Tales from the Heart of Huskerland

Walk into almost every sports field or arena and you'll see it. Banners hanging from a railing. Maybe it's a tarp stretched over a fence or numbers cut into bricks, but there's always a wall of some kind littered with numbers and years. Championships, conference titles, playoff appearances. Walk into any arena, find this wall and you instantly know everything you need to know about the history of that team. The era's of dominance, the droughts, even the "alright" years. Say you walk into the gym of a high school basketball team you've never heard of. A quick glance at this wall shows you they won state 4 times in the 70s. Then the next one isn't until 2002. The other sections tell you they won a few conference titles in the 80s & made the playoffs regularly. There was a drop-off, but they were doing alright. But then there's a huge void where the 90s should be. Nothing until that 2002 season. What you have is a snapshot of that team...