-Isms: Views on life in rural America

It’s time to go bowling ... and I’m not talking about rolling an eight-pound Columbia 300.

I haven’t been to a bowl game since 1981. That’s a 43-year drought where I’ve had to watch bowl games from afar or, gasp, suffer without a post-season game for the ‘Skers. So stop complaining because it has been eight years since our boys of fall last competed in late December. Forty-three is almost half a century. That’s ... old.

Saturday’s Husker win over the stinkin’ Wiscy Badgers secured a bowl bid. I’ve read countless complaints about students and fans storming the field after the 44-25 victory, que...