Just when you thought it was safe to assume the Huskers had stopped finding new and cruelly inventive ways to lose, the Big Red laid their biggest egg of the year with a mind boggling 28-30 loss to Northwestern.
The game summed up in two gifs.
Hans Moleman does his impression of any Husker receiver trying to catch a pass.
The speed at which unbearable anguish turns grudging acceptance of one’s fate is incredible.
Mike Riley’s Balloon Watch: Mike’s balloon is now a flaming pile of monkey poo ready to explode.
In case you didn’t notice, Back to the Future was in the news a little bit this week for some reason or another. One of the signature gags in the 2015 Marty visited in Back to the Future II, was that the Jaws franchise had worked its way up to a 19th installment.
As someone who saw BTTF2 in the theatre back in 1989, I can say with good authority that it was a legitimately funny moment because just two years earlier, Jaws: The Revenge delivered the franchise down to Davy Jones Locker and the thought of 15 more Jaws movies was even more preposterous than the idea of the Cubs eventually winning another World Series.
Should the time ever come where Universal gets bored with making Fast and Furious movies and decides to dust off Jaws, they could pick no better team to write films 5-19 than Mike Riley and his coaching staff. In the span of just eight games, they have shown they are the absolute masters of finding new ways to terrify an audience week in and week out.
It’s still too early to give up on these guys but you’d think that after eight games they’d start correcting the problems (pick a problem, any problem) that have been there since the season opener.
NUMBERS TO DEPRESS YOUR FRIENDS WITH
30: More plays the Huskers ran than Northwestern.
21: Jordan Stevenson‘s longest kick return of the day and career so far. His still smoldering red shirt is not going to waste.
18:04: The Huskers’ time of possession advantage over Northwestern.
10.04: How many seconds it took for Northwestern quarterback Clayton Thorson to sputter 68 yards in the first quarter. By comparison, Taylor Martinez‘s 92 yard touchdown run at UCLA in 2012 took 10.92 seconds and he coasted the last 20 yards.
10: The number of different Huskers who, believe it or not, actually caught a pass.
7: The 1995 Huskers’ average yards per run.
6.06: The 2015 Huskers’ average yards per pass with the 1995 squad in attendance.
2: Number of times Andy Janovich carried the ball for a total of for yards.
0: Number of times Devine Ozigbo, aka the running back of the future three weeks ago, carried the ball for a total of 0 yards.
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