The Tradition Continues!

All of us hear at Awesome, Inc. are big time Nebraska fans. Saturdays during the fall mean blackshirt defense, a soldout Memorial Stadium, and a sea of red.

The traditions continue. Every year you know the Huskers will be in a bowl game....oh, wait, no that streak of over 30 years ended last year with a 5-6 record.

Well, even when we're a little down, at least we can beat up on teams like Kansas which we have done 36 straight yea....oh, good lord, we just lost to them by 25 points today.

Fear not Husker fans. Despite a dark point the program's history, there is one thing you can count on every single Saturday when the Huskers take the field....the WORST play-by-play radio announcer football has ever seen. Jim freaking Rose.

This guy sucks. I mean you really need to listen to him do a game to appreciate his ineptitude. Here's a sampling of what makes him so unbearable from today's Kansas game:

1. Plays do not go for 2 or 3 yards according to Jim. No, everything is 2 and a half yards. The ball is always at the 33 1/2 yard line. Now some may say that I'm being picky b/c maybe Mr. Rose is a stickler for details. Well, guess what, that would be a stupid rebuttal. For Mr. Rose will say that a runner got 2 1/2 yards to bring up second down and 7 and yet, miraculously when the ball is set, it is second down and nine.

2. Rose gets really excited about 5 yard runs. It sounds to the listener that the Huskers are about to take it to the house judging by the excitement of Rose's voice. Did Taylor just hit Nunn for a touchdown? What's that? He got three yards to bring up 4th down? Oh.

3. When Rose gets excited about these routine plays something else happens. His voice becomes very, very high. All of a sudden you are no longer listening to a middle-aged dumbass, but a pre-pubescent boy excited about getting to go for ice cream.

4. He says really, really stupid things that he seems to think are funny or clever. A prime example is that the Kansas running game just jaunted through the large intestine of the Husker defense. What? That doesn't make sense.

5. He likes to repeat stupid crap nobody wants to hear multiple times during the game. For instance, I don't need to hear the color of the opponents' jersey, helment, pants, number, and NUMBER BORDER. It's grey? Who the hell cares? I also don't care that a team is going north to south more than once per quarter. Fortunately, if I did I'd get to be reminded about 16 times I guess.

6. He seems to feel the need to count down every single thing related to numbers like a kindergartener showing off for his teacher. "The clock is at 7:18, 7:17, 7:16. The play clock is at 6..5..4..3..2..1. The kickoff is returned to the 15, the 20, the 25, the 30, and he's down at the 31. Oh, well somehow the refs are marking him down at the 28. I'm not quite sure how they put the ball there."

7. DON'T TELL ME MARLON LUCKY JUST RAN BACK A KICKOFF FOR 98 YARDS AND GO INTO A STORY ABOUT HOW YOU PREDICTED WE'D RUN A KICKOFF BACK THIS YEAR THAT TAKES ABOUT 1 MINUTE AFTER THE PLAY AND THEN LET ME HEAR THE REF CALLING A BLOCK IN THE BACK AND HAVE YOU SAY "OH, I DIDN'T SEE THE FLAG."

I hate you, Jim Rose.

J.H. Naners