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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You watched the Nebraska Coloradoga I did, Yeah, what do
you think looking pretty good? Well, they had a great
first half and then they just kind of sat on it.
They sat on it. Yeah, they did the same thing
against you.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Tip two.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I don't know if it was a lot to do
with the schemes or anything. I think it was more
about just let's get out of here. We don't need
to run anything up here. Look good though, they looked good.
I think that's important to note. What say you about? Like,
how do I say this? You mentioned to me Dylan Ryle.
(00:37):
I mean, he's the guy, he's the guy, but man,
he's starting to get roasted on a weekly basis by
non Nebraska fans saying is this literally like did you
go to Nebraska? Because their uniforms look like the Chiefs uniforms.
He is built like Patrick Mahomes, He's got a haircut
like Patrick Mahomes, he walks like Patrick Mahomes. He can
(00:59):
sling it like yeah, but a lot of people are
just like, bro, your cosplay is like going too far
from me.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I am like he's a nineteen year old kid as
he was coming up through like as much as Patrick
Mahomes seems like he's a new guy. Mahomes was drafted
in like twenty seventeen or something like that, so I
mean he's been in the league for like eight nine
years now. Like he's he's like in his late twenties, right,
I was nineteen years old. Like as he was coming
through tackle football, Mahomes was like the guy the whole time.
(01:26):
You know, we just had to put that in context.
He is blessed to have looked quite a bit like him,
for whatever that's worth. He's also an incredibly good player.
Like through two weeks, you could I don't know if
you could ask what for more of him? To be honest,
he's not Mahomes, but he just might be my house. Oh,
come on, dumb? Why that was dumb? I thought it
was pretty good. That was dumb.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I'll think of a way to reword it, and I'll
get you to laugh next time.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Nah.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Good Luckily, if you starts struggling, then we might want
to call him my apartment. Okay, yeah, I'm starting to
cause like apartment is like would you say it's less
than no?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
No, I think you're I think this is dumb, and
I suggest you abandon the joke.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, bad joke, bad joke, you stop that. I liked
it first touchdown with Gordon, A bunch of balloons released
into the air student section especially, do you see that?
Can you give me a quick synopsis of the genesis?
And apparently the end of the balloons? I forgot that
(02:30):
they ended? Okay, so but that this was a thing. Yeah,
And it's in that awesome commercial, the Big ten commercial
where they show all the schools that are in the
Big Ten in a thirty second ad.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
It's an awesome commercial.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
It's like the map and they PLoP up the campuses
and the stadiums and like show within a couple of
seconds like some of the traditions. And on the Nebraska one,
the Lincoln Memorial Memorial Stadium pops up in Lincoln as
they're kind of traversing through the landscape. It's a great commercial.
And when the stadium pops up, a bunch of balloons
are released from little stadium. So I knew it was
like a thing just from that commercial. I just hadn't
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specifically paid attention to it until I got here. I'm
guessing it ended because it's terrible for the environment. Is
that right? Or is there a helium shortage. Like I
remember why it ended. I remember hearing like a story
somebody actually when they went and played in Ireland, somebody
over there wrote a story about it, and other people
have to there's stories about like foreign countries having like
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Nebraska balloons wash up on their beach. So these balloons
they float in the air and sometimes they go places
and you never know they you know, they get eaten
by animals. Yeah, and you know, can't process plastic. It
gets entangled in there intestines or whatever, and then they die.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I suppose that, Yeah, that's certainly possible. Well it's happened.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
There's there's there's plenty of evidence of it actually happening,
not necessarily in relation to this specifically this red balloon thing.
Two season hiatus I did find this information. Basically, they
will consider bringing the balloons back for special occasions. You
don't have to pay for the balloon, which that'd be
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even more stupid. Trev Albert said in twenty twenty two,
there was a helium shortage. A helium shortage. Balloon swored
after the first point for over sixty years before twenty
twenty two, when they stopped it because of a helium shortage.
Now I don't know about helium shortage or anything like.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
That, but this there was a big debate.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I had multiple people texting me and said, hey, if
you actually care about conservation, you're gonna have to talk
about this, And I was like, yeah, I'll talk about it.
I have to be on it. The tradition means a
lot less to me than it would a lot of people.
Because I moved here in twenty twenty three. I didn't
go to Moorial Statem until twenty twenty three. I don't
know what it's like about the balloons, right like I didn't.
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I didn't know this was a thing before that would
be considered a quote tradition like that, And I didn't
know how many people about one way or the other.
Now a ton of people, of course sent positive vibes
that bring them back for all the games, but they're
getting a ton of pushback from a lot of different
people saying, no, this is bad, We're just fine without this.
Is there something else that we can do without you know,
potentially harming our environment and wildlife and whatever. And I'm
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here to foster a conversation. I I as much as
I really care about conservation. I feel like I'm a
little underqualified to talk at length opinion wise about this specifically,
So I want you to call in and we can
talk about this the Bulliants after the first points for Nebraska.
Yay or nay, I'd love to talk to you about it,
(05:39):
So call us at four ROH two five five eight
eleven ten four H two five five eight eleven ten,
News Radio eleven ten kfab Emery Songer. You know, I'm
learning a little bit about as like a hardcore tradition
that was stopped a couple of years ago for a
helium shortage, which again I don't know. I don't know
if that wins out over people's saying the pollution of
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the balloons that eventually will have to come down at
some point and be in the wildlife in all likelihood
and completely unaccounted for. I just feel like, because I
don't have the same type of ties to the tradition,
I'm a little underqualified to talk about this, even if
I'm not a fan personally of releasing helium balloons or
plastic balloons into the to the air for really any
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reason at all. At the same time, I feel like
this is a little bit of a different conversation than
just releasing balloons randomly. Let's go ahead and get to
the phones. Four, two, five, five, eight, eleven ten. I
want you to kind of explain to me about the
balloons and why or why not we should keep doing
the balloon thing. Joe is on the line. Joe, welcome
to the show. What do you think about this?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Okay, so, first of all, I don't like the balloons
up for the same reason you know, it's an environmental issue.
The reason the balloons and they stopped doing them is
number one, there are several Number one trev Albler t
ruins what he touches. Oh yeah, I know, Travis Smith.
And Travis Smith.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Told me the reason I stopped doing the balloon f
nboh buys the balloons and the helium and all was
spending so much money buying tickets up to save the
sellout streak that they cut the university off from the
balloons and they had to stop.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Interesting inventive story. And again Travis Smith, a man who
uses a lot of helium in his business, knows this.
There was no helium shortage.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Okay, interesting, all right, but your personal They.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Got a couple of games against cupcakes and FNBO is
not having to buy tickets to sell out.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Interesting, interesting, Joe. Hey, I appreciate your thoughts on this.
Thanks for listening and calling in. Let's go ahead and
get the bill. Bill, you got some thoughts on this
here balloon story.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Well, yeah, I'm not sure of the exact date when
they did it, but I'm pretty sure that they quit
using just a normal latex balloon and they went to
a special biodegradable balloon because of the environmentalists. Yeah, they
were really, you know, raising a stink about it. Yeah,
(08:12):
so the balloons that they release, I could possibly be wrong,
but I'm pretty sure they're a special balloon now. And anyway,
besides the fact, you know, nobody has a problem putting
up millions of wind turbines that kill birds and stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Well, yeah, I mean there's definitely there, Bill, If you're
going to be a true conservationist, there's always going to
be something like that, for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
No, I understand that.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I'm trying to trying to see if I can't help
figure out exactly what they make the balloons out of.
Nobody like the people every story I've read about this,
they made it sound like this is you know, these
were just normal everyday plastic balloons and string and whatever.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
And they used to be I want to say, it
was like a round like twenty eighteen or maybe twenty
nineteen somewhere in there when they switched over to the
special balloon. But I'm and I'm not, you know, gonna
you know, stand one hundred percent on that, but I'm
pretty sure, yeah, that they use a special biodegradable balloon now.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, And I mean I'd love to learn more about
that because those are out there. I mean, there's there's
definitely I've seen people, you know, advertise for those specifically,
and I think it's a you know that that obviously
an animal that would eat a biodegradable balloon out there
in the wild, won't. I mean, they'll be able to
process that in all likelihoods. So it's it's interesting.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Bill.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I appreciate you bringing that to our attention today. Thanks
for the call.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
All right, no problem, have a good one.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yeah you too. What do you think over there, Matty
Husker about the balloons? Yeah, I think a couple of
years ago I got asked that and at the time
I said, and yeah, I'd be fine if it went away.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
And and.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I've never have I let's see, I don't think I've
been to games, but I just don't think I ever
had a balloon to release, you know, so like it's
not not to pay.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
For them, you can just like they all the stuitents
had them, Like that was really the spot where most
of them are released. I mean, I'm the kind of
person that's not going to stop for one of those
things either, you know what I mean. Yeah, And to
be honest, if I know that it could potentially kill
a bird or a cow or a deer or something,
I've had a bird fly into my window before and perish,
(10:31):
you know what I mean. Like, so that's a bummer.
And it happens, it happens, I mean. And so it
is kind of like you know, on the wind turbines,
like you brought up. That's a good point, but you
know it's it's not really something that moves the meter
for me. I think it's I think it's a cool
look and it is a tradition and it's cool, don't
get me wrong. I mean it was cool to see.
I don't want to discount that. You know, it's just like,
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what's the the coolness factor of that versus you know, like,
could we come up with something else or are we
a to this specific idea because it's just what we
did for sixty years.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Right if you ask me personally, Apparently it went away
last year. I didn't even notice, So bringing it back
to me is kind of like, yeah, it can go away,
like it doesn't matter to me. But there's a lot
of people who disagree with that because they care about
it and because they participate in it, and it matters
to them. I would say, Hey, a few extra birds
get to live a few more days and and dear,
(11:25):
and doesn't an impact my life at all. Hey, yeah,
sure sounds good to me. Okay, do we need another?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Do you think would be easier to let go of
this one if we come up with a new one,
like a new tradition? And what would that tradition be? Like,
what could we make that's a Nebraska tradition? And please
don't suggest wheeling out a live stock of corn. We
already had that conversation. Is that something we could think about?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah? I think so what could what could replace it? Okay,
so it's cooler.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
So if you got thoughts on the balloons, the red balloons,
the red balloon release, if you have thoughts on maybe
a new tradiation that could replace that. You know, even
though they say it's not back full time, it's back
for selected games, but it was back this past weekend.
I'd be interested in talking to you about this again.
I feel a little underqualified to talk about the traditional
aspect at some point, but I don't know. There's there's
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just a lot to unpack here. So if you want
to be a part of the show, you can four
row two five five eight eleven ten if you want
to talk about these balloons four two five five eight
eleven ten, News Radio eleven ten kfab Oh the balloon release.
It came back, and it's kind of a one off.
They said it could come back for various attempts later.
(12:38):
But the big red balloons. After the first touchdown, everybody
let's go with their balloon and it leaves the stadium.
It's a pretty cool thing to see. However, the conservationist
in me and the conservationists in a lot of people
who messaged me like, hey, you better talk about this
like this week.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
You know, it just.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Makes me feel like, is there another way that we
could be I don't know, have traditions. So a couple
of things that I want you to moll over and
you can call in at four two five five eight
eleven ten the number four h two five five eight
eleven ten. The first thing is what do you think
about the balloon release? Second thing is, okay, whether you
like it or you don't like it, is there an
alternative tradition that maybe could take its place? Because maybe
(13:19):
that's one of the reasons why people are attached to
this is there isn't when you go to Lincoln, there's
not like that obvious always, you know, unique thing that
is done traditionally for Nebraska football.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
There's a lot of big programs that don't have that
obviously you know, big tradition thing that's super unique. But
you know, maybe having one of those things could alleviate
the loss of this in the future. Well, let's get
to those phone lines. Less is on our phone line
four two five five eight eleven ten. Hey, Les, what
do you think about this?
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Well, yeah, I don't know about the conservation part of it,
but we spent a few miserable years in the stadium
and we didn't score touchdowns very quickly, and so people
held on to the balloons. And then and then our
first score happened to be a field goal, and we
(14:13):
all said, well, that's not balloon worthy. So then we
thought after the first score, an alternative would be just
play the song come a Running boys.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, so less that's a good point. What were they obscuring?
Like people are hanging on to them? But I'm sure
like the balloons are obscuring, like in the student section,
the kids that are a little higher in the student
section probably couldn't see much of anything. Well, everybody was
holding onto their balloons.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
Right, Yeah, a lot of kids held on a lot
of kids held on to their balloons. And then a
lot of kids waited too long and their balloon went
up in the air before it was ready. And then they.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Cried, yeahh there you go.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Hey, look look and this is this is good. This
is why we from this out. I wouldn't even thought
about this how long. Maybe sometimes it would have taken
in the old days, maybe even you know, you're get
in a defensive battle. These days, you could be holding
onto that thing for you know, a full quarter or
a quarter and a half or a full half of football.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It's interesting, it's an interesting thing.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
To be thinking about because you're still holding on to
it in the middle of the stadium. It's pretty interesting.
Let's thanks for the call.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
You bet.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Kevin's on her phone line, Kevin, Welcome to the show.
You're with Memory on news radio eleven to ten kfa B.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Well, thanks for taking my call, Amory.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah, I'm going to speak to what I see as
a hypocrisy, the people that don't want to release the balloons,
the shame ones that don't want the windmills out there
because they kill birds. I assume that you all do
not eat fried chicken or turkey on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
You've never had a.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Cornersh hen and who determines when an animal is shooting
up to eat and shooting up to preserve.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
So, I used to have fed up with.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
The left hipocrisy because they're always showing animals to say
we can't do it because an animal might die. Animals
were put there to feed human in the story.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yeah, no, so, Kevin, I don't disagree with what you're
saying in general. You know, I'm a meet eating person myself.
You know, I think there's a way to you know,
care about the environment and conservation while also being realistic
about our farm industry, and you know, the needs of
a human anatomy, and there's no doubt about that. And
I've watched several animals also, you know, ambush other animals
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and kill it right in front of my eyes in
the wild, So you know, you know, I don't know
if anybody's telling those snakes that they shouldn't be eating
that very cute little mouse, you know what I mean.
But I guess my point though, Kevin, is, if we're
talking about traditions specifically, right, if we're going to kind
of like lean into this helium balloon plastic balloon thing,
(16:43):
it seems this seems like there's like the positive is
we get to watch a bunch of balloons release and
we call it a tradition in Nebraska. Is that a
good enough tradition to pollute you know, the grounds or
is it a good enough tradition to pollute you know,
farmland and have you know, cattle hooking on them, expistigating
themselves on them.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I don't Again, I don't.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Know absolutely it is okay, I don't think those ballues
create enough of a environmental hazard, especially not when you
consider how many plastic bags gets trotted out of a
grocery store every fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
That's another good point. That's another good point there, Kevin. Hey,
this is why I farm this out. I like hearing
these perspectives. Thanks for listening to our show today.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Hey, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Amory.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Absolutely, absolutely, this is the kind of good stuff. That's
the conversation since we like having that stuff. Four two, five, five, eight, eleven,
ten And we got Mike on the line. Hello, Mike,
welcome to the show today. What do you think about this?
Speaker 9 (17:34):
Who's going on? Emory?
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Hey say, I so?
Speaker 9 (17:38):
Does anybody had anybody figured out yet whether those balloons
are actually biodegradable?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I've spent the entire uh, I spent the entire commercial
break kind of looking for confirmation on that. I haven't
seen that confirmed by a reputabil bull source.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
I mean, I will say I love the balloon. No,
it's just a cool thing when we score our first
touchdown or whatever. But I'd always assumed that, you know,
we just you know, we're not going to send up
a bunch of late tex balloons and you know, whatever
string is attached to them, you know that isn't biodegradable. Yeah,
(18:19):
I'm No, I'm no conservationists, but I would expect we
would at least do that, because even if animals were
put on the planet to feed humans, we don't kill
unnecessarily either.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah, well we try not to. That certainly doesn't necessarily
speak for you know, everybody out there. But I did
see the only thing that I did see that had
this in it was a post by a page called
Husker Football Nation. In the top comment there says the
balloons are biodegradable. It's from a random person. I don't
know if this is legitimate. How much of an impact
will this balloon release having the environment? Absolutely none. A
(18:54):
test li Sedan is a bigger threat to the environment
than this balloon release. But again that's a that's a person,
not Nebraska. I'm not one hundred percent sure. I'm still
trying the best that I can't to find people say
it's biodegradable. So it's it's a good point, Mike. I
wish I had more information to confirm or deny that.
(19:14):
But if they are biodegradable, uh, that certainly changes I
think the complexion of the conversation.
Speaker 9 (19:19):
For sure, I appreciate it. Hey, one other thing, Yeah,
my house was funny as hell.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Okay, fine, Matt, you had a good joke. People liked them.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
A house joke, I got you, all right, funny stuff,
all right, thanks Mike, appreciate coing in.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
All right, that's a that's good. Yeah, So there you go.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I also had an email, for whatever it's worth, another
person saying that the apartment joke was a good one too.
So there, there you go. You have two people saying
that you had funny jokes there.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Man, I thought so too. I thought I thought I
was cooking with some sauce in the apartment. Yeah, I'm
telling you my apartment. And we got ourselves in an
apartment down there, and like, oh stop, he's nineteen years old.
Let him do what he wants.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
It.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Will You mentioned something it wouldn't surprise me, Like get
the Halloween season, and Nebraska's like climbing in the rankings
and they still you know, like undefeated or one loss
or whatever, and people start getting a little more familiar
with Dylan Riyola. Wouldn't shock you. You see him like
Papa into one of those you know, state farm commercials
with Patty. Don't you think I think that could? I mean,
let's get that happening for sure. Yeah, like cosplay Mahomes
(20:26):
is like, you're not Patrick Mahomes and it's just like,
oh no, this is my minime or whatever, you know,
like and you can elevate the Dylan Royola brand doing
it that way too. Yeah, we'll get to more calls here.
We got Wayne, We got done. And is that Lieutenant Dan?
It sure is, wow, Lieutenant Dan, you got legs, Lieutenant Dan.
We'll take those calls coming up next. And if you
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want to call in about this balloon release, you to
talk about maybe you know, potential alternative traditions that you
think could stick that are unique to Nebraska, we'll talk
about it. Call us at four h two five five
eight eleven ten News Radio eleven ten kafab.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Marie Songer on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
In that regard, of course, the balloon release, however, they
are houted to be biodegradable according to this this is
a Sports Illustrated article. However, they don't magically go away.
In fact, they said in twenty eighteen there was a
Huskers balloon somehow it was found on a beach in
New York. It landed on a beach in New York
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and you know, for whatever that's worth, again, it's a
little bit of a weird thing to be talking about here, because, yeah,
one of the odds that you know, these random late
text balloons when they land, are going to just be
eaten by an animal, and that's how that animal meets
its end. I don't know. I don't know the answer
to that question. I do know that it seems like
a preventable thing. And this person who wrote this article,
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which by the way, is Dave Fight I think is
his name, he said that there was a poll that
was taken about from the Athletic Department over the twenty
twenty one to twenty two winter asking fans to rate
their satisfaction with game to elements and traditions, and apparently
the balloon release was tied for least popular with come
(22:08):
a Running Boys. Now, I don't know who they were asking,
but apparently the balloon release wasn't that popular even a
couple of years ago. Well, I'm getting your thoughts on it.
You can call in it for two, five, five, eight,
eleven ten. We got Wayne on the line. Wayne, welcome
to the show today.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Hey, thanks for taking my call. I'm not sure about
that ball, but they evidently didn't send it out to
ticket holders because he's and ticket holders, because I don't
remember that one, and I'm usually pretty good about answering
their survey.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, he didn't.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
He didn't say exactly when who was asked about that. Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
So, yeah, you kind of took what I was gonna say.
They are bi already gradeable about twenty years for the
last couple of decades before they finally shut it down.
You know, the environmental groups been on it. They said, okay,
we'll go and biodegradable then, and that seemed to take
that argument away until COVID and the health care and
(23:00):
they came around with the helium thing, and that's the
one that kind of pretty much sunk it in my opinion.
But anyway, I'm a I'm a big balloon man myself.
The first first season, after they got away with them,
we went down to Party City and got our own balloons,
took them up there, and I had my kids walking
with me and they were behind me in line, and
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next thing I know them up at the gate and
I turned around and where the hecks all my kids?
They abandoned me. They said he's going to get thrown
out of here because we had balloons, and no, they
let us in. And of course we've been letting balloons
go every time we go to the game ever since.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Yeah, no, that's I got to tell you.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
When I went to the opening game against UTAP right,
and again I'm kind of oblivious to the tradition itself,
there were still you know, I would say probably twenty
balloons in the stadium that were released, so people brought
them in and nobody seemed to tell him they couldn't,
so you know, whatever that's worth.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
Six were ours.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Yeah, there you go. Now that's I know where you're
sit now, Wayne, So look out. Hey, thanks for the call, Buddy.
Don's on the phone line four O two five five,
eight eleven ten. What do you think about all this?
Speaker 10 (24:05):
Don, I'm a sixty year Husker fan and I've always
loved the balloon release, even when I was a little kid.
And using the logic these people are that these balloons
kill animals. Yeah, are we going to ban all cars
(24:27):
then because they killed deer, rabbits, squirrels, even human.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (24:34):
One more, one more, one more thing? What are we
going to do about my condo.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Okay, all right, I get it. Everybody liked the joke. Congratulations, Matt,
you got one.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
You got that?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, okay, all right, fair enough, don Thanks for the call.
But Lieutenant Dan is on the line of I don't
know where this is going to go. Lieutenant Dan, welcome
to the show. What do you think?
Speaker 11 (24:59):
Hey, to talk to you bad thing. I'd have legs,
but they've had about eighty birthdays. Other than that, they're
doing good.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Hey, you sound great, Lieutenant Dan.
Speaker 11 (25:06):
I got a great idea. Okay, put a free runs
of Sandy's Chupon and about every tenth balloon that way
up to the game, people would go out in all
the country and pick up the balloons looking for the coupons.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Hey, there you go.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Now you're talking. That's that's not too bad. Not too
bad of an idea that you got there, Lieutenant Dan.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Thanks for calling in, all right.
Speaker 11 (25:25):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
All right? What are you doing here? I told you
i'd be your first mate. Well here I am. I'm
a man of my word, but I won't be calling
you sir. That's my bout. Yeah, No, great movie. I
just wish there was audio that could represent the wave
that Forrest does when he sees Lieutenant Diane that wave, man.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yeah, that's a wave, and he abandons the boat, which
eventually comes back around and crashes. We don't he doesn't
really have to pay for that damage, though, because he's
the only shrimping boat that ended up survive in that
one storm that one time. Remember that due It wasn't
Wasn't it just a little bit weird that he didn't
actually like lend a hant any of his shrimping boat
pals that were lost in that hurricane. Oh don't you
(26:12):
think a nice guy like like Forrest Gump would have just,
you know, helped out the industry a little bit incentive
monopolizing it. Let's cancel Forrest Gump. Yeah, he'd be canceled today,
that's for sure. Hey, Joe, real quick on the phones
four two, five, five, eight, eleven ten.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
What do you think, Joe?
Speaker 12 (26:27):
Yeah, hey quick, hitter balloons are so eighteen ninety and
seventy seventy one and ninety four ninety five. And just
like and Lieutenant Dan had a great idea. But take
it further and I'll.
Speaker 9 (26:42):
Mark this seat.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
This is to day I gave the athletic.
Speaker 12 (26:44):
Department a great idea, sell drones with protected propellers and
have the company out of Norfolk that does the drone
shows sell They can sell the drones ten dollars pop
fifty thousand people by a drone, that's five hundred dollars
in the athletics departments, and they randomly picked ten thrones
(27:06):
and they win tickets to.
Speaker 9 (27:08):
The next game.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
So it's like it's a contest to pop a bunch
of these balloons as they exit the stadium. Interesting, All right, Joe,
you're onto something, You're onto something. Let's uh, we'll we'll
circle back to this. Thanks for the call. Yeah, all right,
if you want to call in, we got more calls
coming in four oh two, five, five, eight eleven ten.
Four oh two, five, five, eight eleven ten. We'll keep
(27:30):
this conversation a roll. And what do you think about
the balloon tradition, the balloon release tradition, which made a
reappearance this past weekend after a couple of years of
being gone by the wayside.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
We'll take your.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Calls on it, and if you have an idea for
an alternative tradition, we'll talk about that too. Stick around
four oh two, five, five, eight eleven ten's that number
four oh two, five, five, eight, eleven ten News Radio, eleven,
ten kfab
You watched the Nebraska Coloradoga I did, Yeah, what do
you think looking pretty good? Well, they had a great
first half and then they just kind of sat on it.
They sat on it. Yeah, they did the same thing
against you.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Tip two.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I don't know if it was a lot to do
with the schemes or anything. I think it was more
about just let's get out of here. We don't need
to run anything up here. Look good though, they looked good.
I think that's important to note. What say you about? Like,
how do I say this? You mentioned to me Dylan Ryle.
(00:37):
I mean, he's the guy, he's the guy, but man,
he's starting to get roasted on a weekly basis by
non Nebraska fans saying is this literally like did you
go to Nebraska? Because their uniforms look like the Chiefs uniforms.
He is built like Patrick Mahomes, He's got a haircut
like Patrick Mahomes, he walks like Patrick Mahomes. He can
(00:59):
sling it like yeah, but a lot of people are
just like, bro, your cosplay is like going too far
from me.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I am like he's a nineteen year old kid as
he was coming up through like as much as Patrick
Mahomes seems like he's a new guy. Mahomes was drafted
in like twenty seventeen or something like that, so I
mean he's been in the league for like eight nine
years now. Like he's he's like in his late twenties, right,
I was nineteen years old. Like as he was coming
through tackle football, Mahomes was like the guy the whole time.
(01:26):
You know, we just had to put that in context.
He is blessed to have looked quite a bit like him,
for whatever that's worth. He's also an incredibly good player.
Like through two weeks, you could I don't know if
you could ask what for more of him? To be honest,
he's not Mahomes, but he just might be my house. Oh,
come on, dumb? Why that was dumb? I thought it
was pretty good. That was dumb.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I'll think of a way to reword it, and I'll
get you to laugh next time.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Nah.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Good Luckily, if you starts struggling, then we might want
to call him my apartment. Okay, yeah, I'm starting to
cause like apartment is like would you say it's less
than no?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
No, I think you're I think this is dumb, and
I suggest you abandon the joke.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, bad joke, bad joke, you stop that. I liked
it first touchdown with Gordon, A bunch of balloons released
into the air student section especially, do you see that?
Can you give me a quick synopsis of the genesis?
And apparently the end of the balloons? I forgot that
(02:30):
they ended? Okay, so but that this was a thing. Yeah,
And it's in that awesome commercial, the Big ten commercial
where they show all the schools that are in the
Big Ten in a thirty second ad.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
It's an awesome commercial.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
It's like the map and they PLoP up the campuses
and the stadiums and like show within a couple of
seconds like some of the traditions. And on the Nebraska one,
the Lincoln Memorial Memorial Stadium pops up in Lincoln as
they're kind of traversing through the landscape. It's a great commercial.
And when the stadium pops up, a bunch of balloons
are released from little stadium. So I knew it was
like a thing just from that commercial. I just hadn't
(03:04):
specifically paid attention to it until I got here. I'm
guessing it ended because it's terrible for the environment. Is
that right? Or is there a helium shortage. Like I
remember why it ended. I remember hearing like a story
somebody actually when they went and played in Ireland, somebody
over there wrote a story about it, and other people
have to there's stories about like foreign countries having like
(03:29):
Nebraska balloons wash up on their beach. So these balloons
they float in the air and sometimes they go places
and you never know they you know, they get eaten
by animals. Yeah, and you know, can't process plastic. It
gets entangled in there intestines or whatever, and then they die.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I suppose that, Yeah, that's certainly possible. Well it's happened.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
There's there's there's plenty of evidence of it actually happening,
not necessarily in relation to this specifically this red balloon thing.
Two season hiatus I did find this information. Basically, they
will consider bringing the balloons back for special occasions. You
don't have to pay for the balloon, which that'd be
(04:06):
even more stupid. Trev Albert said in twenty twenty two,
there was a helium shortage. A helium shortage. Balloon swored
after the first point for over sixty years before twenty
twenty two, when they stopped it because of a helium shortage.
Now I don't know about helium shortage or anything like.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
That, but this there was a big debate.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I had multiple people texting me and said, hey, if
you actually care about conservation, you're gonna have to talk
about this, And I was like, yeah, I'll talk about it.
I have to be on it. The tradition means a
lot less to me than it would a lot of people.
Because I moved here in twenty twenty three. I didn't
go to Moorial Statem until twenty twenty three. I don't
know what it's like about the balloons, right like I didn't.
(04:53):
I didn't know this was a thing before that would
be considered a quote tradition like that, And I didn't
know how many people about one way or the other.
Now a ton of people, of course sent positive vibes
that bring them back for all the games, but they're
getting a ton of pushback from a lot of different
people saying, no, this is bad, We're just fine without this.
Is there something else that we can do without you know,
potentially harming our environment and wildlife and whatever. And I'm
(05:17):
here to foster a conversation. I I as much as
I really care about conservation. I feel like I'm a
little underqualified to talk at length opinion wise about this specifically,
So I want you to call in and we can
talk about this the Bulliants after the first points for Nebraska.
Yay or nay, I'd love to talk to you about it,
(05:39):
So call us at four ROH two five five eight
eleven ten four H two five five eight eleven ten,
News Radio eleven ten kfab Emery Songer. You know, I'm
learning a little bit about as like a hardcore tradition
that was stopped a couple of years ago for a
helium shortage, which again I don't know. I don't know
if that wins out over people's saying the pollution of
(06:01):
the balloons that eventually will have to come down at
some point and be in the wildlife in all likelihood
and completely unaccounted for. I just feel like, because I
don't have the same type of ties to the tradition,
I'm a little underqualified to talk about this, even if
I'm not a fan personally of releasing helium balloons or
plastic balloons into the to the air for really any
(06:22):
reason at all. At the same time, I feel like
this is a little bit of a different conversation than
just releasing balloons randomly. Let's go ahead and get to
the phones. Four, two, five, five, eight, eleven ten. I
want you to kind of explain to me about the
balloons and why or why not we should keep doing
the balloon thing. Joe is on the line. Joe, welcome
to the show. What do you think about this?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Okay, so, first of all, I don't like the balloons
up for the same reason you know, it's an environmental issue.
The reason the balloons and they stopped doing them is
number one, there are several Number one trev Albler t
ruins what he touches. Oh yeah, I know, Travis Smith.
And Travis Smith.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Told me the reason I stopped doing the balloon f
nboh buys the balloons and the helium and all was
spending so much money buying tickets up to save the
sellout streak that they cut the university off from the
balloons and they had to stop.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Interesting inventive story. And again Travis Smith, a man who
uses a lot of helium in his business, knows this.
There was no helium shortage.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Okay, interesting, all right, but your personal They.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Got a couple of games against cupcakes and FNBO is
not having to buy tickets to sell out.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Interesting, interesting, Joe. Hey, I appreciate your thoughts on this.
Thanks for listening and calling in. Let's go ahead and
get the bill. Bill, you got some thoughts on this
here balloon story.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Well, yeah, I'm not sure of the exact date when
they did it, but I'm pretty sure that they quit
using just a normal latex balloon and they went to
a special biodegradable balloon because of the environmentalists. Yeah, they
were really, you know, raising a stink about it. Yeah,
(08:12):
so the balloons that they release, I could possibly be wrong,
but I'm pretty sure they're a special balloon now. And anyway,
besides the fact, you know, nobody has a problem putting
up millions of wind turbines that kill birds and stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Well, yeah, I mean there's definitely there, Bill, If you're
going to be a true conservationist, there's always going to
be something like that, for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
No, I understand that.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I'm trying to trying to see if I can't help
figure out exactly what they make the balloons out of.
Nobody like the people every story I've read about this,
they made it sound like this is you know, these
were just normal everyday plastic balloons and string and whatever.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
And they used to be I want to say, it
was like a round like twenty eighteen or maybe twenty
nineteen somewhere in there when they switched over to the
special balloon. But I'm and I'm not, you know, gonna
you know, stand one hundred percent on that, but I'm
pretty sure, yeah, that they use a special biodegradable balloon now.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, And I mean I'd love to learn more about
that because those are out there. I mean, there's there's
definitely I've seen people, you know, advertise for those specifically,
and I think it's a you know that that obviously
an animal that would eat a biodegradable balloon out there
in the wild, won't. I mean, they'll be able to
process that in all likelihoods. So it's it's interesting.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Bill.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I appreciate you bringing that to our attention today. Thanks
for the call.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
All right, no problem, have a good one.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yeah you too. What do you think over there, Matty
Husker about the balloons? Yeah, I think a couple of
years ago I got asked that and at the time
I said, and yeah, I'd be fine if it went away.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
And and.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I've never have I let's see, I don't think I've
been to games, but I just don't think I ever
had a balloon to release, you know, so like it's
not not to pay.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
For them, you can just like they all the stuitents
had them, Like that was really the spot where most
of them are released. I mean, I'm the kind of
person that's not going to stop for one of those
things either, you know what I mean. Yeah, And to
be honest, if I know that it could potentially kill
a bird or a cow or a deer or something,
I've had a bird fly into my window before and perish,
(10:31):
you know what I mean. Like, so that's a bummer.
And it happens, it happens, I mean. And so it
is kind of like you know, on the wind turbines,
like you brought up. That's a good point, but you
know it's it's not really something that moves the meter
for me. I think it's I think it's a cool
look and it is a tradition and it's cool, don't
get me wrong. I mean it was cool to see.
I don't want to discount that. You know, it's just like,
(10:52):
what's the the coolness factor of that versus you know, like,
could we come up with something else or are we
a to this specific idea because it's just what we
did for sixty years.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Right if you ask me personally, Apparently it went away
last year. I didn't even notice, So bringing it back
to me is kind of like, yeah, it can go away,
like it doesn't matter to me. But there's a lot
of people who disagree with that because they care about
it and because they participate in it, and it matters
to them. I would say, Hey, a few extra birds
get to live a few more days and and dear,
(11:25):
and doesn't an impact my life at all. Hey, yeah,
sure sounds good to me. Okay, do we need another?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Do you think would be easier to let go of
this one if we come up with a new one,
like a new tradition? And what would that tradition be? Like,
what could we make that's a Nebraska tradition? And please
don't suggest wheeling out a live stock of corn. We
already had that conversation. Is that something we could think about?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah? I think so what could what could replace it? Okay,
so it's cooler.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
So if you got thoughts on the balloons, the red balloons,
the red balloon release, if you have thoughts on maybe
a new tradiation that could replace that. You know, even
though they say it's not back full time, it's back
for selected games, but it was back this past weekend.
I'd be interested in talking to you about this again.
I feel a little underqualified to talk about the traditional
aspect at some point, but I don't know. There's there's
(12:17):
just a lot to unpack here. So if you want
to be a part of the show, you can four
row two five five eight eleven ten if you want
to talk about these balloons four two five five eight
eleven ten, News Radio eleven ten kfab Oh the balloon release.
It came back, and it's kind of a one off.
They said it could come back for various attempts later.
(12:38):
But the big red balloons. After the first touchdown, everybody
let's go with their balloon and it leaves the stadium.
It's a pretty cool thing to see. However, the conservationist
in me and the conservationists in a lot of people
who messaged me like, hey, you better talk about this
like this week.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
You know, it just.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Makes me feel like, is there another way that we
could be I don't know, have traditions. So a couple
of things that I want you to moll over and
you can call in at four two five five eight
eleven ten the number four h two five five eight
eleven ten. The first thing is what do you think
about the balloon release? Second thing is, okay, whether you
like it or you don't like it, is there an
alternative tradition that maybe could take its place? Because maybe
(13:19):
that's one of the reasons why people are attached to
this is there isn't when you go to Lincoln, there's
not like that obvious always, you know, unique thing that
is done traditionally for Nebraska football.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
There's a lot of big programs that don't have that
obviously you know, big tradition thing that's super unique. But
you know, maybe having one of those things could alleviate
the loss of this in the future. Well, let's get
to those phone lines. Less is on our phone line
four two five five eight eleven ten. Hey, Les, what
do you think about this?
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Well, yeah, I don't know about the conservation part of it,
but we spent a few miserable years in the stadium
and we didn't score touchdowns very quickly, and so people
held on to the balloons. And then and then our
first score happened to be a field goal, and we
(14:13):
all said, well, that's not balloon worthy. So then we
thought after the first score, an alternative would be just
play the song come a Running boys.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, so less that's a good point. What were they obscuring?
Like people are hanging on to them? But I'm sure
like the balloons are obscuring, like in the student section,
the kids that are a little higher in the student
section probably couldn't see much of anything. Well, everybody was
holding onto their balloons.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
Right, Yeah, a lot of kids held on a lot
of kids held on to their balloons. And then a
lot of kids waited too long and their balloon went
up in the air before it was ready. And then they.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Cried, yeahh there you go.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Hey, look look and this is this is good. This
is why we from this out. I wouldn't even thought
about this how long. Maybe sometimes it would have taken
in the old days, maybe even you know, you're get
in a defensive battle. These days, you could be holding
onto that thing for you know, a full quarter or
a quarter and a half or a full half of football.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It's interesting, it's an interesting thing.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
To be thinking about because you're still holding on to
it in the middle of the stadium. It's pretty interesting.
Let's thanks for the call.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
You bet.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Kevin's on her phone line, Kevin, Welcome to the show.
You're with Memory on news radio eleven to ten kfa B.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Well, thanks for taking my call, Amory.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah, I'm going to speak to what I see as
a hypocrisy, the people that don't want to release the balloons,
the shame ones that don't want the windmills out there
because they kill birds. I assume that you all do
not eat fried chicken or turkey on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
You've never had a.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Cornersh hen and who determines when an animal is shooting
up to eat and shooting up to preserve.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
So, I used to have fed up with.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
The left hipocrisy because they're always showing animals to say
we can't do it because an animal might die. Animals
were put there to feed human in the story.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yeah, no, so, Kevin, I don't disagree with what you're
saying in general. You know, I'm a meet eating person myself.
You know, I think there's a way to you know,
care about the environment and conservation while also being realistic
about our farm industry, and you know, the needs of
a human anatomy, and there's no doubt about that. And
I've watched several animals also, you know, ambush other animals
(16:21):
and kill it right in front of my eyes in
the wild, So you know, you know, I don't know
if anybody's telling those snakes that they shouldn't be eating
that very cute little mouse, you know what I mean.
But I guess my point though, Kevin, is, if we're
talking about traditions specifically, right, if we're going to kind
of like lean into this helium balloon plastic balloon thing,
(16:43):
it seems this seems like there's like the positive is
we get to watch a bunch of balloons release and
we call it a tradition in Nebraska. Is that a
good enough tradition to pollute you know, the grounds or
is it a good enough tradition to pollute you know,
farmland and have you know, cattle hooking on them, expistigating
themselves on them.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I don't Again, I don't.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Know absolutely it is okay, I don't think those ballues
create enough of a environmental hazard, especially not when you
consider how many plastic bags gets trotted out of a
grocery store every fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
That's another good point. That's another good point there, Kevin. Hey,
this is why I farm this out. I like hearing
these perspectives. Thanks for listening to our show today.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Hey, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Amory.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Absolutely, absolutely, this is the kind of good stuff. That's
the conversation since we like having that stuff. Four two, five, five, eight, eleven,
ten And we got Mike on the line. Hello, Mike,
welcome to the show today. What do you think about this?
Speaker 9 (17:34):
Who's going on? Emory?
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Hey say, I so?
Speaker 9 (17:38):
Does anybody had anybody figured out yet whether those balloons
are actually biodegradable?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I've spent the entire uh, I spent the entire commercial
break kind of looking for confirmation on that. I haven't
seen that confirmed by a reputabil bull source.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
I mean, I will say I love the balloon. No,
it's just a cool thing when we score our first
touchdown or whatever. But I'd always assumed that, you know,
we just you know, we're not going to send up
a bunch of late tex balloons and you know, whatever
string is attached to them, you know that isn't biodegradable. Yeah,
(18:19):
I'm No, I'm no conservationists, but I would expect we
would at least do that, because even if animals were
put on the planet to feed humans, we don't kill
unnecessarily either.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah, well we try not to. That certainly doesn't necessarily
speak for you know, everybody out there. But I did
see the only thing that I did see that had
this in it was a post by a page called
Husker Football Nation. In the top comment there says the
balloons are biodegradable. It's from a random person. I don't
know if this is legitimate. How much of an impact
will this balloon release having the environment? Absolutely none. A
(18:54):
test li Sedan is a bigger threat to the environment
than this balloon release. But again that's a that's a person,
not Nebraska. I'm not one hundred percent sure. I'm still
trying the best that I can't to find people say
it's biodegradable. So it's it's a good point, Mike. I
wish I had more information to confirm or deny that.
(19:14):
But if they are biodegradable, uh, that certainly changes I
think the complexion of the conversation.
Speaker 9 (19:19):
For sure, I appreciate it. Hey, one other thing, Yeah,
my house was funny as hell.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Okay, fine, Matt, you had a good joke. People liked them.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
A house joke, I got you, all right, funny stuff,
all right, thanks Mike, appreciate coing in.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
All right, that's a that's good. Yeah, So there you go.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I also had an email, for whatever it's worth, another
person saying that the apartment joke was a good one too.
So there, there you go. You have two people saying
that you had funny jokes there.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Man, I thought so too. I thought I thought I
was cooking with some sauce in the apartment. Yeah, I'm
telling you my apartment. And we got ourselves in an
apartment down there, and like, oh stop, he's nineteen years old.
Let him do what he wants.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
It.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Will You mentioned something it wouldn't surprise me, Like get
the Halloween season, and Nebraska's like climbing in the rankings
and they still you know, like undefeated or one loss
or whatever, and people start getting a little more familiar
with Dylan Riyola. Wouldn't shock you. You see him like
Papa into one of those you know, state farm commercials
with Patty. Don't you think I think that could? I mean,
let's get that happening for sure. Yeah, like cosplay Mahomes
(20:26):
is like, you're not Patrick Mahomes and it's just like,
oh no, this is my minime or whatever, you know,
like and you can elevate the Dylan Royola brand doing
it that way too. Yeah, we'll get to more calls here.
We got Wayne, We got done. And is that Lieutenant Dan?
It sure is, wow, Lieutenant Dan, you got legs, Lieutenant Dan.
We'll take those calls coming up next. And if you
(20:46):
want to call in about this balloon release, you to
talk about maybe you know, potential alternative traditions that you
think could stick that are unique to Nebraska, we'll talk
about it. Call us at four h two five five
eight eleven ten News Radio eleven ten kafab.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Marie Songer on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
In that regard, of course, the balloon release, however, they
are houted to be biodegradable according to this this is
a Sports Illustrated article. However, they don't magically go away.
In fact, they said in twenty eighteen there was a
Huskers balloon somehow it was found on a beach in
New York. It landed on a beach in New York
(21:26):
and you know, for whatever that's worth, again, it's a
little bit of a weird thing to be talking about here, because, yeah,
one of the odds that you know, these random late
text balloons when they land, are going to just be
eaten by an animal, and that's how that animal meets
its end. I don't know. I don't know the answer
to that question. I do know that it seems like
a preventable thing. And this person who wrote this article,
(21:47):
which by the way, is Dave Fight I think is
his name, he said that there was a poll that
was taken about from the Athletic Department over the twenty
twenty one to twenty two winter asking fans to rate
their satisfaction with game to elements and traditions, and apparently
the balloon release was tied for least popular with come
(22:08):
a Running Boys. Now, I don't know who they were asking,
but apparently the balloon release wasn't that popular even a
couple of years ago. Well, I'm getting your thoughts on it.
You can call in it for two, five, five, eight,
eleven ten. We got Wayne on the line. Wayne, welcome
to the show today.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Hey, thanks for taking my call. I'm not sure about
that ball, but they evidently didn't send it out to
ticket holders because he's and ticket holders, because I don't
remember that one, and I'm usually pretty good about answering
their survey.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, he didn't.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
He didn't say exactly when who was asked about that. Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
So, yeah, you kind of took what I was gonna say.
They are bi already gradeable about twenty years for the
last couple of decades before they finally shut it down.
You know, the environmental groups been on it. They said, okay,
we'll go and biodegradable then, and that seemed to take
that argument away until COVID and the health care and
(23:00):
they came around with the helium thing, and that's the
one that kind of pretty much sunk it in my opinion.
But anyway, I'm a I'm a big balloon man myself.
The first first season, after they got away with them,
we went down to Party City and got our own balloons,
took them up there, and I had my kids walking
with me and they were behind me in line, and
(23:21):
next thing I know them up at the gate and
I turned around and where the hecks all my kids?
They abandoned me. They said he's going to get thrown
out of here because we had balloons, and no, they
let us in. And of course we've been letting balloons
go every time we go to the game ever since.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Yeah, no, that's I got to tell you.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
When I went to the opening game against UTAP right,
and again I'm kind of oblivious to the tradition itself,
there were still you know, I would say probably twenty
balloons in the stadium that were released, so people brought
them in and nobody seemed to tell him they couldn't,
so you know, whatever that's worth.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
Six were ours.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Yeah, there you go. Now that's I know where you're
sit now, Wayne, So look out. Hey, thanks for the call, Buddy.
Don's on the phone line four O two five five,
eight eleven ten. What do you think about all this?
Speaker 10 (24:05):
Don, I'm a sixty year Husker fan and I've always
loved the balloon release, even when I was a little kid.
And using the logic these people are that these balloons
kill animals. Yeah, are we going to ban all cars
(24:27):
then because they killed deer, rabbits, squirrels, even human.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (24:34):
One more, one more, one more thing? What are we
going to do about my condo.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Okay, all right, I get it. Everybody liked the joke. Congratulations, Matt,
you got one.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
You got that?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, okay, all right, fair enough, don Thanks for the call.
But Lieutenant Dan is on the line of I don't
know where this is going to go. Lieutenant Dan, welcome
to the show. What do you think?
Speaker 11 (24:59):
Hey, to talk to you bad thing. I'd have legs,
but they've had about eighty birthdays. Other than that, they're
doing good.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Hey, you sound great, Lieutenant Dan.
Speaker 11 (25:06):
I got a great idea. Okay, put a free runs
of Sandy's Chupon and about every tenth balloon that way
up to the game, people would go out in all
the country and pick up the balloons looking for the coupons.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Hey, there you go.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Now you're talking. That's that's not too bad. Not too
bad of an idea that you got there, Lieutenant Dan.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Thanks for calling in, all right.
Speaker 11 (25:25):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
All right? What are you doing here? I told you
i'd be your first mate. Well here I am. I'm
a man of my word, but I won't be calling
you sir. That's my bout. Yeah, No, great movie. I
just wish there was audio that could represent the wave
that Forrest does when he sees Lieutenant Diane that wave, man.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yeah, that's a wave, and he abandons the boat, which
eventually comes back around and crashes. We don't he doesn't
really have to pay for that damage, though, because he's
the only shrimping boat that ended up survive in that
one storm that one time. Remember that due It wasn't
Wasn't it just a little bit weird that he didn't
actually like lend a hant any of his shrimping boat
pals that were lost in that hurricane. Oh don't you
(26:12):
think a nice guy like like Forrest Gump would have just,
you know, helped out the industry a little bit incentive
monopolizing it. Let's cancel Forrest Gump. Yeah, he'd be canceled today,
that's for sure. Hey, Joe, real quick on the phones
four two, five, five, eight, eleven ten.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
What do you think, Joe?
Speaker 12 (26:27):
Yeah, hey quick, hitter balloons are so eighteen ninety and
seventy seventy one and ninety four ninety five. And just
like and Lieutenant Dan had a great idea. But take
it further and I'll.
Speaker 9 (26:42):
Mark this seat.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
This is to day I gave the athletic.
Speaker 12 (26:44):
Department a great idea, sell drones with protected propellers and
have the company out of Norfolk that does the drone
shows sell They can sell the drones ten dollars pop
fifty thousand people by a drone, that's five hundred dollars
in the athletics departments, and they randomly picked ten thrones
(27:06):
and they win tickets to.
Speaker 9 (27:08):
The next game.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
So it's like it's a contest to pop a bunch
of these balloons as they exit the stadium. Interesting, All right, Joe,
you're onto something, You're onto something. Let's uh, we'll we'll
circle back to this. Thanks for the call. Yeah, all right,
if you want to call in, we got more calls
coming in four oh two, five, five, eight eleven ten.
Four oh two, five, five, eight eleven ten. We'll keep
(27:30):
this conversation a roll. And what do you think about
the balloon tradition, the balloon release tradition, which made a
reappearance this past weekend after a couple of years of
being gone by the wayside.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
We'll take your.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Calls on it, and if you have an idea for
an alternative tradition, we'll talk about that too. Stick around
four oh two, five, five, eight eleven ten's that number
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