It used to be when you went to a Nebraska football game, the biggest decision that day was when we planned to leave the game. It was a given that Nebraska was going to win except maybe when we played Oklahoma and possibly when we played Colorado or Missouri. But we pretty much won just about every game by a large margin. Now that has changed. You just can't be sure that we will win and that, for this writer, makes every game exciting.
The Texas Tech was such a surprise!! We watched the game in New York City at the Irish Rogue bar. It was full of Nebraskans. It was a very excited group and the cheering was loud!! This bar is only about four blocks from Good Morning America and it has every Nebraska game on TV. There are a lot of very faithful NU fans in New York. We sat by actress Merle Dandridge (lead in Spamalot) who was from Bellevue and Kim Miller an attorney from New York who was originally from Omaha. The game was so fun because who would have guessed we should have won the game against one of the Top Ten teams AND the game was in Lubbock!! It was disappointing to lose but you kind of knew that Nebraska was on its way back.
The best and most exciting game for this writer was the Colorado game. We were beat!! There was no way on fourth and 25 NU could get a first down. And we didn't because Alex Henery kicks a huge FG and puts NU ahead. The crowd was wild and people were falling all over the place. What a great feeling. A game that gave you chills!!
The worst game to watch this year was the Missouri game. Nothing much to be said but NU just got beat in every phase of the game. Missouri peaked that day because they have been average since then. But who wants to talk about the worst of anything.
The best NU basketball game so far this season has been the Creighton game. NU pulled that out at the end. NU just hasn't had much of a home schedule to get too excited so far. Hopefully they can pull off an upset or two during the Big 12 part of the season. Leave it to Doc Sadler to do it.
The women's volleyball team was so much fun to watch in the tournament it gave you chills. Congratulations on playing so well when we really didn't expect it.
You can see this writer likes to see close games with NU winning at the end. That makes it so much fun!!
My best TV shows this season are "Boston Legal" and "The Office". Boston Legal was such a blast to watch. Can you imagine the fun the writers had coming up with some of the story lines. It was hilarious!! This writer will really miss that show. I will miss "Denny Crane". The Office is just so funny. If you haven't seen it, give it a chance. You will enjoy it. Dwight is so bad, he is good. Michael is, well, so much like but yet unlike your boss at work.
My best movie of the year was "The Bucket List". This writer cried watching it. I suppose that it reminded me a little of losing my dad two years ago. The Bucket List will go into my top ten of all time list in movies. Juno and Charlie Wilson's War were pretty good also.
My best book was 90 Minutes in Heaven. It is a book that you will think about for the rest of your life. It is inspiring. Jason Peter's book "Hero of the Underground" was also interesting. It is just so hard to see a person can get so hooked on drugs and let it control you to that extent. It is a must read but it has a lot of bad language. "Boom" by Tom Brokaw was very educational and fun to read. It is about 650 pages long, but well worth it.
Best song of 2008 features former Huskers Joe Chrisman and Bret Lindstrom.
What is your top movie, TV show, and book for 2008?? Share it with us!!
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Good idea. I am going to do a "book end" segment in a few days announcing my top books. But, I have to say, that the top book I have read this year, hands down, is The Galloping Ghost by Gary Andrew Poole. Great read and very helpful to understand football in the 20s and 30s. I really need to think about the movies.
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