When you have a broken jaw and 8,754 injuries and your coach calls ‘qb keep’ every other play when the defense knows it you start to use the last bit of your functioning brain to realize that a year someplace else is a couple years before the cte really kicks in.
The homeboard posts over this must be tremendous. https://news.sportslogos.net/2022/0...id-alleged-white-supremacist-gesture/college/ Nebraska Cornhuskers Update Logo To Avoid Alleged White Supremacist Gesture Friday, January 28, 20223 min readAndrew Lind The Nebraska Cornhuskers have made a slight alteration the logo of their beloved mascot, Herbie Husker, changing the “OK” gesture he was making with his left hand to one that insinuates they are “No. 1” to avoid comparisons to white supremacy. Herbie Husker was created by Lubbock, Texas, newspaper cartoonist Dick West for the cover of Nebraska’s 1974 media guide, a season that ended with a 19-3 Cotton Bowl win over Texas. He depicts a blonde-haired, blue-eyed farmer wearing blue overalls with an ear of corn in his pocket and a big red cowboy hat on his head. He is holding a football in his right arm and making an “OK” gesture with his left hand – a gesture that commonly viewed as a way to indicate that “all is well” but has recently been classified as a symbol of hate. Some claim the three upheld finger resemble a “W” while the circle and forearm resemble a “P,” together standing for “White Power.” This was brought to the attention of Nebraska’s director of licensing Lonna Henrichs in the wake of George Floyd’s death, and she quickly asked the Cornhuskers’ in-house design team to Photoshop Herbie Husker’s hand to have one finger pointed in the air to match the logo for his counterpart, Lil’ Red. “That hand gesture could, in some circles, represent something that does not represent what Nebraska athletics is about,” Henrichs told the Omaha World-Herald. “We just didn’t even want to be associated with portraying anything that somebody might think … means white power.” This isn’t the first time that Nebraska has changed Herbie Husker’s look, as he received a full-body makeover in 2003 that traded his overalls for a red polo and blue jeans. However, was phased out by the end of the decade thanks to nostalgia for the vintage mark. The update Herbie Husker does not appear in the Cornhuskers’ brand guidelines at the moment, but it will be the only logo approved for merchandise moving forward. “When there is hatred and hurt attached to a symbol, or a word, or a gesture, we have to pay attention to it,” associate athletic director of diversity, equality and inclusion Dr. Lawrence Chatters told the Flatwater Free Press. “We don’t have the choice to just say, ‘Well, that’s not what you think it is.” “Truthfully, those groups do exist. Truthfully, those are movements that have caused issues in our country. We’re not talking about a false reality here.” Photos courtesy of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and @college_logos on Twitter.
This husk approves but I'm also a limpwristed pinko lib who should never be welcomed back to the state
smh at Nebraska trying to cover up Herbie Husker's long-standing ties to the white nationalism movement
This is the quintessential liberal act. Empty pandering gesture that benefits nobody but lets the libs jerk off over how virtuous they are.
You would think our fans wouldn’t be mad at this. We upgraded the ‘ok’ sign to ‘we are number 1.’ These fuckers should love that fact we are trying to hoodwink everybody because hoods are much more obvious than the ok sign.
Reads statement and thinks that's a good statement Knows some will be pissed about it wo acknowledgment that it is addressing an issue
fwiw, it’s probably the smartest thing our athletic department has done in 20+ years while also being on brand with a total disappointment to a majority of our fanbase sighhhhhhhhh
Which finger is he holding up? Which finger is he touching with his thumb? Of the remaining fingers, how many are up and/or touched? Hold your left hand like his, but facing yourself so it looks the same as on your screen. How many fingers are up? remaining fingers untouched? Now rotate your wrist 90 degrees.
Good idea, but the only way back to the top is totaland complete soul sale. Whatever scraps of NU's soul Thom didn't already fork over to the 'vil needs to be wrapped up and pitched out front like a Burlington Coat Factory sidewalk sale. We don't need Coors Light and single serving Sutterhome bottles in the stadium. We need hard liquor, tobacco sales and slot machines. We don't need IG models. We need Tori Black We don't need local grocery store NIL contracts. We need the bloodiest fucking cash deals Monsanto and DeBeers can offer.
Ahaha I forgot that the analyst that Scoot Farts got in trouble for was the Special Teams guy. Glad that guys message got across to the squad.