Has anybody commented on Bryant McKinnie letting his guy go right by him and just standing there hopelessly watching as Manny Lawson pursued Brett Favre?  Completely ridiculous!  Earlier in the game, Favre completed a pass to Berrian (Who was looking Troy Williamson like for most of the game) and ran down the field to throw a block to try to spring him.

Now, we have a man who is paid millions of dollars every year, who's only job on this particular play is to make sure that nobody gets to the QB, and on the biggest play of the game, he just stands there and watches as Lawson gets dangerously close to Favre.  If Favre had waited another half a second, Lawson would have hit his arm, and the TD, and the win, never happen.

I'm so sick of this overpaid, lazy putz!

First of all, a little about me:  I was born in Minnesota and grew up watching the Vikings play and I'm still a Viking fan to this day. 

In the summer of 1976, when I was eleven years old, my Dad moved our whole family to central Nebraska so he would be closer to his work.  That fall I discovered college football.  I didn't know college football even existed up until that point.  I, as well as the rest of the family, soon became typical Nebraska fans.  We moved from Nebraska in '82 but we took the Huskers with us and despite living in seven different states since, we've remained faithful Huskers fans to this day.

I've been to one Red-White game, back in '77 (Remember I.M. Hipp?  We mobbed him at midfield after the game.  I was one of the first to get there!) and I saw the Huskers play Auburn in '81.

My sister, who has also stayed faithful to the Huskers, married a man last October, who also happens to be a lifelong Huskers fan despite being born and raised in southeast Kansas.  His Mom was from Hastings originally though, so that helps to explain things a bit as she was also a huge Huskers fan.

Since they've gotten married, they've had a run of just awful luck.  Back in March, their house burnt up in a fire.  They got some possessions out, but several family heirlooms from both sides of the family were lost.  Then in June, his Mom was found in her house unconscious.  She was in a coma for several days and passed away on June 13th.

Neither of them has been to a Nebraska game, so for their wedding last year, I was going to get them tickets, but couldn't afford them.  About a month back, I started thinking about what a crappy first year of marriage they've had so far, thought about the Huskers tickets thing again, and decided to put some money away to get them tickets.  I got them two tickets to the Sept. 26th game against Louisiana-Lafayette.  I'm going to surprise him (I had to include my sister in on this because I had to find out his work schedule, as it's a kind of a funky schedule!) today with the news.

Sorry for the long story but I wanted to go into why I'm doing what I'm doing. 

Here are my questions:  The tickets are section 3, row 47.  I've looked at a Memorial Stadium diagram and know about where they will be, but are the seats pretty decent?  Also, what about parking, places to stay, etc.  Any kind of help will be greatly appreciated.

Ron aka BaldViking

P. S.  GO HUSKERS!!!