FULMER CUP: HUSKER DOS, DON’TS, TICKETS
Play the theme song, of course.
Nebraska junior linebacker Nick Covey received a ticket for underage possession of alcohol at a scene recognizable to anyone who’s ever hosted an open party one expects say, oh, thirty people to show up for:
Officer Katie Flood said when police arrived to that party, the music could be heard from the sidewalk and more than 75 people were inside. Empty beer cans littered the home.
Ah, yes. Covey receives one point, added to the Huskers’ tally in the Fulmer Cup. The only other player involved in the incident that we know who isn’t already draft-entered and leaving Nebraska is Mike Smith, who received the finest charge we’ve seen in a while:
Smith was accused of maintaining a disorderly house, and Purify and Martin of being inmates of a disorderly house.
We’ve been looking for some way to describe our view of existence for a long time. O, the irony of finding the right words at last writ in the prosaic civil codes of Nebraska! Oh, and two more points for Nebraska.

My, that got out of hand quickly. And where did the boat come from?









1
Chuck says:
I go to UNL and have been to Mike Smith’s house. It’s deserving of a crime.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
2
Rob says:
Time to see what Bolini’s disciplinary measures are made of… Christensen got punked with a $500,000 bail for his little digital discovery incident.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
3
Oren Incandenza says:
I wish every Fulmer Cup posted included the theme song link. I’m tired of having to search for it when I need a hit of Orson’s songwriting.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
4
Carlinthemarlin says:
“My, that got out of hand quickly. And where did the boat come from?”
I just keep imagining will Ferrell saying this in a burgundy blazer and blue striped tie with that impeccable mustache…has he been featured on mustache Wednesday? Because he should be.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
5
Brian says:
How did I miss that Fulmer cup song before. Its absolutely MAGICAL.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
6
Oren Incandenza says:
Thanks Orson. Of course, right after I wrote that comment, it occurred to me to load it onto my iPod, which also includes the Lee Corso Slo Jam and the Poinsettia Bowl theme.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
7
Kahuna says:
At first I thought that was a pic of an upper-middle class neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, but then I remembered that anything that even vaguely resembles a watercraft, seaworthy or not, has already set sail from Haiti. Therefore, I’m going to guess Guinea-Bissau.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
8
Chuckles says:
Actually Covey was at a different party. Current defensive lineman Ben Martin was the other “inmate”.
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=1200&u_sid=10280109
March 11th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
9
ThreenOut says:
5 i was thinking the same thing… i’ve been on here for years and never heard that funky music by a white boy
March 11th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
10
Brian says:
Haiti/Biloxi same difference.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
11
Jeff says:
Yeah, but now Pelini has the Husker WALK-ON program up and running again! National Championships, here we come!
March 11th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
12
Cincy says:
Are all of Nebraska’s Fulmer Cup entries filed under “Drunk White Women”?…
or is that just the defense?
March 11th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
13
Chips O'Toole says:
What are the chances that some of the partygoers mistakenly thought Officer Katie Flood’s knock at the door meant that the evening’s “entertainment” had arrived?
March 11th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
14
Brian says:
#12 – not too many ever since Durham, NC probably put a damper on “in home performances.”
March 11th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
15
Pogue Mahon says:
I demand a recount. According to the article, 3 current players, Covey, Smith, and Martin, were ticketed. http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2008/03/11/huskerextra/football/doc47d59dfc93d8c735385811.txt 3 current players should = 3 points.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
16
Because They Can says:
Back off, Huskers! Underage possession of alcohol is UGA’s turf. But it does sound like a proper college party: “Hey, Officer Bob, I thought you said you didn’t want to have to come down here again.” (stolen from J. Foxworthy)
That theme music is sweet, funky whiteboy reverb at its richest.
March 11th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
17
Knowshon says:
I may be wrong but I feel the Police Departments of college towns should spend more time protecting students from car jackings, robberies, and murders than arresting 19 and 20 year olds for drinking beer. But then again I may be wrong.
March 11th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
18
Land of Os(borne) says:
17
Car-jackings? Murders? In Lincoln?!?!
March 11th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
19
the croominator says:
Southern Miss makes the board:
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080311/SPORTS030104/80311037
Appropriate enough…growing up, it was told that Ole Miss did cocaine and bourbon, State drank PBR and moonshine, but the Burg was all about the ganja.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
20
Creepy Uncle Chester and His Amazing Edible Aqua Dots says:
Damn. Bootsy Collins career sure has fallen of since P-Funk disbanded. No offense, Orson.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
21
carlinthemarlin says:
There’s murders in Lincoln, but they’re generally not the random, gun point robbery kind you get in bigger cities. That being said, everyone one of them in the last year or so has occurred within 5 blocks of my apartment.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
22
meatybob says:
“prosaic”
Can you please refrain from using words I don’t know. Some of us are nerd engineers you know.
March 12th, 2008 at 9:01 am
23
Big Ten Joe says:
Oh, I thought this thread was going to be about Husker Du. (How do I get umlauts to show up in these comments, anyway)?
March 12th, 2008 at 10:41 am
24
M says:
You have to understand Lincoln, the city and its cops HATE the university and everything related to it. Expect of course all the income generated from it.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
25
The Duke of Wazzu says:
BT Joe: Like this?
Hüsker Dü
Hint: cut n’ paste!
(hopefully it works)
March 12th, 2008 at 9:52 pm