The Huskers will celebrate their 300th consecutive sell out of Memorial Stadium on 9/26 against Louisiana Lafayette. To commemorate that fact, Nebraska will play that game in throw back uniforms which will then be sold at auction.
The consecutive sell out streak began during the 1962 season. Lyle Sittler played Center on the ’62 squad under Bob Devaney. 47 years later, the Crete resident put his finger on something incredibly important.
In a non-embeddable video on Huskers.com, Sittler says about this year’s team:
“The players, as we watched them this morning, they have just a little bit extra pride that wasn’t there a year or two years ago. They’re dealing with one another and making sure that they are Nebraska.”
Making sure that they are Nebraska. Man, I love that. And that’s going to mean good things on the field this fall and every fall for a long time to come.
