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If you know me well, you know that fall - primarily football season - is one of my favorite times of the year.

My family has a long-standing relationship with Husker football. Before the ‘rents married, Dad purchased box seats, near the field of Memorial Stadium.

He didn’t miss a game.

Once they were hitched, they became season ticket holders and since 1955, someone from our family could be found sitting in our west stadium seats.

Dad always said he should have requested four tickets instead of a single pair. As teens, Laurie and I sat wherever our single game tickets landed. Usually we ended...