MY CART SUPPORT HOME STORIES GALLERIES PRESS SHOP ABOUT US CONTACT Story #26: Huskers, Eh! WEDNESDAY, 31 JULY 2013 BY RYANKTWEEDY@GMAIL.COM Evan: I came across the film you are making and thought my friends and I might be able to contribute an interesting angle to the “Through These Gates” production. My friends and I drive over 1100 miles each year from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada in a school bus to attend the Husker home opener at the end of August. This will be our third year doing the trip. We are all born and raised in Canada and never attended the University of Nebraska yet absolutely love making the trip down for the game and joining in the Husker festivities. We all own a variety of Husker fan gear and even painted our Bus’s hood with the Nebraska colors last year. We love the atmosphere and comradery that is present on game day throughout Lincoln and it reminds us of the pride we take in our own home football team, the Saskatchewan Roughriders. I find that Nebraska is similar to Saskatchewan in a number of ways. We are both western prairie states (province in our case) and have a strong agricultural economy with a passion for football. The people in Nebraska also share the same welcoming, small town pleasantness that Saskatchewan has. A lot of people up here don’t understand why we would drive so far to go to “Nebraska of all places”… but game day in Lincoln really is something that has to be experienced to be understood. Anyways, good luck with your movie, saw the trailer and it looks great. GO BIG RED! CANADACANADIAN FOOTBALLCANADIANS FOR NEBRASKANEBRASKA CORNHUSKERSSEA OF RED READ MORE PUBLISHED IN FAN PERSPECTIVE NO COMMENTS FOLLOW US! Follow @thruthesegates Tags 'skers 1994 National Championship Andy Hoffman Big Red Nation Bob Devaney Broken Leg Canada canadian football Canadians for Nebraska cheering for nebraska college football cornhuskers corn nation Dave Humm Devaney Center devaney years fans football Go Big Red husker fan husker fans husker football husker honeymoon Huskers Jason peter Larry the Cable Guy Lincoln memorial stadium music Nebraska Nebraska Cornhuskers Nebraska football nice fans Nic Ehrisman open letter Orange Bowl Sea of Red Team Jack the game of football The Good Life There's No Place Like Nebraska through these gates Tom Osborne touchdown tommie frazier tradition GET SOCIAL © 2013 Copyright by FIC Productions. All rights reserved.