Huskers Fall, But Fight the Good Fight

Nebraska’s Cornhusker Football team, led by Head Coach Scott Frost and Athletic Director Bill Moos, tried their best, but were ultimately shut down by the Big 10 and have “postponed” the football season until at least the Spring of 2021.

Nebraska had entertained the notion of playing non-conference opponents, but again the Big 10 quashed the idea, and demanded the sports schedule be entirely “locked down.”

This overreaction to a strain of flu that is far less deadly than advertised is doing incredible damage to the health, finances and mental well-being of millions of Americans. The public is being told there’s been nearly 200,000 deaths from COVID-19 since the start of the “pandemic,” while certain news and social media organizations furiously censor information that challenges the pre-fabricated death-toll narrative, while discrediting cheap, effective and time-tested treatment regimens.

Some have speculated that Nebraska’s public position to play the schedule was a ploy to distract from an underachieving program, or a scheme to test the waters of a return to the Big 12. But perhaps Nebraska’s position was just based on plain old common sense.

A look at the estimated impact on Nebraska’s economy just from cancelling the Husker’s Football games shows some shocking numbers. Officials estimate at least a $100 million dollar loss to the Nebraska University system, as the Football Program brings in nearly $12 million per home game, and that’s not even counting television revenues. The loss of the football home games will level a $300 million dollar direct hit to the Lincoln economy; all over a disease that keeps getting less and less deadly. No matter how much Google, Facebook and Twitter censor information, people are still finding out that COVID-19 has a 99+ percent survival rate, and that the countries and states that didn’t “lock down” survived nicely without the devastating economic impacts.

Now the parents of Big 10 athletes are getting starting to get involved. Perhaps witnessing their children go through years of training, practices and hard work to be able to perform at the highest levels in collegiate sports only to have it taken all away, is causing some anger. And they do notice that those doing the taking away, are themselves personally losing nothing. A letter penned to Big 10 officials on Sunday by Nebraska Football parents challenged their ruling on the postponed season. Glen Snodgrass, father of Husker linebacker Garrett Snodgrass, hit the nail on the head by saying, “Transparency has been a major issue for me. If there is data out there that is truly not in a safe place right now, by all means, let’s close it down. But they haven’t come out with any of that and maybe it’s out there, but as far as I know I haven’t heard anything.”

He ‘s absolutely right. If the danger of this disease was a great as advertised, we’d all know it. But most people are starting to catch on that there’s something not right about all of these “responses”. Let’s face it, the biggest danger in going to a Huskers game is (still) the drive home around other motorists who may have chugged a few too many beers in the cheap seats. And, let’s not even acknowledge the lack of deaths in areas where people have been routinely taking a certain anti-malarial drug that shall not be named for many decades. With that being said, expect another panic later this month over “increased cases” after the Sturgis Rally is over. Yet, nothing will be said about tens of thousands of people gathering every night burning down major cities. At least they’re wearing handkerchiefs over their faces.

The Huskers may have lost their fight to have a season, but it was a battle well worth fighting. The lockdown madness has to end.