Don't Forget Your Power Towel

Well well well...the Daily Opinion took a week off with the Huskers last week, mainly to sleep off the hangover of the ugly 17-3 win over SDSU. Sorry! aren't I allowed a break too? I sincerely apologize to all the readers and will catch us all back up to speed.

The Huskers are now 4-0 entering conference play. This week they have a road test with our neighbors to the south in the Kansas State Mildcats. The mildcats led by their fearless geriatric coach Bill Snyder will surely be amped up for what most likely will be their last shot in a long time to upend the real kings of the Big XII north. Kansas State enters this matchup also 4-0 and excited to host a Thursday night ESPN nationally televised game. They can be excited all they want because let's be honest, without the Huskers, ESPN wouldn't even know where Manhattan Kansas was located. They will soon realize this (as well as the rest of the Big XII North) fact once they no longer have the Husker faithful filling up their stadium every other year. So come on everyone, let them have their fun while it lasts and let them soak up all the coverage they can while they can still benefit by being associated with an elite program. Kinda like that ugly, bigfoot-looking Kardashian girl does with her hot sister Kim.

Anyone ever wonder why Kansas State decided to name their Stadium Bill Snyder Family Stadium? Me neither. But really could they have picked a worse, less intimidating name for a stadium? Its kinda like naming your son milton, I'm sorry to all the Miltons out there, but you're not going to intimidate anyone. And before and K State fans take a shot at Memorial Stadium, it was built to acknowledge the veterans of past, present, and future wars, so if you don't like the name, you don't like the veterans and thats just wrong. Take that hippy thought to Boulder. Oh yeah, and don't forget your Power Towel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A-05wPlQQ40)

While were on the topic of power towels and other K State failures. Why is Willie the Wildcat a half-cat, half-man hybrid? I know that K State is a agricultural school and somewhere down there I'm sure that there is a livestock breeding program, doesn't this mascot open the doors for all sorts of inter species breeding jokes? I always knew those people were pussys. Atleast they are wearing the right color...

Here's some trivia for you. Name the only school the the Big 12 conference that has NEVER won a National Championship in ANYTHING. I'll give you some time...Did you guess it? It's not Baylor, or Iowa State,...Thats right. It's K State. For being the fourth oldest Big 12 institution, you would think that they could have added atleast one. Even if it's in women's bowling.....oh,...wait...Nebraska's good at that too. But I'm sure they have a better in-conference reputation right? Well, I'm afraid not. They are barely edging out Missouri for the fewest conference title's by a 7-6 margin. This purple color is looking more and more fitting...

After those stats, what can we really talk about? Rich tradition? Talented athletes? unfortunately no. While the SDSU game was a hard one to swallow, historically, Pelini does well with extra time to prepare. Look for the blackshirts to have addressed the problems we all witnessed and shut down Kansas States talented runningback. Look for Nebraska to run up the score early to force KSU to throw the ball, which has not ended up good for any of the Husker opponents this year. If KSU is able to hold the Husker offense to minimal points while chewing clock with their run game, the Huskers may be in trouble, but look for the Huskers to come out 5-0, and the Mildcats to,...well...fall back into their place.

I'm sorry KSU if I was a little harsh on you this week. Keep your heads up. Your university produced the talented Kirstie Alley, and activist Erin Brokovich. But here's the kicker, you also produced DeLoss Dodds, current Athletic Director of the University of Texas. Screw. You.

Here's to Nebraska beginning their farewell tour in the Little Apple with a win over KSU. After the game be sure to head to Aggieville for some of the best fun in a college town you can have. There's a bar there that serves a drink called a fish tank, and unlike Duffy's in Lincoln where your drink comes in a little fish bowl, these drinks are literally served in fish TANKS. Look! I found one thing they can claim superiority to!

One last note, any fanbase that celebrates every first down, doesn't deserve to be on television, so let's hope the blackshirts can help them out with proper primetime etiquette. We all get it, that was "another K STATE first down!" That's what happens when you get 10 yards....