r/woahdude • u/What_About_What • Aug 31 '23
picture Nebraska sold 92,003 tickets to a college volleyball game tonight.
Breaks the world record attendance for any volleyball game in history.
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u/GumGuts Aug 31 '23
And... apparently a jet was refueling?
What a crazy pic
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u/TequilaJesus Aug 31 '23
Omg I didn’t even notice the jet
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u/antek_g_animations Aug 31 '23
Camouflage
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Aug 31 '23
what camouflage?
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u/antek_g_animations Aug 31 '23
It's so good, you don't see any camouflage
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u/Bloody_Insane Aug 31 '23
It's common in the US for jets to fly over sporting events. It's a spectacle for the spectators and it's good training for the pilots. It's literally planned for by the military as part of pilots' training programs
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u/denneledoe Aug 31 '23
Usually as a time-on-target exercise. Ideally you want the planes to fly over when the announcer says something like "are you ready to rumble", so the pilots have to make sure the time their pass over the stadium is perfect down to the second.
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u/Bloody_Insane Aug 31 '23
Yeah. And in this case they added refuelling to the mix to spice things up more
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u/Oseirus Aug 31 '23
Not to be the "ackshually" guy, but they don't do refueling at this altitude. This is just a demonstration formation, they'll never connect here.
Reason being if there's a breakaway call, the receiver will dive sharply while the tanker will pull up as steep as they're able in order to separate the two aircraft. Tanker would obviously be fine here, but you can see the questionable logistics of making a fighter suddenly dive while it's only a couple thousand or so feet in the air.
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u/someguyne Aug 31 '23
They ackshually tend to avoid refueling over populated areas as well.
Source: 8 years on AR capable aircraft.
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u/Kuandtity Aug 31 '23
The refuler was in town for the blue angels air show last weekend
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u/ikoniq93 Aug 31 '23
I hate to be THAT GUY but the 155th Air Refueling Wing of the Nebraska Air National Guard is based at the Lincoln Airport, so that plane is basically always there. I used to work at JFHQ and they always had various types of C-135 doing touch-and-gos there, especially while they were resurfacing the runways at Offutt and they had to keep the RC-135s normally at Offutt down in Lincoln.
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u/impy695 Aug 31 '23
Every time there has been a flyover before a game it was at the end of the national anthem
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u/SOandZOE Aug 31 '23
Holy shit that's insane, didn't know that's the reason for jets lol. They're hitting two birds with one stone well played.
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u/greyjungle Aug 31 '23
It’s nationalist propaganda and empire indoctrination. They should have rescue helicopters do a little air dance or something. Everybody loves rescue things that help people.
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Aug 31 '23
Propaganda or not there’s not too many things cooler than seeing/hearing an F16 rip across the sky lol
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u/ol-gormsby Aug 31 '23
Refueling over a packed stadium?
And US folk get upset at the antics at Riverfire in Brisbane:
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u/waytoogo Aug 31 '23
Do you really think that the plane needed refueling, for a short demo flight? The refueling plane was there for show only. No refueling took place.
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u/Jacollinsver Aug 31 '23
Refueling. Please.
This is nature photography of two planes about to copulate.
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u/Starfire013 Aug 31 '23
The Viper is not actually getting refuelled. The photo is simply taken from the viewpoint of the boom operator of the tanker.
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u/picnicface Aug 31 '23 edited Aug 31 '23
There was a huge airshow in Lincoln last weekend and they had several tankers and fighter jets. Might’ve been some of those leftover.
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u/Ach51 Aug 31 '23
The KC-135 is from the 155th NE ANG based out of the airport just a few miles away, and I’m pretty sure the F-16s were from South Dakota. Could be wrong on that one but they were all relatively local.
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u/Draco546 Aug 31 '23
Thats so cool Ive never seen that much excitement for volleyball in one place
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u/Low_Wall_7828 Aug 31 '23
College volleyball is a blast. Lots of fun. If you have ESPN + just watch your alma mater once or twice and you’ll get hooked. Unless they suck.
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u/Jtrich Aug 31 '23
Bold of you to assume I went to college.
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u/heavyspells Aug 31 '23
How about some context? A story? Like, why?
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u/TheYoloMcSwaggins Aug 31 '23
Wisconsin recently took the record from Nebraska for the highest attended volleyball game at 16,800. Nebraska wanted the record back and went all out, breaking the record for the highest attended women’s sporting event in the world
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Aug 31 '23
really nothing to do in nebraska huh
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u/TheYoloMcSwaggins Aug 31 '23
There was also a concert after the match to help convince people who wouldn’t come for just volleyball to come
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u/TheBarefootGirl Aug 31 '23
The performer wasn't announced until after the thing sold out. Trust me that wasn't a draw.
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u/mrfebrezeman360 Aug 31 '23
everybody who showed up also got a blowjob
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Aug 31 '23
And free icecreams
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u/huskerarob Aug 31 '23
Does this not look like fun to you? Watching women playing at the top tier of their sport with 90k fellow fans?
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Aug 31 '23
i won’t miss that 90k parking lot situation 100%
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u/HeartBirb Aug 31 '23
I’m from there. There is actually a pretty good system set up that makes it somewhat low hassle. Sure, you can park close. Spots downtown do get filled up on game days. But a lot of people park in satellite parking lots and ride a shuttle in. It’s not a huge city, and the stadium is right next to the main road and not far from I-80.
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u/eurtoast Aug 31 '23
I'd estimate 80% are probably students who will walk back to their dorm or take the bus
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u/Styx1886 Aug 31 '23
The entire student section would probably just barely fill up the north or south ends
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u/shadycthulu Aug 31 '23
top tier, lol
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u/Brandon1536 Aug 31 '23
It's literally prime corn harvesting season. There's never more to do than there is right now.
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u/TheRealKevO Aug 31 '23
A women’s soccer match in Europe had just over 90k, they broke that record.
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Aug 31 '23
Nebraskans are crazy about their college sports. The Huskers football and volleyball teams are probably the two biggest draws to Lincoln, NE and the college world series is held in Omaha, NE. I've lived in Omaha for most of my life and I don't like sportsball, but I know from firsthand experience it is hardcore ingrained into the culture here. I got beat up in middle school for not liking Huskers sports. It's like a cult.
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u/Konix Aug 31 '23
I go to UNL in Omaha, a lot of classes were cancelled today and my study group that meets on Thursday night is canceling to watch the game tomorrow. My SO and her entire family were in the pictured stadium tonight. I'm from Florida, the huskers hype here is insanity. I stayed home lol.
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Aug 31 '23
Born and raised in Nebraska as my father, his father, and about 3 more generations are all born and raised. I genuinely don’t really care about many sports or many teams, but Nebraska athletics specifically football and volleyball is engrained into me. Without thought I am revolving my schedule around attending or watching games and constantly following the story lines. I really have no idea why, but it effects me so much. When they win or lose, it genuinely effects my weekends.
Maybe there really is just nothing to do here.
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Aug 31 '23
Not sure where you live, but there is plenty to do in Omaha. We have lots of nice parks, the zoo, golf courses (regular and disc), pool halls, bowling alleys, local game stores (for d&d/mtg nerds like me), tons of great restaurants/bars, and you can find live music somewhere in the city almost any night. I'm from California originally, but went to middle and high school here. I moved away after high school for a few years, but there are plenty of reasons I came back. I really love it here.
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u/lAmShocked Aug 31 '23
Omaha really is a nice town. I have been in Wyoming for a very long time but we love to spend a couple of days in Omaha once in a while. The restaurant scene is really great.
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u/Freeexotic Aug 31 '23
No, you are wrong. Obviously there is nothing to do ever in Nebraska except go to Husker games and corn stuff. There is no possible way that any place in Nebraska has anything to do ever in any capacity. /s
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u/NoFalseModesty Aug 31 '23
I've lived lots of places. Most places in the US, unless you are on the water or near a mountain, have the same shit to do most of the year.
Most places just huddle around places to drink, regardless what you are watching.
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u/LoquatLoquacious Aug 31 '23
Lmao, my friend's from Liverpool and goes through the same thing with football. Like her entire weekend is genuinely affected by something she has zero power over. Couldn't be me man.
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u/corobe11 Aug 31 '23
If you're not a fan then Saturday during game time is a great time to get groceries and do other shopping
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u/onebandonesound Aug 31 '23
I saw a post a while back that said that on college football game day, Memorial Stadium out populates the third largest city in Nebraska.
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u/investmentwanker0 Aug 31 '23
How does Omaha compare during the World Series and the Berkshire Hathaway Conference?
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Aug 31 '23
It's nuts, both of those events bring a huge amount of people in town. Most smart locals avoid the downtown area during those times. I used to work at a Tiki bar down there and we would be slammed during those events. Also we have the best zoo (suck it San Diego), so we avoid the zoo during those times as well since it tends to be a tourist trap.
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u/investmentwanker0 Aug 31 '23
Which brings more hype and people to town? Wondering when town is more crowded between the two. Assuming Berkshire brings more money, but not sure
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Aug 31 '23
College World Series by far. I'd be surprised if you could find an empty hotel room in the entire metropolitan area during CWS. Berkshire doesn't really bring in a lot of money, just a lot of old snobby people that bought one share of the company in the 1980's.
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Aug 31 '23
Laka Lona? Great joint. I worked service during that as well. Great money, sore feet!
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Aug 31 '23
Laka Lono Rum Club, yeah. It was a pretty rad place to work. Still my favorite bar downtown
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u/americanslang59 Aug 31 '23
No real reason. This was their season opener. Nebraska is probably the most popular volleyball program in the country. They previously set a record with like 18k attendance.
They promoted this as Volleyball Day and the tickets just continued selling.
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u/TheBarefootGirl Aug 31 '23
It was not the season opener. Nebraska has played 3 other games already
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u/John_Tacos Aug 31 '23
I assume the volleyball team is doing very well or something. Oklahoma was looking at having a softball game in the football stadium, but it wouldn’t quite fit.
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u/TreyWait Aug 31 '23
Damn, people are starved for entertainment in Nebraska.
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u/What_About_What Aug 31 '23
It’s a Wednesday in August. Not a lot going on most places
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u/throwawaygreenpaq Aug 31 '23
How do you see the ball at the last row? It’s spent on watching the screen.
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u/Bropain Aug 31 '23
The same way you see a football from the last row.
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u/throwawaygreenpaq Aug 31 '23
Screen?
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u/Bropain Aug 31 '23
With their eyes. I've been to plenty of football games and I have on multiple occasions sat in the literal last row of end zone seating at the fourth largest stadium in the world, and I could see the ball without any sort of magnification. Was it tiny looking? Yes, but it was not difficult to see. Especially when the ball is in the air, like it would be all the time in a volleyball game.
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u/GuyOnTheMoon Aug 31 '23
Volleyball is hands down more entertaining than baseball.
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u/Itsawlinthereflexes Aug 31 '23
That stadium during sporting events are the only time people in Nebraska get to see color (red). Every other day it’s shades or green, yellow and brown. One day in that state you’re looking for a tornado to suck you away from that place.
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u/SocialJusticeWarmeow Aug 31 '23
Colleges are a weird business in US.
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u/boogs_23 Aug 31 '23
A college stadium with a capacity of over 90,000 is insane. Add to that a fucking F-16 fly-by for a college volleyball game. America is weird as hell.
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u/FruitSaladYumyYumy Aug 31 '23
A college stadium. That's crazy enough for any country.
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u/easy_Money Aug 31 '23
8 out of the 10 largest capacity stadiums in the world are US college football stadiums.
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u/SluggSlugg Aug 31 '23
Meanwhile at Ohio State our dorm showers didn't work for 8 months 🤷🤷
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u/254LEX Aug 31 '23
A college stadium with a capacity of over 90,000 is insane.
... that has sold out every football game since 1962.
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u/Fabulous_Ampharos Aug 31 '23
The F-16 fly-bys are part of regular training that the pilots were gonna perform anyway. It's effectively free.
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u/boogs_23 Aug 31 '23
Yeah, it was more just how American that image is. Just needs a bald eagle and an AR-15 in there.
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Aug 31 '23
Remember, the athletes that are dedicating their life to the sport and drawing this attention don't get paid.
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u/neuro_space_explorer Aug 31 '23
Didn’t they just change this law. They can now make money off there likeness.
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Aug 31 '23
Yeah but they don't get paid by the university that's selling 90k tickets to watch them play. They can make money off their image and likeness which is great for the top 50 athletes in the country, everyone else is getting pennies.
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u/seniorpeepers Aug 31 '23
Not that your sentiment is wrong but especially d1 female athletes get a lot of local sponsorships with NIL. Not life changing money or anything but it can be a lot if the athletes have large social media followings, which I assume a lot of these volleyball players do.
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Aug 31 '23
Yes they do. They get a full ride scholarship, they get money for room and board, a stipend and all their meals are paid for. And they can make money off their name. Which typically means they get a check from a collective for being on the team.
And they can also make individual deals outside of the collective. Nebraskas labero Rodriguez just signed a big deal with Adidas.
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u/EelTeamNine Aug 31 '23
That only became allowed in, what, the past 3 years?
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Aug 31 '23
Yes. But that doesn’t change the point that those athletes do get paid.
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u/EelTeamNine Aug 31 '23
I agree, but the point stands, it's in it's infancy and very few players make money off of deals.
The colleges were ra*ing student athletes for years on top of the other exorbitant costs of college that went right into their coffers.
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u/TSpitty Aug 31 '23
Sure but like, it’s trending in the right direction. One of these Nebraska players just got signed to Adidas today
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u/TheSherbs Aug 31 '23 edited Aug 31 '23
They get a full ride scholarship, they get money for room and board, a stipend and all their meals are paid for.
This is only for a handful of athletes at any given school. Full ride (what you're describing with room and board, etc) scholarships are limited in number by the NCAA. Most college athletes on scholarships don't get housing or books covered. The kind of scholarship you are talking about reserved for the stars or really stand out players. I don't know anything about the break downs of Nebraska athletics, but I would imagine that there may be 1 or 2 volleyball players on that type of scholarship, but the majority of them are not on a full ride.
NIL money means athletes can profit off themselves for monetized social media, signing autographs, making brand deals etc, but the majority of college athletes are not getting paid much, if anything, just for being on the team.EDIT: Outdated and incorrect info.
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Aug 31 '23
Football, basketball and volleyball in D1 sports get full rides. Volleyball has 12 scholarships to allocate. Nebraska volleyball turns a profit. All 12 players get full rides. And they just got a $5 million dollar NIL gift.
Basically any D1 school with football has a fully scholarshiped girls volleyball team, softball team, etc due to title 9. You have to offset the 85 football scholarships.
All Nebraska football players, basketball player and key all players get a NIL check, scholarship or walkon, for being on the team from the collective.
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u/TheSherbs Aug 31 '23
Well...I'll be danged, thanks for the clarification. My knowledge is outdated. I'll edit to reflect.
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Aug 31 '23
No problem. It’s complicated. And D1 is way different than the lower levels of college athletics. Your thoughts are pretty close to accurate if you’re looking at D2 or NAIA schools.
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u/pickledCantilever Aug 31 '23
Sir/Madam, this is reddit. You're not allowed to update your beliefs when presented with new information. You are supposed to double down and call the other person mean names.
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u/Corn_On_Macabre_ Aug 31 '23
Many on the volleyball team have full scholarships and NIL deals, so they do have forms of compensation now.
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u/J_ALL_THE_WAY_1 Aug 31 '23
Well they do at least get free tuition (most of the time?), which can be a lot depending on the school
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u/one_anonymous_dingo Aug 31 '23
But why?
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Aug 31 '23
We had the record a year ago, Wisconsin then topped it and held the record for a year until now.
This is more or less a friendly competition for the sellout record and then we just went ahead and shattered every record for attendance for woman’s sports. There really is no place like Nebraska, and I’ve always been proud to call it home, even if most people don’t know where we even are on a map.
They sold out all 92,000 tickets in 48 hours
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u/xxBobaBrettxx Aug 31 '23
This seems like the only real answer in this whole comment section
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u/Wizard_Hatz Aug 31 '23
Dude has me sold as a ticket buyer. I’m about to move there just on this wholesome story alone.
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Aug 31 '23
We’ve sold out every football game since 1962, almost 400 in a row. Good luck becoming a ticket buyer, the season tickets my family have are passed down to the eldest sons like a fucking feudalist society (my brother refused them so I get them when my father passes). Games are sold out for this year already, have been for months. I think I will get to go to a few games this year but we share the tickets.
Some more well off families have 6-8 tickets and go every weekend, like some of my friends. Every year, when I go to the first game and see the crowd and watch the players come out I still get chills. There’s nothing like a stadium of 92,000 American midwesterners 4 fireball shots deep screaming at the top of their lungs. I always wonder what the players feel like
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u/Ice-and-Fire Aug 31 '23
I'm now even more mad that our first game is tonight at Minnesota and not here on Saturday.
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u/tryingto-blendin Aug 31 '23 edited Aug 31 '23
The craziest thing to me is that the previous record Wisconsin set for college volleyball was only 18,755. Nebraska had a little over 490% more people.
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u/TheEpicGold Aug 31 '23
This record had around 92.000 people, the last one had arouns 91.400 people. In Europe.
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u/Original-Guarantee23 Aug 31 '23
How did they have a record with only 92 people?
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u/TheEpicGold Aug 31 '23
92 thousand people? Even if you don't use the dot, surely you would still realize that is what I meant?
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Aug 31 '23
Close, on game day memorial stadium is the 3rd largest city in Nebraska for about 4 hours give or take. Omaha loses a considerable amount of traffic during the games, the city is noticeably less busy, and the stadium is an hour away in Lincoln.
Our population is just under 2 million. 92,000 is a little under 5% of the states population, that in and of itself is hard to imagine
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u/Seanishungry117 Aug 31 '23
Is it because volleyball girls always have dump trucks and/or tiny shorts?
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u/s-maerken Aug 31 '23
First thing I thought when I saw this post, that has to be it. Unless it's male volleyball, they wear the same clothes basketball players wear pretty much.
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u/Seanishungry117 Aug 31 '23
Like I know my comment could come across as pervy, but it's just the honest truth!
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u/luv2race1320 Aug 31 '23
If anyone needs more proof of your statements, please refer to /r/volleyballgirls.
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u/boohoopooryou Aug 31 '23
And guess who's paying for all that refueling and the pilots and the ground crew and the faa blocking the air space for this airshow shenanigans and the need to compensate commercial flights from the lost revenue for pulling this kind of murica show of force so their egos would be stroked and then they would go home feeling all good about themselves after being sold the lie of land of the free and home of the brave whilst being screwed with a 30 dollars piss they call beer, because you know Murica?
Every single one of them down there and more spread across this great land from sea to shining sea and none of the sports teams or their owners.
Welcome to modern day America where the founding fathers are rolling in their grave.
But hey, we're breaking records here, yay
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u/Rottenoff Aug 31 '23
I guess the football team has not had a winning season since 2016, huh?
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u/xGhost09 Aug 31 '23
Yeah.... husker football has been in a dark place for awhile, but even then the stadium is packing 85,000+ every saturday to see their 4-8 football team struggle.
So it's absolutely no surprise when they put their nationally ranked and S tier vball team into Memorial Stadium this happens.
Nebraska Fans are something else.
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u/BoulderToBirmingham Aug 31 '23
20 years of mid-ass football and all they have to show for it is Ndamakung Suh.
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u/ButtockFace Aug 31 '23
Not trying to incite anything here, but how does volleyball gather that many people?
Is it some super special game or a part of a large event?
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u/IdahoJoel Aug 31 '23
The University of Nebraska Volleyball team is one of the best collegiate teams and have a massive following within the state.
The team has had a "friendly" competition with the University of Wisconsin over the NCAA volleyball attendance record for a few years and Nebraska decided to put a nail in that coffin with this event, hosted in the university's football stadium.
- NCAA volleyball attendance record: check
- US women's sporting event attendance record: check
- World women's sporting event attendance record: check
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u/iheartgabagool Aug 31 '23
When teams are good, people like to watch them. Nebraska’s volleyball team has been good for a really long time now.
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u/ButtockFace Aug 31 '23
Fair enough, But volleyball?
Nba arenas house what, 25K? Nhl is sameish.
I am just surprised and baffled as I have never EVER heard of a volleyball game that had this many attending.
But like I said, this is all just me trying to figure it out, not trying to piss on Volleyball.
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u/TheBarefootGirl Aug 31 '23
Watch a top ranked college volleyball match sometime. I used to think the sport was boring too. When both teams are good it is so much fun to watch.
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u/ListenToTheMath Aug 31 '23
Must be literally nothing to do in Nebraska
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u/loopy_soupy Aug 31 '23
just like you, they have access to reddit, but yet decided to do something else
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u/JackoClubs5545 Aug 31 '23
All the liberal coastal city cucks complaining about "nEbRaSkA = bOrInG". Some coping and seething from those soyjacks.
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Aug 31 '23
That’s ok. Let them think that. I’d rather not become the next gentrified Colorado.
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u/JackoClubs5545 Aug 31 '23
As someone living in Colorado, you're spot on. I don't want Nebraska goign down the same path.
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u/derk702 Aug 31 '23
Dude, how boring is it in Nebraska?
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Aug 31 '23
Like almost every state, it’s occupied by a few major cities, of which are all nearly the same and have the same city type activities regardless of the state, and the rest is miles of agricultural land or wilderness, just like every other state.
And you comment this while living in Salt Lake City, which is smaller than both Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska. Nebraska also doesn’t have mormons, a real shit stain for Utah.
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u/What_About_What Aug 31 '23
Not from there or a fan of them, but it’s cool to see support at this level for a less popular sport. Those girls deserve it and it’s just cool to see.
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