while legally preserving Nebraska’s unique and consumer-friendly public power model,” Pillen said at the time.
At Thursday’s town hall, McKinney called LB1261 “the bogeyman bill.”
“It’s a bill that the governor pushed through the legislature to allow for data centers to create their own power,” McKinney said. “It’s a bill that I stood on the floor and said this is going to harm our communities.”
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – Hundreds of people are without power in southeast Nebraska after a severe storm passed through Thursday morning.
The Lincoln Electric System outage map showed 115 customers without power across the city at 11:36 a.m.
Norris Public Power District’s outage map also shows 45 customers affected by the storm. As of 11:36 a.m., there were nine active outages.
According to the Nebraska Public Power District outage map, 657 customers were affected by the storm. Most of the affected customers were near Plattsmouth in southeast Nebraska. As of 11:37 a.m., 27 customers remain without power.
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Mandatory evacuations have been ordered near Crawford, including Fort Robinson State Park, as the South Fork Fire continues to spread in western Nebraska.
According to the City of Crawford, evacuations are currently underway for an area north of Crawford that includes the area south of Dodd Road, west of Dodd Road, and FF Street.
Fort Robinson has also been evacuated.
The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission said Fort Robinson State Park and Peterson Wildlife Management Area have been temporarily closed due to the fire.
The fire has burned approximately 9,000 acres and is currently 0% contained, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
Nebraska Game and Parks said the park and the WMA will remain closed until further notice to support firefighting operations and protect public safety.
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