Memorial Stadium

The house that Nebraska football built: Memorial Stadium. The Sea of Red, Tom Osborne Field, and Cook Pavilion: all of these are associated with one of college footballs premier venues, Memorial Stadium. A very impressive, imposing building in person, it towers over you as you look up to its upper levels of the skyboxes. During the week it looks unused because the stands are empty, not even a shadow of what they become on the weekend. During the weekend it is transformed into a city. During a game, when all of its capacity eighty some thousand seats are all filled, Memorial Stadium could be considered the third largest city in Nebraska behind Omaha and Lincoln. All of the rowdy Nebraska fans, called the best in all of college football, have good clean fun. The deafening roar drowns out all other sounds as they cheer in unison for their team. The smell of hotdogs and Valentino's pizza as vendors make their way down the crowded aisles. The taste of the traditional foods that you can only get at a real game is just one piece of the surrounding sensations. You may try and copy the food but without the complimentary sensations nothing is quite the same. The full experience is a combination of all of the senses mingling together, each doing their own part to give the stereotypical college football game experience. And only at Nebraska's Memorial Stadium can all of these things together at the same time. Other schools have their own memorial stadiums that they try to copy the real thing but nothing beats the original. When you can call yourself lucky and be able to attend one of the games and contribute to the experience that is the tunnel walk you will truly be changed. You will take this moment with you and everything else will have to be compared to this memory. And very few things, if any, will be able to be considered better or more memorable than this one part of history.