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
I go to UNL and have been to Mike Smith’s house. It’s deserving of a crime.
Comment by Chuck — March 11, 2008 @ 12:14 pm
2
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.
Comment by Rob — March 11, 2008 @ 12:19 pm
3
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.
Comment by Oren Incandenza — March 11, 2008 @ 12:23 pm
4
“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.
Comment by Carlinthemarlin — March 11, 2008 @ 12:34 pm
5
How did I miss that Fulmer cup song before. Its absolutely MAGICAL.
Comment by Brian — March 11, 2008 @ 12:45 pm
6
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.
Comment by Oren Incandenza — March 11, 2008 @ 12:51 pm
7
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.
Comment by Kahuna — March 11, 2008 @ 12:52 pm
8
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
Comment by Chuckles — March 11, 2008 @ 12:55 pm
9
5 i was thinking the same thing… i’ve been on here for years and never heard that funky music by a white boy
Comment by ThreenOut — March 11, 2008 @ 1:02 pm
10
Haiti/Biloxi same difference.
Comment by Brian — March 11, 2008 @ 1:11 pm
11
Yeah, but now Pelini has the Husker WALK-ON program up and running again! National Championships, here we come!
Comment by Jeff — March 11, 2008 @ 1:33 pm
12
Are all of Nebraska’s Fulmer Cup entries filed under “Drunk White Women”?…
or is that just the defense?
Comment by Cincy — March 11, 2008 @ 1:34 pm
13
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?
Comment by Chips O'Toole — March 11, 2008 @ 1:53 pm
14
#12 - not too many ever since Durham, NC probably put a damper on “in home performances.”
Comment by Brian — March 11, 2008 @ 1:59 pm
15
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.
Comment by Pogue Mahon — March 11, 2008 @ 2:24 pm
16
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.
Comment by Because They Can — March 11, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
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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.
Comment by Knowshon — March 11, 2008 @ 3:51 pm
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17
Car-jackings? Murders? In Lincoln?!?!
Comment by Land of Os(borne) — March 11, 2008 @ 5:45 pm
19
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.
Comment by the croominator — March 11, 2008 @ 8:34 pm
20
Damn. Bootsy Collins career sure has fallen of since P-Funk disbanded. No offense, Orson.
Comment by Creepy Uncle Chester and His Amazing Edible Aqua Dots — March 11, 2008 @ 9:40 pm
21
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.
Comment by carlinthemarlin — March 11, 2008 @ 9:46 pm
22
“prosaic”
Can you please refrain from using words I don’t know. Some of us are nerd engineers you know.
Comment by meatybob — March 12, 2008 @ 9:01 am
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Oh, I thought this thread was going to be about Husker Du. (How do I get umlauts to show up in these comments, anyway)?
Comment by Big Ten Joe — March 12, 2008 @ 10:41 am
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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.
Comment by M — March 12, 2008 @ 12:00 pm
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BT Joe: Like this?
Hüsker Dü
Hint: cut n’ paste!
(hopefully it works)
Comment by The Duke of Wazzu — March 12, 2008 @ 9:52 pm