FULMER CUP: HUSKER DOS, DON'TS, TICKETS

by Orson on Mar 11, 2008 1:05 PM EDT

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?

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I go to UNL and have been to Mike Smith’s house. It’s deserving of a crime.

by Chuck on Mar 11, 2008 1:14 PM EDT reply actions

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.

by Rob on Mar 11, 2008 1:19 PM EDT reply actions

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.

by Oren Incandenza on Mar 11, 2008 1:23 PM EDT reply actions

“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.

by Carlinthemarlin on Mar 11, 2008 1:34 PM EDT reply actions

How did I miss that Fulmer cup song before. Its absolutely MAGICAL.

by Brian on Mar 11, 2008 1:45 PM EDT reply actions

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.

by Oren Incandenza on Mar 11, 2008 1:51 PM EDT reply actions

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.

by Kahuna on Mar 11, 2008 1:52 PM EDT reply actions

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

by Chuckles on Mar 11, 2008 1:55 PM EDT reply actions

5 i was thinking the same thing… i’ve been on here for years and never heard that funky music by a white boy

by ThreenOut on Mar 11, 2008 2:02 PM EDT reply actions

Haiti/Biloxi same difference.

by Brian on Mar 11, 2008 2:11 PM EDT reply actions

Yeah, but now Pelini has the Husker WALK-ON program up and running again! National Championships, here we come!

by Jeff on Mar 11, 2008 2:33 PM EDT reply actions

Are all of Nebraska’s Fulmer Cup entries filed under “Drunk White Women”?…

or is that just the defense?

by Cincy on Mar 11, 2008 2:34 PM EDT reply actions

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?

by Chips O'Toole on Mar 11, 2008 2:53 PM EDT reply actions

- not too many ever since Durham, NC probably put a damper on “in home performances.”

by Brian on Mar 11, 2008 2:59 PM EDT reply actions

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.

by Pogue Mahon on Mar 11, 2008 3:24 PM EDT reply actions

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.

by Because They Can on Mar 11, 2008 4:39 PM EDT reply actions

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.

by Knowshon on Mar 11, 2008 4:51 PM EDT reply actions

Car-jackings? Murders? In Lincoln?!?!

by Land of Os(borne) on Mar 11, 2008 6:45 PM EDT reply actions

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.

by the croominator on Mar 11, 2008 9:34 PM EDT reply actions

Damn. Bootsy Collins career sure has fallen of since P-Funk disbanded. No offense, Orson.

by Creepy Uncle Chester and His Amazing Edible Aqua Dots on Mar 11, 2008 10:40 PM EDT reply actions

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.

by carlinthemarlin on Mar 11, 2008 10:46 PM EDT reply actions

“prosaic”

Can you please refrain from using words I don’t know. Some of us are nerd engineers you know.

by meatybob on Mar 12, 2008 10:01 AM EDT reply actions

Oh, I thought this thread was going to be about Husker Du. (How do I get umlauts to show up in these comments, anyway)?

by Big Ten Joe on Mar 12, 2008 11:41 AM EDT reply actions

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.

by M on Mar 12, 2008 1:00 PM EDT reply actions