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Are the Sears Cups at Risk? - BigEasyCard - 10-17-2018
The award was known as the Sears Cup through about 2003.
After reading the following this morning, might we soon have some empty spots in the trophy case:
https://www.goiowaawesome.com/batshit-insanity/2018/10/3209/breaking-news-bankruptcy-court-seizes-nebraskas-national-championship-trophies
Geaux Cardinal!
RE: Are the Sears Cups at Risk? - OutsiderFan - 10-17-2018
(10-17-2018, 10:22 AM)BigEasyCard Wrote: The award was known as the Sears Cup through about 2003.
After reading the following this morning, might we soon have some empty spots in the trophy case:
https://www.goiowaawesome.com/batshit-insanity/2018/10/3209/breaking-news-bankruptcy-court-seizes-nebraskas-national-championship-trophies
Geaux Cardinal!
This seems like an Onion story.
RE: Are the Sears Cups at Risk? - Redrum - 10-17-2018
Sweet! Had me going for a while. Gotta love the impulse (and follow-through) that produces these.
RE: Are the Sears Cups at Risk? - BostonCard - 10-17-2018
Ouch. That was brutal...
Quote:Needless to say, Nebraska was not going to let federal agents take their beloved trophies without a fight. Upon hearing of the court's action, head coach Scott Frost and defensive coordinator Erik Chinander deployed the entire Blackshirts defense to stop the marshals from seizing the crystal footballs.
Unfortunately for Nebraska, one marshal ran to the right, prompting all eleven defenders to follow him. While the entire defense was doing that arm-crossing throw-the-bones thing in celebration of catching the decoy marshal, the ten other agents took the trophies without being touched.
BC
RE: Are the Sears Cups at Risk? - cardcrimson - 10-17-2018
(10-17-2018, 10:22 AM)BigEasyCard Wrote: The award was known as the Sears Cup through about 2003.Now that was a funny article. . . .
After reading the following this morning, might we soon have some empty spots in the trophy case:
https://www.goiowaawesome.com/batshit-insanity/2018/10/3209/breaking-news-bankruptcy-court-seizes-nebraskas-national-championship-trophies
Geaux Cardinal!
Reminiscent of a DailyCal I read years ago. . . .
RE: Are the Sears Cups at Risk? - Spiny_Norman - 10-17-2018
I liked this especially. The best satire is grounded in a painful truth.
Quote:The iconic trophies — which the once-vaunted Cornhuskers won while flouting minimum academic standards, complaints from local residents, and the Nebraska Criminal Code in the mid-1990s — were the last thing mentioned in literally every argument about Nebraska football in the last 20 years. They have become so integral to the regular Nebraskan's way of life that the program's fans fired both the former head coach and athletic director, just to throw $35 million at a coach who can't beat Northwestern or Troy but was in the general proximity of the trophies during his early 20s.
RE: Are the Sears Cups at Risk? - Austroturf - 10-17-2018
Brilliant satire. Loved the absurdity of it.
RE: Are the Sears Cups at Risk? - Phogge - 10-17-2018
Going to miss Sears. My Craftsman mower is going on it’s twelfth year. Some products ok but not their chainsaws. Stihl much better. Still have my Ted Williams fly rod.