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Nebraska Cornhuskers

College
5x Champion:
1970, 1971, 1994, 1995, 1997


opened 1923
renovated and expaned 1964, 1965, 1966, 1972, 1998, 2006

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i always thought it looked strange

The oddest (or most unique) thing is how much farther back the seats in the endzones go. It's a bit counter-intuitive when most football stadiums try to maximize sideline seats. I have a feeling that the small upper decks on the sidelines were built rather early and the easy expansion was to add more seats at the top of the endzones.

Hell yeah!!! Great stadium, how many consecutive sold outs??? Although this stadium needs another update so it can hold up another 10,000 at least (sideline seats). The big red stadium has the best and most knowledgable fans in all college football.

O MY GOD! do we have to see every stadium in the country? If you wanted to make this easier, make a College Football Stadium thread.

Man, someone has WAYYY to much time on there hands

If you wanted to make this easier, make a College Football Stadium thread.

They did have one big one thread before, but there were way to many discussions going on in that one thread. It was chaos and died out very quickly since people who were interested in parts but not all of it. I think this allows for much better discussion of stadium specific topics.

So yeah keep up the good work, Sercan! :rock: Honestly, if it's too much, I think a sub-forum for college football would work too.

They did have one big one before, but there were way to many discussions going on in that one thread. It was chaos and died out very quickly since people who were interested in parts but not all of it. I think this allows for much better discussion of stadium specific topics.

So yeah keep up the good work, Sercan! :rock: Honestly, if it's too much, I think a sub-forum for college football would work too.

agreed, i see stadiums from around the world all the time, nothing wrong with seeing some from home...and they seem to impress people not from here :)

Just look at the skyscrapers in this forum ;)
And there are much more skyscrapers in the World.

But no panic, i will not post all US satdiums. Only the big ones +60k
Its your fault that you have so many big ones :D

My God those endzones are huge

maybe bigger than Südtribüne in Dortmund?

The large one might be able to seat 25,000, certainly larger phisically than the Sudtribune, but it's not a terrace.

Just look at the skyscrapers in this forum ;)
And there are much more skyscrapers in the World.

But no panic, i will not post all US satdiums. Only the big ones +60k
Its your fault that you have so many big ones :D

Dude, your new threads are really annoying. If you wanna post all 60+k stadiums in the world, go ahead, but don't do it here. What do you want us to say about all them??? You don't even have anything interesting to say about them...

Just look at the skyscrpers pages in this forum ;)

I've been to a game here (Kansas vs Nebraska This season) and it was absolutely amazing. My seats were in the 92nd row (but hey they were free), but I still felt close to the action. While the capacity is listed at 81,067, the announced attendance was over 86,000 and I asked a Nebraska fan next to me and he told me they are usually in the 86,000 range. The fans are very knowledgeable, but also pretty annoying. Up in the 92nd row I was making noise and they yelled at me that the players couldn't hear me, then proceeded to make noise themselves on defense. It was pretty funny.

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was the 92nd row the last one?

The stand at the end is amazing.

was the 92nd row the last one?

No, and that's the amazing thing. There were 99 rows in the section I was sitting in.

Those end zones are overkill you can't even see ball if the made a kick. I guess the reaction of the crowed would let you now if it was good. In the positive side is as a nice view doh. But not much use if you wanna actually see the game. So was this a cheap expansion? should they have built tiers instead?

Those end zones are overkill you can't even see ball if the made a kick. I guess the reaction of the crowed would let you now if it was good. In the positive side is as a nice view doh. But not much use if you wanna actually see the game. So was this a cheap expansion? should they have built tiers instead?

Trust me, I was in the 92nd of 99 rows and I still could see everything. Because there are no breaks in the seating, I was still very close to the field even though I was way in the back. The pictures are very deceiving in that sense.

Those end zones are overkill you can't even see ball if the made a kick. I guess the reaction of the crowed would let you now if it was good. In the positive side is as a nice view doh. But not much use if you wanna actually see the game. So was this a cheap expansion? should they have built tiers instead?

Im sure you can see just fine...it only looks like overkill compared to the rest of the stadium

Thread hasn't seen any action in a few years.. I happened to be in Lincoln last summer and got some pictures and figured I'd share.

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tucked up under the stands..
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I have a few others as well.. may upload them one day.

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They are currently expanding the east side, which will open for the 2013 season

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They are currently expanding the east side, which will open for the 2013 season

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Which side is east?

Which side is east?

the side without the pressbox is East. My first picture.

$56m for roughly 5,000 seats, increasing the listed capacity to 86,000

I have always found this stadium to be strange, because it looks like a majority of the seats are in the endzone. Does anybody know how many of the 81,000 seats are beyond the goal line?

3d rendering of East expansion:

http://www.huskerz.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/EastStadium.jpg

Excavation has already begun:

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I never realized how good this stadium looked.

I have always found this stadium to be strange, because it looks like a majority of the seats are in the endzone. Does anybody know how many of the 81,000 seats are beyond the goal line?
According to the Wikipedia entry for the stadium, the original construction only involved the stands on both sidelines, and had a capacity of 31,080. Even allowing for luxury boxes and the new construction, it seems like less than 50% of the seats are between the end lines.

On a side note, my dad was from Nebraska, but never attended the university. He left to join the navy at 18, served three years in the Korean War, and stayed in the Bay Area when he got out, but always remained a fan of the football team. We took a vacation back to his hometown of Omaha in 1972, and drove by the stadium on the way. One of the end zone expansions was going on, and I took a bunch of pix with my cheap little instamatic. When he died several years ago, I was going through his stuff, and found that he had kept copies of some of those pictures I had taken more than 30 years earlier. Unfortunately for this group the pictures were of poor quality to start with, and the years had not been kind to them. I remember that from the outside it reminded me of Kezar Stadium more than anyplace else. But at the time the only other stadiums that I had seen were Stanford, Candlestick and the Oakland Coliseum.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Cornhuskers
Division I-A college football
National Champions 1970-1971-1994-1995-1997
Becomes third-largest "city" in Nebraska on game days.
317 straight sell-outs, every game since 1962

Note: all photos are my own

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Anya & Grant, my little Husker fans
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-hJUA4aub6HI/Tplg8Q2_0SI/AAAAAAAAAO8/JebcAC5zOvs/s720/mdowntownlincoln093011_9370.jpg

Every game sold out since 1962? However did I get in? Let's just say I had the best seats in the house.
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From press box
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Students getting in early
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There's downtown Lincoln, with the State Capitol:
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120-foot HD jumbotron
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Ohio State vs Nebraska, our first Big Ten home game!
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_LUB_QSJa1A/Tplf3fusRhI/AAAAAAAAAKo/C6oup-oMC3c/s720/mbuckeyesvshuskers100811_0563.JPG

And the band begins to play
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Out of my way, I'm trying to shoot a game here
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HYa7reXWFzw/TplgN7pq7JI/AAAAAAAAAL4/tGZ5Ds88g5k/s512/mbuckeyesvshuskers100811_0697.jpg

And here come the Huskers!
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Another sellout.
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Here's a few game shots. (Sports 'n' More is my company name, I'm showing these for fun):
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https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_cigqKxoSFs/TpldXW3upRI/AAAAAAAAAag/FVUycw_iExs/s512/mbuckeyesvshuskers100811_0112.jpg

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-bWFZsk5w0sA/TpldTbuZ4II/AAAAAAAAAag/eIYtWsPiddM/s512/mbuckeyesvshuskers100811_0069.jpg

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-OC4ZKXafkjM/Tpld07V_qHI/AAAAAAAAAag/OoxHEhmGJwg/s512/buckeyesvshuskers100811_9613.jpg

Nebraska, down 27-6, rallied to win 34-27. Awesome game!

Full disclosure: Here's how I really took the photos:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a7teNt6-hWU/TplgBTUW5RI/AAAAAAAAAcs/SfNuSc_5Vsk/s720/mbuckeyesvshuskers100811_0632.jpg

Ending with a panorama of 7 photos:
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thread already exists (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=643433)

Here's some Memorial Stadium pictures from a different angle: on the sidelines!

Note: all photos are my own

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Anya & Grant, my little Husker fans
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-hJUA4aub6HI/Tplg8Q2_0SI/AAAAAAAAAO8/JebcAC5zOvs/s720/mdowntownlincoln093011_9370.jpg

Every game sold out since 1962? However did I get in? Let's just say I had the best seats in the house.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-rySUq0Pp_wU/TplhZWVBQ7I/AAAAAAAAAQw/ZpO8ymDluYk/s512/BigRedAsst.jpg

From press box
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Students getting in early
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There's downtown Lincoln, with the State Capitol:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-b33Pf_0QuiI/TplhL_a5cTI/AAAAAAAAAQA/C60gGQSu6Ao/s720/mbuckeyesvshuskers100811_0494.JPG

120-foot HD jumbotron
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-8P3Ya02Qow0/TplhsY62h_I/AAAAAAAAAR0/B6HxuRfnbkg/s720/mbuckeyesvshuskers100811_0504.JPG

Ohio State vs Nebraska, our first Big Ten home game!
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_LUB_QSJa1A/Tplf3fusRhI/AAAAAAAAAKo/C6oup-oMC3c/s720/mbuckeyesvshuskers100811_0563.JPG

And the band begins to play
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Out of my way, I'm trying to shoot a game here
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HYa7reXWFzw/TplgN7pq7JI/AAAAAAAAAL4/tGZ5Ds88g5k/s512/mbuckeyesvshuskers100811_0697.jpg

And here come the Huskers!
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-1OQSGMtvMW8/TplgsSghvvI/AAAAAAAAAN4/WgWOoZ31AbU/s512/buckeyesvshuskers100811_9084.JPG

Another sellout.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-MOyx9y0dbTw/Tplgu9TP6zI/AAAAAAAAAOE/kLPzjLLwQAg/s720/IMG_1201.jpg

Here's a few game shots. (Sports 'n' More is my company name, I'm showing these for fun):
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7FfBBZ6naPQ/TpldL1jaBfI/AAAAAAAAAag/ReB-rtjirrA/s512/mbuckeyesvshuskers100811_0006.jpg

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_cigqKxoSFs/TpldXW3upRI/AAAAAAAAAag/FVUycw_iExs/s512/mbuckeyesvshuskers100811_0112.jpg

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-bWFZsk5w0sA/TpldTbuZ4II/AAAAAAAAAag/eIYtWsPiddM/s512/mbuckeyesvshuskers100811_0069.jpg

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-OC4ZKXafkjM/Tpld07V_qHI/AAAAAAAAAag/OoxHEhmGJwg/s512/buckeyesvshuskers100811_9613.jpg

Nebraska, down 27-6, rallied to win 34-27. Awesome game!

Full disclosure: Here's how I really took the photos:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a7teNt6-hWU/TplgBTUW5RI/AAAAAAAAAcs/SfNuSc_5Vsk/s720/mbuckeyesvshuskers100811_0632.jpg

Ending with a panorama of 7 photos:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-xqKj-6h0cLk/TpliF1mlo5I/AAAAAAAAAUQ/kC7nyIpDzbI/s2000/Stadium%252520Pano%252520b.jpg

thread already exists (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=643433)

Thanks, moved my pics there.

July 24 update:

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From knapplc on the Huskerboard.com forum:

http://s10.postimage.org/isz5rb4ex/DSCF4193.jpg (http://postimage.org/)

http://s10.postimage.org/fan5ux3ix/DSCF4210.jpg (http://postimage.org/)

http://s10.postimage.org/g1fw0p5w9/upperseats1117.jpg (http://postimage.org/)

http://www.huskerboard.com/index.php?/topic/47077-stadium-expansion/page__view__findpost__p__1068961

Man, I wonder how many feet in the air, from field level, that last row in the upper deck is going to be.

Overall, I really like this expansion.

Reminds me of the Mount Davis structure at the O.co Coliseum in Oakland.

Seems like it's going to be a pretty intimidating place to play with that expansion.

What is the facade made out of? Just wondering, can't tell exactly...

I max of precast concrete and brick panels with glass to come, like most other college stadiums of late.

Great stadium !

New video update on YouTube:

http://youtu.be/3HpWlVJDjGg

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