For The Nebraska News Update Keep up to date with Nebraska news delivered to you via email. Football reflects certain primal urges in men that go all the way back to when they lived in caves. In those days a bunch of guys who formed a tribe might wander into some other guys' territory and then decide on a plan.
Football still has a lot of that attitude in it.
The first victory wasn't on the field. It was claimed by the Big Red legion - those thousands upon thousands upon thousands of Nebraskans who went to South Bend without tickets to the game. That is, they got them from Notre Dame fans who took the money, right there under the eyes of Touchdown Jesus and the Golden Dome, and thus opened the gates of their hallowed gridiron home to the Big Red horde from the West. Thus, when the Huskers took the field, they were not alone. Veteran Notre Dame watchers said they had never seen so much opposing-team color in the stands.