When Bob Stitt was growing up in Nebraska during the days of Tom Osborne, he never needed a reminder of who the state’s favorite college football team was.
“I grew up in Nebraska and that’s what people wore was Huskers stuff,” Stitt said Monday.
At that time, when Nebraska were dominating the Big 8 Conference and challenging for national titles, its main rival was Oklahoma. Clearly, the Huskers and Sooners weren’t fighting over a state’s battle rights, however, it was a passionate rivalry. In 1971, when Stitt was young, top-ranked Nebraska beat No. 2 Oklahoma, 35-31, in a game labeled “The Game of the Century”.
In the good luck of those on the losing side of those Nebraska-Oklahoma games, most of them lived a good distance apart and didn’t have to face each other at work the following Monday. In his 23-months in Missoula, Stitt has observed that’s not the case in Missoula — or Bozeman.
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