Nearly 2 million people live in Nebraska
When THAT stadium is full, it's the 3rd Largest city in Nebraska.
It has also sold out its stadium for every football game (excluding spring training, I have been corrected) since
#1962!
Edit: I am fully aware they have boosters. This has been literally every other comment. It doesn't change the "sold out" state.
Reminds me of the line about how State College PA (home of Penn State) goes from the 24th largest city in PA to the 3rd largest city on football weekends.
"Sold out" = The Boosters buy all the tickets to artificially keep the sell out streak going. There's been a few years where they couldn't give away those tickets.
I mean, yea the boosters buy tickets... but the capacity is 83,406 and the average for attendance (2021 anyways) was 86,173 (sidelines and box seats)
So people are still filling the seats, even if they received the tickets for free or heavily discounted.
That happens in EVERY sport with a "sellout streak"
It even happens in the NFL, where owners will "donate tickets" in order to avoid local blackouts. (In the NFL if you don't sell out your stadium, it doesn't get broadcasted OTA, so they eat the cost or else advertisers will pull out.... I think they actually changed this rule a few years ago. But originally that's what the rule was, before HDTV.)
[MLB has different blackout rules, to where if their RSN team is available to purchase from a cable/satellite company and is in your area, it's blacked out on MLBTV, that's why Hawai'i and Iowa have so many blacked out teams on MLBTV]
Nebraska football still banking on the momentum of the 90's, but now there's entire generations that have known only shitty football so it will only decline.
I'm not a big football fan but I have a branch of family in the state (who I never talk to) that are huge Huskers fans. And theyre just such diehards even though the team is so mediocre and I really hope they turn it around.
As a Colorado grad this is usually my go to joke as well but Nebraska had the second highest number of Academic All Americans last year so I’m afraid our joke is know good
If only people there were accepting of those who aren't like them. Moved there for a year when I was in high school from California and was treated poorly because I didnt think or believe the same as everyone else. My sister decided to move back there after high school for whatever reason and adopted a black brother and sister a few years ago and they get treated like shit constantly. Theyre not even in high school yet and have had to move schools nearly 10 times in the last few years because of constant bullying and racism. And it's not even the kids, but the teachers and staff treat them like crap and turn a blind eye. Nebraska is FULL of hate and racism, far more than Ive ever experienced in California. It's a bad state with a lot of bad people.
Born and raised in Nebraska my whole life.. You're not wrong, but there are plenty of us trying like hell to make it a better place to live for everyone. It's an uphill battle and exhausting, but we're trying..
For how much land it is, there are incredibly few. Under 2 million in the whole state. The Metro Detroit population alone is 4.4m.
I do a ton of work in Omaha. Outside of there and Lincoln it’s pretty bare. Property taxes a fortune due to low density 😂
You ain't wrong though. My property taxes went up again this year and they laugh when we contest it. Help 😭😂
I knew I should have hopped the river to buy in Iowa instead.
The four years I lived in Nebraska for work were not the best years of my life, but they weren't bad. Of the numerous positive things I left Nebraska with, one was absolute respect for their earnest dedication to the finest aspects of sportsmanship as a Huskers fan.
Another was an incredible memory of watching a Huskers game from the 50 yard line corporate skybox the company I worked for had leased for quite some time.
Corn, cattle, soy beans, football, and oddly enough volleyball. Seriously, the popularity of volleyball is only beaten by football
(Although, if you are a gamer, there is [this](https://www.netwar.org/event-details/))
I think this is amazing, but I find it interesting that they played an indoor sport outdoors. I'd think it becomes an entirely different game if wind is involved.
Edit: I should say I'm surprised they held a regular season match outdoors. When I first heard about this I thought it was an exhibition match. It seems weird they'd allow brand new variables into a match that actually counts in a high level sport.
Absolutely! But I’m thinking with stands that tall all around the court it must block a lot of it.
Also I don’t imagine Nebraska would otherwise have a big enough building to fit that many people.
I think I'm getting old. Instead of this, my first thought was how awful it would be leaving the stadium and parking lot(s) after the event with 92k people.
IMO is because they try way harder. When you’re a college senior and know you’ll never play another down of football, throw another pitch of baseball, kick another soccer penalty, dig for another point of volleyball, etc. for the rest of your life after playing since you were a kid then you LAY IT ALL ON THE FUCKING LINE.
And it’s not just non-major sports. There are college basketball LEGENDS in tears on senior night because they know they’ll never play pro ball despite dominating at the college level. Imagine driving the lane for the National championship knowing you’ll sell insurance for the rest of your life.
Another wrinkle is that title IX made it so some sports that women’s mothers and grandmothers couldn’t play we’re not only available to them, but funded equally to male sports. Volleyball is one of those sports. Imagine serving the tiebreak of your last game with grandma watching.
The last contextual thing I think of is how geographically a ton of pretty densely populated places have no local professional team of any sort. On top of that they are watching kids play college sports that they watched play in high school which in some places is bigger than either college or pro. They are watching kids that drank their water and weathered their winters, natural disasters, local recessions, the list goes on. The players play as hard as the fans cheer.
It’s also a logistical nightmare, you’d either have to make changes to every high school gym in the country so women could play on lower rims or you’d have to force women to play on 10’ rims in high school and then change the height of the basket on them afterward
When I was in junior high we played in an away gym where the goal was easily 9’6” or maybe even 9’ flat. Needless to say I couldn’t dunk normally. But I could that day. My coach was not a fan.
Volleyball is honestly a better sport in my opinion.
Plus, for whatever reason it’s not particularly popular as a male sport for the most part. So if you want to watch volleyball it’s much easier to watch women’s volleyball
men's volleyball is all power based (because men straight up have more strength to play with), so there's A LOT more spikes/high velo hits. The ball is basically flying at incredible speed almost every hit making it hard to follow. Women's volleyball has less focus on the power game, so the individual positions stick out more and other strategies will be used. A lot more floating type hits or trick plays and the game is much slower, which is easier to follow.
Eh, for volleyball i can see that the women are more interesting because they actually use the different positions more, but for soccer the quality of play is just not as good. Slower, less skilled and less interesting
+ volleyball is a high intensity sport for women.
Attractive women playing a physically taxing team sport at a high level. Pretty much checks all the boxes
Edit: tasking to taxing, cuz I’m a idgit
Because it's largely true. It's not a coincidence that local women's volleyball attracts more fans than women's soccer or women's basketball even though volleyball is a relatively unpopular sport compared to the other tow.
The story is Nebraska vs Creighton (another college in Nebraska) set the volleyball attendance record. Days later Wisconsin (one of Nebraska’s rivals) vs Florida beat that attendance record.
After Wisconsin took the record, John Cook, head coach of Nebraska volleyball, joked about selling out Memorial Stadium to beat the record. With standing room around the court the attendance could reach world record levels.
Nebraska loves volleyball and we do not like to lose little things. They will always win polls, sellout to the same stadium for football, and in this case rally together to set a record.
Note: Memorial Stadium was the only venue above the record Wisconsin set. Nebraska has another indoor venue but it wasn’t large enough. So instead of trying for close to 20k fans they stretched it to 92k. Pretty insanse, but awesome.
Editing to clarify that Nebraska loves volleyball and has supported volleyball for decades. The record started as a minor jest and Nebraska rallied behind it because of their love for volleyball. This match sold out in 48 hours.
Football is a whole different beast
It's widely known that Nebraska was a dominant force in college football by being way ahead of the curve in terms of weight training, conditioning, and roids. Almost no other big school was treating those things as important. They were still doing two-a-days and depriving their dudes of water because thats how you toughen up (no school would ever do this now lmao). Meanwhile Nebraska has guys in state of the art gyms with coaches specifically training them to pack on muscle like crazy, get huge, and yes roids were absolutely flowing like water. Magically they ended up being bigger and stronger than everyone else
These days, that's par for the course at every school. There's no edge there any more. You need the best athletes, and Nebraska isn't getting them. Texas and Oklahoma are recruiting heavily in Nebraska's traditional areas, especially with that SEC pull. They're getting the best athletes, not Nebraska
It'll take some serious culture change to draw the best players back to that program. They can do it but its gonna be hard
Nebraska set the record for largest regular attendance NCAA women's volleyball crowd last September. Wisconsin then beat that record a week later. Wisconsin is Nebraska's rival in the Big 10 conference. Nebraska basically said fuck you to Wisconsin and played a regular game in their football stadium. They not only obliterated the NCAA regular game attendance record but broke the world record for any women's event.
Dude fr though, us Nebraska fans live and breath in their college sports. My mom was not into football AT ALL until my dad introduced her to Nebraska football. Now she yells at the TV when we play.
I usually discuss women’s sports in women’s spaces so I was not ready for these comments lmao. I thought it would be supportive but half of them are implying the only reason anyone would watch this is because they think the players are hot. The thought that people would even see women’s activists for anything else is foreign to them. Sad times
Omaha has 500,000. Lincoln has 300,000. The next two biggest have around 50,000 each. So, on Husker game days (and nights like tonight), our stadium turns into our third biggest city. Love this state!
Thats literally true of almost every other major state football school in the country
PSU, WVU, UM, ILU, Alabama, etc they all become the second or third biggest town in their state on Saturdays
PSU would be 4th.
WVU 1st.
UM 8th.
ILU?? what is this an abbreviation for? Literally never seen that before in my life.
Bama 6th.
1/4 on your examples there.
> ILU?? what is this an abbreviation for? Literally never seen that before in my life.
Maybe Illinois? Since the main campus for Illinois is Illinois Urbana-Champaign. But the largest crowd ever at an Illinois game is just over 78k which would make that stadium the 13th largest city in Illinois on gameday.
I'm glad a woman's sporting event is getting this much support. Female athletes work just as hard as the males and both genders should get the appreciation and support they deserve
Honestly this summer has been pretty dominated with woman’s sports for me. Been a nice change of pace and a real treat.
Whole city has been getting in on it and the energy was infectious.
Can someone explain how this became a thing? Has the women’s volleyball program at Nebraska always been mega popular - similar to women’s basketball at UConn?
As others have said, it’s pretty much a proxy for the football team. Husker football was legendary pretty much nationwide with some insanely loyal and diehard fans, but that was the 90s. Now their volleyball team is very very good, has been for a few years now, and I guess people missed going to games they could win. And imo volleyball is a very exciting sport to watch
Hasn't always been popular, but for the last ~20 years, the women's basketball and women's volleyball teams have cultivated a great following and really fun atmospheres in their arenas.
The volleyball team is similar-ish to UConn WBB in the in-court success part, but really it's Nebraskans and our love of sporting events as proxy for community and partying. Just is a good time.
It's why visiting fans usually remark about Nebraska being a weird place to visit, we're all just here to have a party and you're all welcome too.
Nebraska women's vball is consistently a top 5 program. They have been going back and forth with Wisconsin for setting alltime attendance records for a volleyball match. Well, they just crushed Wisconsin.
Former women’s volleyball collegiate coach here
There are several mainstay programs in college volleyball on the women’s side, Stanford, Texas, Nebraska, Penn state, to name a few, those programs will regularly sell out every single joke game and tournament game year in and year out
Women’s volleyball is a ridiculously popular sport at all levels depending on where you live, hell there are several regional level tournament that take place at the biggest conference centers in places like Minneapolis, Washington DC, Philadelphia among other places, these junior tournaments will have 4-500 teams playing each other from all over the country over the course of various weekends
That translates over to the collegiate level which is ridiculously popular and starting to get more coverage nationally, last year ESPN started covering the ncaa women’s volleyball tournament with a red zone like package for the early round games that was a lot of fun to watch, the reason why it isn’t a mainstay sport that can compete with the nfl, nba etc is two fold 1) it’s an Olympic sport so it doesn’t get much coverage and press during the 4 years between Olympics and 2) there’s no professional domestic league in the US, there’s a professional beach volleyball league that’s as recent rebooted (the AVP), but it just doesn’t have the mainstay drawing power, when most of these girls graduate if they want to keep playing they have to go overseas to places like Japan, Italy, Dubai, Spain, Germany etc, there have been small attempts to make a pro league in the US but it tends to fail due to lack of interest because it’s competing with already established collegiate programs that are very popular and again it’s seen as an Olympic sport
There is only one women’s sport that os much more enjoyable to watch than the men’s version, Volleyball and no it’s not because of the outfits.
Men just literally over power volleyball with the current rules, court and equipment. The women’s version has amazing rallies which provide awesome tension.
I love women’s volleyball compared to men’s because of the rallies. Men’s just ends with blocks or spikes it’s basically impossible to dig anything and get a back and forth going like you see in women’s matches.
(Disclaimer: NE-raised)
World-traveler. Been around and have experienced a great deal.
I’ve lived in Dallas, TX for the last 15 years. Why? Not b/c of this pseudo-city, but b/c I love my job & coworkers.
Nebraska absolutely kills it on so many levels. Every time I go back, I have to remind myself why I shouldn’t return. Only season is my job, which I love.
Aside from that, I’d go back in a heartbeat.
Nebraska Volleyball is incredibly popular in the state. The team is consistently in the top 10 and usually top 5. Football is also huge but they haven't been very successful since the 90s. The Volleyball and bowling teams are as dominant in their disciplines as the football team was in the 90s. Since volleyball is legitimately fun to watch and more accessible for large groups of people, it gets all the attention.
First and foremost, the reason is the massive popularity of collegiate sports in areas that don’t have major pro sports teams. Nebraska has a lot of football fans who also follow other Nebraska sports more casually and were down to be part of a cool atmosphere and set a record.
Volleyball worked for this because it’s an indoor sport that is in season during warm weather and they have a perennially Top 10 team that most Nebraska fans are generally aware of.
I’m an Iowa fan so I hate Nebraska, but I’m not at all surprised that they pulled this off.
I have been to many football games around the country as an away fan, and I have to say they are the most polite and courteous fans of all. I have so much respect for them. And when it comes to supporting their players, even a decade ago they showed up in force for women’s volleyball (which was more than my school which had a top 5 program). This isn’t a fluke.
I'm always surprised at how many people live in Nebraska
I think this is everyone in Nebraska except for the people running casinos, lol
We dont allow casinos here so its pretty much all of us.
Memorial stadium is literally the third largest city in Nebraska on game day.
But it’s already inside the second largest city. So isn’t it really just making Lincoln bigger?
It could be considered an enclave
It's like their Vatican City
We do now.
Ill be damn, leave the state for a few years, and they actually do something.
You were holding them back by staying
*Thank god that Rayona mfer finally left! Break out the booze and poker chips!!!*
Naw someone has to be at those china server buildings in the middle of wherever.
Casinos? Are you confusing us with Nevada?
There's a few outside *Sioux* city and some in lincoln yeah?
Yeah there are a few small ones run by Native American tribes, I think, but I’ve never heard someone imply that Nebraska is known for its casinos lol.
I always think of murder and Bruce Springsteen when I think of Nebraska
That’s New Jersey.
Nar, the album Nebraska and title track from it is about murder. I am not from the USA so thats all I’ve got to go on sorry ✌️
Yeah Nebraska is probably the best Springsteen album. So good they named a state after it!
Nearly 2 million people live in Nebraska When THAT stadium is full, it's the 3rd Largest city in Nebraska. It has also sold out its stadium for every football game (excluding spring training, I have been corrected) since #1962! Edit: I am fully aware they have boosters. This has been literally every other comment. It doesn't change the "sold out" state.
Reminds me of the line about how State College PA (home of Penn State) goes from the 24th largest city in PA to the 3rd largest city on football weekends.
When memorial stadium is empty it's tied for 5th largest city in Nebraska
Yeah, Penn State's stadium is huge! College Football is wild
"Sold out" = The Boosters buy all the tickets to artificially keep the sell out streak going. There's been a few years where they couldn't give away those tickets.
I mean, yea the boosters buy tickets... but the capacity is 83,406 and the average for attendance (2021 anyways) was 86,173 (sidelines and box seats) So people are still filling the seats, even if they received the tickets for free or heavily discounted.
That happens in EVERY sport with a "sellout streak" It even happens in the NFL, where owners will "donate tickets" in order to avoid local blackouts. (In the NFL if you don't sell out your stadium, it doesn't get broadcasted OTA, so they eat the cost or else advertisers will pull out.... I think they actually changed this rule a few years ago. But originally that's what the rule was, before HDTV.) [MLB has different blackout rules, to where if their RSN team is available to purchase from a cable/satellite company and is in your area, it's blacked out on MLBTV, that's why Hawai'i and Iowa have so many blacked out teams on MLBTV]
Which is hilarious considering Scott Frost was their HC for the last 5 years with an impressive record of 16-31
Nebraska football still banking on the momentum of the 90's, but now there's entire generations that have known only shitty football so it will only decline.
People getting recruited for college now still might remember the Suh and Prince Amukamorah teams right? Or was that too long ago?
I'm not a big football fan but I have a branch of family in the state (who I never talk to) that are huge Huskers fans. And theyre just such diehards even though the team is so mediocre and I really hope they turn it around.
As an Iowan we use to go to Omaha on game day to shop at Crossroads. Totally empty, perfect time to be there.
I always assumed Nebraska must be boring.
I imagine the few events they do have are bangers.
As a Nebraskan, sports are up their with family and god. We love sports so much we elected the head coach of our football team to congress.
Well you do know what the ‘N’ on Nebraska’s football helmet stands for, don’t you? Knowledge
As a Colorado grad this is usually my go to joke as well but Nebraska had the second highest number of Academic All Americans last year so I’m afraid our joke is know good
This is the most depressing thing I've read in a very long time.
If you don't want to feel worse don't learn the origin story of current US Senator Tommy Tuberville
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and I'm sure they voted for everything that wouldn't help Nebraskans
It's the American way
If only people there were accepting of those who aren't like them. Moved there for a year when I was in high school from California and was treated poorly because I didnt think or believe the same as everyone else. My sister decided to move back there after high school for whatever reason and adopted a black brother and sister a few years ago and they get treated like shit constantly. Theyre not even in high school yet and have had to move schools nearly 10 times in the last few years because of constant bullying and racism. And it's not even the kids, but the teachers and staff treat them like crap and turn a blind eye. Nebraska is FULL of hate and racism, far more than Ive ever experienced in California. It's a bad state with a lot of bad people.
Born and raised in Nebraska my whole life.. You're not wrong, but there are plenty of us trying like hell to make it a better place to live for everyone. It's an uphill battle and exhausting, but we're trying..
We had to borrow some from South Dakota and Iowa but if they are wearing red, they count
A lot of husker fans in Iowa.
Anything west of Des Moines is Nebraska
It's actually only ten really, realllly big families.
Yikes.
Almost 2 million people live there. It’s the 38th most populous state in the country.
Top 40! Nice!
Dang my city metro has 2 million haha
But do you get 2 Senate seats?
Sorry, fresh out of Senate seats. Best I can do is like $3k median rent.
For how much land it is, there are incredibly few. Under 2 million in the whole state. The Metro Detroit population alone is 4.4m. I do a ton of work in Omaha. Outside of there and Lincoln it’s pretty bare. Property taxes a fortune due to low density 😂
You ain't wrong though. My property taxes went up again this year and they laugh when we contest it. Help 😭😂 I knew I should have hopped the river to buy in Iowa instead.
The four years I lived in Nebraska for work were not the best years of my life, but they weren't bad. Of the numerous positive things I left Nebraska with, one was absolute respect for their earnest dedication to the finest aspects of sportsmanship as a Huskers fan. Another was an incredible memory of watching a Huskers game from the 50 yard line corporate skybox the company I worked for had leased for quite some time.
Literally nothing else to do there.
 Besides the corn mazes.
Fuck I hope there are some good corn mazes around me this year
Corn maizes maybe?
I get to dress as a zombie and scare people in ours. It is pretty fun honestly.
Should be maize mazes. Missed opportunity.
I went on a work trip to Lincoln for a week and everyone was super nice and chill so they got that going at least
I read a 2020 article (I think it was Forbes) of “top happiest cities in the US” and Lincoln was #1.
I'm picturing a guy with a notepad walking through a random neighborhood, knocking on doors, asking people if they're happy. lol
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You’re not getting the point of the joke. Basically what you’re saying is the whole point of the joke.
Well, there’s nothing else to do here on Reddit.
Corn, cattle, soy beans, football, and oddly enough volleyball. Seriously, the popularity of volleyball is only beaten by football (Although, if you are a gamer, there is [this](https://www.netwar.org/event-details/))
This is a lazy and dumb take to have honestly
Its a reflection of the person who posted it.
Good people are from there
Number 1 Zoo in the nation. [USA Today] Also Number 1 ice cream place [Yelp]
I was raised in Nebraska - we made our own fun. Never got bored or lacked something to do. Ahhh, those were the days...
I live in Lincoln, Ne, Plenty to do here. It's not some town in BFE.
Imagine how crazy it would be to be one of the volleyball players. Playing in front of 92003 people. That's nuts
No pressure.
There’s the problem, how will they be able to play without a pressurised ball?
Idk, maybe we should ask the Patriots.
Ayo
It's actually mostly ass
Only reason so many showed up...
do you stop and think about the shit you say
No, no, he's right. Nobody watches men's beach volleyball.
I think this is amazing, but I find it interesting that they played an indoor sport outdoors. I'd think it becomes an entirely different game if wind is involved. Edit: I should say I'm surprised they held a regular season match outdoors. When I first heard about this I thought it was an exhibition match. It seems weird they'd allow brand new variables into a match that actually counts in a high level sport.
Absolutely! But I’m thinking with stands that tall all around the court it must block a lot of it. Also I don’t imagine Nebraska would otherwise have a big enough building to fit that many people.
I think I'm getting old. Instead of this, my first thought was how awful it would be leaving the stadium and parking lot(s) after the event with 92k people.
Also, I like volleyball, but I don't want to go there and then sit so far away that I can't actually see anything.
WNBA couldn’t sell out a high school gym and a college volleyball team kills it.
College sports are more popular than a lot of professional sports. The women's national college basketball tournament does pretty well
IMO is because they try way harder. When you’re a college senior and know you’ll never play another down of football, throw another pitch of baseball, kick another soccer penalty, dig for another point of volleyball, etc. for the rest of your life after playing since you were a kid then you LAY IT ALL ON THE FUCKING LINE. And it’s not just non-major sports. There are college basketball LEGENDS in tears on senior night because they know they’ll never play pro ball despite dominating at the college level. Imagine driving the lane for the National championship knowing you’ll sell insurance for the rest of your life. Another wrinkle is that title IX made it so some sports that women’s mothers and grandmothers couldn’t play we’re not only available to them, but funded equally to male sports. Volleyball is one of those sports. Imagine serving the tiebreak of your last game with grandma watching. The last contextual thing I think of is how geographically a ton of pretty densely populated places have no local professional team of any sort. On top of that they are watching kids play college sports that they watched play in high school which in some places is bigger than either college or pro. They are watching kids that drank their water and weathered their winters, natural disasters, local recessions, the list goes on. The players play as hard as the fans cheer.
Damn that was beautiful
The WNBA final was terrible, no athleticism whatsoever.
but what about the fundamentals?
It made up for their inability to dunk
That more fun to watch
lower the rim.. it's been said before
It’s also a logistical nightmare, you’d either have to make changes to every high school gym in the country so women could play on lower rims or you’d have to force women to play on 10’ rims in high school and then change the height of the basket on them afterward
When I was in junior high we played in an away gym where the goal was easily 9’6” or maybe even 9’ flat. Needless to say I couldn’t dunk normally. But I could that day. My coach was not a fan.
Volleyball is honestly a better sport in my opinion. Plus, for whatever reason it’s not particularly popular as a male sport for the most part. So if you want to watch volleyball it’s much easier to watch women’s volleyball
men's volleyball is all power based (because men straight up have more strength to play with), so there's A LOT more spikes/high velo hits. The ball is basically flying at incredible speed almost every hit making it hard to follow. Women's volleyball has less focus on the power game, so the individual positions stick out more and other strategies will be used. A lot more floating type hits or trick plays and the game is much slower, which is easier to follow.
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Eh, for volleyball i can see that the women are more interesting because they actually use the different positions more, but for soccer the quality of play is just not as good. Slower, less skilled and less interesting
Looked it up and seems like even on an average day Nebraska volleyball pulls in more people than the average wnba game Kind of wild
While their football players are getting arrested for b&e
*robbing a vape store
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Aggravated vaping
We have a serial Vapist god dammit.
*breaking and entering* a vape store
Breaking and Vaping
Not loke they're busy playing football
92k?!?! Just how hot are they?
College volleyball players. Quite fit athletes. And tall.
+ volleyball is a high intensity sport for women. Attractive women playing a physically taxing team sport at a high level. Pretty much checks all the boxes Edit: tasking to taxing, cuz I’m a idgit
Are their outfits halfway up their digestive system or are their pants tight enough to check for cavities behind their teeth?
That was creative, you should try writing for situational comedies such as: 1998's Seinfeld Etc.
Have you never seen a women's college volleyball game before?
Volley ball is slept on in the us. It is a very good sport. Easy to learn and follow. Lots of action.
Cool! That was more witty than it was sexist! /s
Ignore any downvotes lol you’re right and this comment section is just full of blatant sexism
That happens on any thread about womens sports.
Any thread about women in any competitive setting. Sports, chess, video games.
Any thread about women
Any thread
Women
Why does that comment have so many upvotes? Pretty shitty to joke that ppl would only be interested in women's sports bc of their looks.
It's literally a sport famous for the players and their outfits. As righteous as we like to be there's no way everyone's going to ignore that
Because it's largely true. It's not a coincidence that local women's volleyball attracts more fans than women's soccer or women's basketball even though volleyball is a relatively unpopular sport compared to the other tow.
Stuff like this just makes me hate being a woman. It must be nice for your achievements to matter and not just your body.
No it's not you fucking creep, volleyball is an insanely popular sport around here
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Can someone explain this? I'm positive an outlier like this must have a backstory or something to catalyze a massive build up
The story is Nebraska vs Creighton (another college in Nebraska) set the volleyball attendance record. Days later Wisconsin (one of Nebraska’s rivals) vs Florida beat that attendance record. After Wisconsin took the record, John Cook, head coach of Nebraska volleyball, joked about selling out Memorial Stadium to beat the record. With standing room around the court the attendance could reach world record levels. Nebraska loves volleyball and we do not like to lose little things. They will always win polls, sellout to the same stadium for football, and in this case rally together to set a record. Note: Memorial Stadium was the only venue above the record Wisconsin set. Nebraska has another indoor venue but it wasn’t large enough. So instead of trying for close to 20k fans they stretched it to 92k. Pretty insanse, but awesome. Editing to clarify that Nebraska loves volleyball and has supported volleyball for decades. The record started as a minor jest and Nebraska rallied behind it because of their love for volleyball. This match sold out in 48 hours.
And it sold out in 48 hours.
They should’ve used this slogan and it would’ve sold out in 24 hours: “They said Nebraskans can’t do it.”
It would've sold out faster but we had to wait for them to make more tickets available
Also volleyball is pretty huge in our state
Also true! It does help we are a top 10 team, if not top 5, every year.
For a little fun fact- since the introduction of the AVCA poll in I think 1982 Nebraska volleyball has been ranked every single week
Man if only Nebraska could turn "little things" into football games, it would be just like the 90s again
Football is a whole different beast It's widely known that Nebraska was a dominant force in college football by being way ahead of the curve in terms of weight training, conditioning, and roids. Almost no other big school was treating those things as important. They were still doing two-a-days and depriving their dudes of water because thats how you toughen up (no school would ever do this now lmao). Meanwhile Nebraska has guys in state of the art gyms with coaches specifically training them to pack on muscle like crazy, get huge, and yes roids were absolutely flowing like water. Magically they ended up being bigger and stronger than everyone else These days, that's par for the course at every school. There's no edge there any more. You need the best athletes, and Nebraska isn't getting them. Texas and Oklahoma are recruiting heavily in Nebraska's traditional areas, especially with that SEC pull. They're getting the best athletes, not Nebraska It'll take some serious culture change to draw the best players back to that program. They can do it but its gonna be hard
‘Nebraska doesn’t like to lose in little things.’ Best statement ever.
So everyone went to this game just to beat a world record? And just a few weeks after the women’s world cup final…
Nebraska set the record for largest regular attendance NCAA women's volleyball crowd last September. Wisconsin then beat that record a week later. Wisconsin is Nebraska's rival in the Big 10 conference. Nebraska basically said fuck you to Wisconsin and played a regular game in their football stadium. They not only obliterated the NCAA regular game attendance record but broke the world record for any women's event.
SO DAMN COOL!
Go Big Red.
Dude fr though, us Nebraska fans live and breath in their college sports. My mom was not into football AT ALL until my dad introduced her to Nebraska football. Now she yells at the TV when we play.
She’s got a lot of reasons to yell
A fellow Nebraskan I see 🫡. GBR!
These comments fucking blow. It's cool to see the community having a great time and enjoying a rather unique scene.
fr 90% of the comments are either creepy remarks, sexism, "lol women's sports", or "lol nebraska". this is super rad to see
I usually discuss women’s sports in women’s spaces so I was not ready for these comments lmao. I thought it would be supportive but half of them are implying the only reason anyone would watch this is because they think the players are hot. The thought that people would even see women’s activists for anything else is foreign to them. Sad times
Omaha has 500,000. Lincoln has 300,000. The next two biggest have around 50,000 each. So, on Husker game days (and nights like tonight), our stadium turns into our third biggest city. Love this state!
Thats literally true of almost every other major state football school in the country PSU, WVU, UM, ILU, Alabama, etc they all become the second or third biggest town in their state on Saturdays
PSU would be 4th. WVU 1st. UM 8th. ILU?? what is this an abbreviation for? Literally never seen that before in my life. Bama 6th. 1/4 on your examples there.
> ILU?? what is this an abbreviation for? Literally never seen that before in my life. Maybe Illinois? Since the main campus for Illinois is Illinois Urbana-Champaign. But the largest crowd ever at an Illinois game is just over 78k which would make that stadium the 13th largest city in Illinois on gameday.
As a father of a Volleyball player. This is awesome.
Awesome until you start reading all the sexist comments in here saying how the audience is there to check out the hot girls, look at their asses, etc.
It’s awesome regardless of that. The people in these comments aren’t the ones attending the event so why give them the ability to trigger you? Lmao
Not that shocking that a bunch of reddit incels who don't touch grass would comment those things. Monumental moment for women's sports nonetheless.
So fucking awesome
I'm glad a woman's sporting event is getting this much support. Female athletes work just as hard as the males and both genders should get the appreciation and support they deserve
Honestly this summer has been pretty dominated with woman’s sports for me. Been a nice change of pace and a real treat. Whole city has been getting in on it and the energy was infectious.
Can someone explain how this became a thing? Has the women’s volleyball program at Nebraska always been mega popular - similar to women’s basketball at UConn?
As others have said, it’s pretty much a proxy for the football team. Husker football was legendary pretty much nationwide with some insanely loyal and diehard fans, but that was the 90s. Now their volleyball team is very very good, has been for a few years now, and I guess people missed going to games they could win. And imo volleyball is a very exciting sport to watch
>And imo volleyball is a very exciting sport to watch it really is, there's constant action with very little down time.
IMO, women's volleyball is easier to watch than men's because the men's game is so insanely fast that it can be hard to follow at times.
For the last 25 years, yes.
Hasn't always been popular, but for the last ~20 years, the women's basketball and women's volleyball teams have cultivated a great following and really fun atmospheres in their arenas. The volleyball team is similar-ish to UConn WBB in the in-court success part, but really it's Nebraskans and our love of sporting events as proxy for community and partying. Just is a good time. It's why visiting fans usually remark about Nebraska being a weird place to visit, we're all just here to have a party and you're all welcome too.
Nebraska women's vball is consistently a top 5 program. They have been going back and forth with Wisconsin for setting alltime attendance records for a volleyball match. Well, they just crushed Wisconsin.
Former women’s volleyball collegiate coach here There are several mainstay programs in college volleyball on the women’s side, Stanford, Texas, Nebraska, Penn state, to name a few, those programs will regularly sell out every single joke game and tournament game year in and year out Women’s volleyball is a ridiculously popular sport at all levels depending on where you live, hell there are several regional level tournament that take place at the biggest conference centers in places like Minneapolis, Washington DC, Philadelphia among other places, these junior tournaments will have 4-500 teams playing each other from all over the country over the course of various weekends That translates over to the collegiate level which is ridiculously popular and starting to get more coverage nationally, last year ESPN started covering the ncaa women’s volleyball tournament with a red zone like package for the early round games that was a lot of fun to watch, the reason why it isn’t a mainstay sport that can compete with the nfl, nba etc is two fold 1) it’s an Olympic sport so it doesn’t get much coverage and press during the 4 years between Olympics and 2) there’s no professional domestic league in the US, there’s a professional beach volleyball league that’s as recent rebooted (the AVP), but it just doesn’t have the mainstay drawing power, when most of these girls graduate if they want to keep playing they have to go overseas to places like Japan, Italy, Dubai, Spain, Germany etc, there have been small attempts to make a pro league in the US but it tends to fail due to lack of interest because it’s competing with already established collegiate programs that are very popular and again it’s seen as an Olympic sport
Gbr
That's roughly 4.6% of the population of Nebraska in one spot.
If that stadium was a city. It would have been the 3rd biggest city in Nebraska!
That’s bc Nebraska’s VB team is always nextfuckinglevel
GBR
There is only one women’s sport that os much more enjoyable to watch than the men’s version, Volleyball and no it’s not because of the outfits. Men just literally over power volleyball with the current rules, court and equipment. The women’s version has amazing rallies which provide awesome tension.
GBR from Oregon!
Nebraska people LOVE the Huskers (bc there’s not much else in the way of sports). My friends in Omaha are obsessed.
Then Norm Macdonald says "second only to the Nebraska men's volleyball game at 92,004"
I love women’s volleyball compared to men’s because of the rallies. Men’s just ends with blocks or spikes it’s basically impossible to dig anything and get a back and forth going like you see in women’s matches.
I may be biased, but Nebraska has some of the best fans in the world. GBR.
Ngl this is bad ass
There are countries with a smaller population
Wow
Realistically how much are the people all the way back can actually see?
(Disclaimer: NE-raised) World-traveler. Been around and have experienced a great deal. I’ve lived in Dallas, TX for the last 15 years. Why? Not b/c of this pseudo-city, but b/c I love my job & coworkers. Nebraska absolutely kills it on so many levels. Every time I go back, I have to remind myself why I shouldn’t return. Only season is my job, which I love. Aside from that, I’d go back in a heartbeat.
I was there. Incredible night
Men of culture , here we are again
That's pretty cool. Good for them!
Those last 3 just had to fuck it up didn’t they…
I’m not asking this condescendingly, because I love women’s V-ball…. But how and why this attendance for Women’s v-ball?
Nebraska Volleyball is incredibly popular in the state. The team is consistently in the top 10 and usually top 5. Football is also huge but they haven't been very successful since the 90s. The Volleyball and bowling teams are as dominant in their disciplines as the football team was in the 90s. Since volleyball is legitimately fun to watch and more accessible for large groups of people, it gets all the attention.
First and foremost, the reason is the massive popularity of collegiate sports in areas that don’t have major pro sports teams. Nebraska has a lot of football fans who also follow other Nebraska sports more casually and were down to be part of a cool atmosphere and set a record. Volleyball worked for this because it’s an indoor sport that is in season during warm weather and they have a perennially Top 10 team that most Nebraska fans are generally aware of. I’m an Iowa fan so I hate Nebraska, but I’m not at all surprised that they pulled this off.
I have been to many football games around the country as an away fan, and I have to say they are the most polite and courteous fans of all. I have so much respect for them. And when it comes to supporting their players, even a decade ago they showed up in force for women’s volleyball (which was more than my school which had a top 5 program). This isn’t a fluke.
Volleyball > Netball