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Question for younger Buffs

Was your opinion about CU's rival changed last weekend?

  • No, there has only ever been the fuskers

    Votes: 21 38.2%

  • No, the sheep are CU's rival

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • No, the fuskers and the sheep are both rivals

    Votes: 11 20.0%

  • Yes, the sheep are annoying but I understand true hatred now.

    Votes: 9 16.4%

  • I hate any team, any human or anything that is red or smells vaguely of cow manure.

    Votes: 14 25.5%
  • Total voters
    55
CitizenKane

CitizenKane

Well-Known Member
Since I have to officially move on tomorrow. I have a question for younger Buffs. Did last Saturday's game in Stinkoln change your understanding of what a rival is for CU?
 
I'm young (23) but I also grew up a Buffs fan from birth. I also lived in Nebraska growing up as I'm sure some of you have seen me mention. I think I have the same perspective as you "older" folk. I grew up absolutely hating Nub fans and Nub teams while thinking CSU was below us and we shouldn't really mention them as a rival. Nebraska is our one true rival and for the very long foreseeable future will remain that way. **** the nubs and **** you Frosty boy. Go **** yourself. But I can say that none of my friends and none of the people aside from a select few who grew up Buffs fans knew anything about the Nebraska rivalry
 
CSU isn’t a rival, they’re a speed bump. An annoying speed bump you have to go over at 5MPH because it’s the size of a ****ing mountain. Just a giant annoyance where you’d rather drive around the outside of the parking lot to avoid them but you can’t.

I’m 33 and there has only been Nebraska. I watched this game the day after thanksgiving every year for something like 15 years starting when I was about 10 years old. It was my ritual and I looked forward to it every single year. I miss that. :(
 
I'm 23. I was just starting to become aware of sports in 2001. In fact, when my family first moved to Boulder in 2000, I would play with kids up the street who were from a family with a house that was decked out in 100% Nebraska everything and I didn't really even notice or care because I was 5 and my parents weren't from Colorado. I don't even think we watched 62-36 live, because I remember seeing it on the news and I remember seeing the Big 12 Championship and the Fiesta Bowl live on TV.

By the time I was 7 I was much more up on things. I remember watching the 2002 game and feeling like "Yeah, we really stuck it to 'em. And on the road!" I knew they were the team I was supposed to hate the most and that they were evil, but I didn't really know why. I have no memory of when the rivalry was at its hottest. As a kid when they were still playing every year I intellectually understood that it was a rivalry, but I didn't feel it deep down. Honestly I probably cared more about the CSU game.

The 2015 Rocky Mountain Showdown was a comparable feeling to what I felt on Saturday. Granted I was at the 2015 RMS and I was watching at a bar in California on Saturday, but there you have it. I definitely hate Nebraska more than any other school at the moment, because it's harder to hate CSU when the Buffs are pummeling them every year. But as someone who wasn't even born during the entire Bill McCartney era and who has no memory of the 5 losses by 15 points from 1996-2000, I really don't think I can ever hate Nebraska as much as someone who was around for all of that.
 
Alfred91 said:
I'm not one of the younger crowd, but I voted anyway, lol.

I was happy for CSU when they won the other day. I've never been happy about a Husker win. Ever.

Enough said.
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Yeah. They were the first team Penn State played after the scandal broke. That didn't even drive me to being happy after a Nebraska win. I didn't want PSU to win. It was more like a "**** you, but **** you more!" reaction from me that day.
 
I got a lot of nostalgia this last week, lurking on Huskerpedia and reading just how delusional their fan base is. Reminded me of all the years that I could not wait to read their completely unrealistic thoughts on their beloved corn. They will always be the chief rival just because it is so fun to hate them. Those miserable f***s
 
I ain’t no youngster, but as an example, when that last pass fell incomplete I was with some of my CU classmates and we all spontaneously sang Fight CU. I doubt that passion exists with the younger crowd, with all due respect.
 
Alfred91 said:
I'm not one of the younger crowd, but I voted anyway, lol.

I was happy for CSU when they won the other day. I've never been happy about a Husker win. Ever.

Enough said.
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This is actually a very good point. I, too, was happy for CSU. Don't think I would have been if they had beaten us this year, but my ideal Nebraska season is 0-12 and that will never change. Every loss of theirs brings a smile to my face.
 
StormTrooper said:
This is actually a very good point. I, too, was happy for CSU. Don't think I would have been if they had beaten us this year, but my ideal Nebraska season is 0-12 and that will never change. Every loss of theirs brings a smile to my face.
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This is where I am, and probably have been since before you were born. Welcome to the club! (Not sure you want to acknowledge how much you're identifying with us old guys.)

I sort of like it when CSU wins, as long as they lose against us. If they beat us, I want them to lose every single game that year. If we beat them, as we should, I'd be pretty pleased if they won every other game.

NU OTOH. I never have, and never will be pleased when they win. I hope they lose every game they ever play.

I really want them to lose when they play us.

But, I also really want them to lose when they play anyone else.

Every now and then I question my moral compass when I'm hoping they lose against Pedo State or **** Baylor, because by implication I'm hoping Pedo State or **** Baylor wins. But then I come to my senses and remind myself that as much of a cesspool as those programs are, NU is worse.

**** them and everything they stand for.
 
Darth Snow said:
There is hope for the youth!
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Speaking of which, I think every single current student who is a little tuned in to the football program "gets" the Nebraska thing now, if they didn't already before the game.

Those kids are 2-5 years younger than me.

Next year in Boulder is going to be a hell of an environment. The kids who will be there will never forget it. Next year's freshmen will be seniors for the 2022 season. And then they will tell the freshmen, sophomores and juniors "You guys gotta represent for the Nebraska game next year like we did." The 2023 game will also be an incredible environment, and if they schedule them again before too long of a gap, the cycle can repeat.

Every CU graduating class between 2019 and 2028 will have the experience of being a student for at least one Nebraska game. The classes between 2020 and 2027 will have the experience of a home game. That's huge considering that the classes of 2015-2018 (which includes me) missed out on the rivalry completely, and the classes between 2014 and 2019 will miss seeing a CU/Nebraska game in Folsom.
 
I watched the Nebraska game with two 22 year olds who graduated from CU a few months ago. They went to lots of games (my daughter was on the field plenty of times as a member of the Dance Team and flew on the team plane to some away games), but neither of them had any idea about a Nebraska rivalry. They do now. Next season's game will be great.
 
Both my kids are very recent CU grads. They grew up in a house that has no red, (except for the Badger stuff my transplant wife brought from Wisconsin). My daughter jokes that instead of praying before meals, we sang the CU fight song. They knew that I hate NU, but being able to actually watch the game triggered something within them and now they have the same hatred for NU that I do.

I echo those here who say that I hope CSU loses only one game a year, and that is to CU. I hope NU loses every game they play, for all time. I just pray for the children, wives and pets of the NU fans that get kicked when NU loses and their delusional fans take out their frustrations inappropriately.
 
buffedup said:
It is actually very cool that a single game against the Nubs has completely restored the rivalry. The hate is so natural, and everyone can feel it.
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To be fair, it was the perfect game for it. Trash talking nubs, dirty plays, late comeback to steal their souls ..
 
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