For Christmas morning my dad got me tickets for Nebrasketball’s game at Rutgers, two rows behind where Tim Miles and the assistant coaches sit. If you look at the title picture of this article, my dad is in the red sweatshirt, and you can see my hair right over Miles’s right shoulder.
When I sat down in my seats, you couldn’t tell fans apart, everyone wore red. The first time I could tell someone apart was when a Rutgers fan came up to me and commented on the state of Nebraska sports, “first football team doesn’t do well, and now the this.