The ride from Iowa City was horrible. I'm riding straight into a storm-front that runs from New Mexico to Minnesota. It's not if it's going to rain, but when. And it's cold and windy. I was lucky to make it to Lincoln and find a hotel just as the sky opened up. They got an inch and a half of rain that night, but it was all clear by morning.
The Fall of 1978 was my very first semester at IU, and Nebraska came in and just beat the crap out of us. Something like 55 to 0. They had a Heisman caliber running back named I.M. Hipp, and he scored 4 touchdowns that day (and was Nebraska's all-time rushing leader, even though he missed part of his senior year due to injury).
I'd call this the alumni side of the stadium.
This is the student side, and it looks like they are spending a little money to make some more room. Also known as Memorial Stadium, it currently seats about 86,000. Capacity will still be less than 100,000 when the construction is done, but they are also building a brand-new basketball stadium.
The amazing part is that Nebraska has sold out every football game since 1962. That's every single game for 50 years!! Having 5 national championships has got to help, but either way, this has got to be a fun place to watch a college football game.
This is the Nebraska Union building. Enough said.
I have to say that the city of Lincoln really is a dump. Not a single attractive building there. I had some pretty good bbq, though. The place had a sign that said it took "three years, two fist-fights, and one kitchen- fire" to perfect the recipe for their bbq sauce.
