1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Hour 1: Olympics and Mascot talk - 7/27/2024

Episode Date: July 28, 2024

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the Coppull Chevrolet GMC Studios. Here is your host, Derek Pearson. Brought you by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul. On 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Welcome to it on a Saturday. Give me light, Ben. Huh?

Give me light. Oh, yeah. I'll put those up. Give me light, kind, sir. I'll go get the remote. You keep going. Yeah, I got it covered, man. I got you covered.

So lots to talk about on a Saturday live 402, 464, 565, started him and text line. There are a couple things to cover on a Saturday. Lots to talk about. But some of this is really interesting to me in the process. That in this hour, I kind of want to go through some of the, the top news of the day. And in that,

the top story has to be the Paris Olympics. And in that, there are a couple of things in play. There were some conversation yesterday from Big Ten Media with Matt Rule, Coach Matt Rule making a statement and referring to the Big Ten conference.

in good form and only to have you know Paul Feinbaum kind of go against and say hey focus kind of sir but there are a couple of things in play about this and it just brings to light that the Big Ten conference at Big Ten Media there's a thing that was that was done as a big part of the promotion

and the vibe for the event that is Big Ten Media days was that there were more athletes at the at the Paris Olympics from the Big Ten conference than any other conference. And in finding that, you have to pause because the numbers are pretty remarkable that by school, this is how it ranks. And there's some, there's some weird, weirdness with the numbers. because the Big Ten Conference and Nebraska apparently don't agree on the number of Huskers in the Olympics.

Here's what Nebraska put out. Of course, there's Jordan Larson from volleyball, Justin Wong-Arantez volleyball, Maggie Malone Hardin, track and field, Kelsey Robinson from volleyball, Taran Lou from basketball along the way. Now, Rema Obator from track and field,

of course, the national champion. Yanni Chronopoulos, men's gymnastics, Emma Spence from women's gymnastics, of course, participating for Canada. Till Steinforth, track and fill. Nick Perry, track and field. Kesee Tomonaga basketball.

Mind de Clerk, and field. Excellent, Johansson, track and feel as well. That's 14. Yeah. That's 14. But apparently in the Big Ten's calculation, they don't list it seven.

That's a big, that's a, that's a jump. Well, they listed just the American athletes participating. Yeah. Not Tominaga. Not Tominaga, not your hot, like there's a bunch that weren't. And I just thought, I thought it weird, right? I just thought it was weird. Yeah.

that Nebraska, I mean, there was a post, and it's like, okay, the Olympians are made in Lincoln, 14 Huskers. And of course, not all of them are American. We do this in this day and age, but they only listed the seven Americans, which was just, it's just a weird thing that you don't get on board that the conference itself, who was boasting that in its 100,000, 129 Big 10 athletes. 129 of the 500 plus USA Olympians or Olympians. So America sent 590 athletes.

Somewhere in that percentage, 500 plus. 129 of them being Big 10 conference. And here's the numbers that the Big 10 conference gave. And I found, like I just found it super interesting. that they, this is, we couldn't agree on this. That, so Ben, if I asked you what Big Ten school was probably at the bottom of the list of producing the least amount of athletes? Like, is there a school that? For Big Ten?

Yeah, Big Ten school. They're 18 Big Ten schools now. Yeah. How many, who of the 18 kind of strikes you as in the Olympic sports? And we have a full understanding that football is not an Olympic sport. So we can take that from the pool. but we can we know that baseball softball

yeah both fall in the Olympic sports and Nebraska identifies its Olympic sports pretty openly yeah I would I would my the first one that comes to mind is Washington Washington is in middle middle of the pack with 11 at least and again

the numbers vary based on whether you believe the Big Ten conference tonight now we already yeah put a poke their credibility in this thing but they list Washington with 11. Okay. And remember that they, Nebraska listed themselves with 14. They listed Nebraska with 7.

So is Nebraska towards the bottom? Nebraska, according to the Big Ten Conference, again, this is kind of why I wanted to have discussion. They have Nebraska in a tie for, for last. A tie for six from the bottom. Okay. So a tie for 12th. Okay. With seven with Iowa.

Iowa was going to be my next guess. With Iowa. Rutgers? Rutgers is 17th. Tied for 17th. Yeah, with four. There's somebody with less than Rust with Rutgers. Somebody with the same as Rutgers and somebody with less than Russ.

Rutgers. I don't want to say, is Northwestern? Northwestern is above Rutgers. that's what I would have thought at six at six okay that's what I would have thought um man just just going through right hmm and I I I went through this tough yeah because you start you think how we think about big 10 schools yeah and immediately we jump to football because that yeah that is but that's not it's not a one that that's not Olympic Illinois Illinois ready for this this is this is where it gets really interesting Illinois is listed

at really Illinois is tied with Rutgers at four okay so I'm I got pretty good hang of this so 16 and 17 are Illinois

Rutgers there's still an 18 northwestern at 6 is just above Illinois Rutgers there's still a university who has the fewest amount according to the Big Ten

I don't want to say Maryland I feel like they'd be middle of the pack Maryland is above yeah they're certainly above Maryland. Well, they're not that far above. They're tied with Northwestern at six. Okay.

So, Nebraska, Iowa. Here's the bottom, the bottom eight. Nebraska, Iowa, Northwest. Maryland, Northwestern, Illinois, Records. That's the bottom, six of the bottom seven. Okay. There's one more. The bottom of the, is it a Pac-12 team?

No. No. No. It is a traditional big, big 10 program. a traditional Big Ten program. Wisconsin? No. Wisconsin is in the upper tier. Okay.

I'm just like throwing down. They would be in the, so, and we've learned that in the Big Ten this year, you have to block the groups in six. Yeah. There's the top six, the bottom six,

and then the middle six. Washington is the top of the middle six at 17. Okay. Which is a pretty good number. if we think Nebraska really has 14. Yeah. That's a pretty good number. Who do you think is at the top?

At the very top. At the very top, Olympic sports. And this is, in fact, a pack 12. Oh, okay. So either Oregon or USC, right? Either or one of the two. Oregon? No, USC.

USC leads the Big Ten Conference in Olympians with 44. Wow. With 44. That's a lot. 44 Olympians. See, this is why when people talk about USC and you're going to down talk USC, it's still USC. Oh, yeah.

Like, let's not trip. Let's not trip. This is really a thing. Who do you think second? USC is first. I would say either Oregon, no. Ohio, either Ohio state or Oregon? Michigan.

Michigan. Michigan with 40. Okay. With 42. Not surprising. Penn State jumps in at three. All right. jumps in at three.

Good for them. With 21, a shocker. Yeah. In that Indiana and Wisconsin are tied next at 17. Wow. I'm surprised Indiana is that high. Indiana and Wisconsin at 17. Also surprising that, and you talk about disparity, that Michigan has 42, Ohio State only has 12.

Wow. That's a big jump. That is a huge statement of the Big Ten Conference. Yeah, Ohio State might have the best football team in the country, but only how many Olympians? Right. That 12, Oregon only has 11. Yeah, yeah.

And for perspective, again, we know that Nebraska has 14. We can name 14. If you tell me that Ohio State only has 12. They probably have some more. They probably have some more, but still, this is, this is doable. But that Oregon has the same amount. as Purdue. Oregon.

That's surprising. That's a Nike factory. All the NIL, whatever one. Right. Purdue, Oregon, Purdue,

Washington tied with 11 Olympians. I'm surprised Washington is tied with Oregon. That's surprising. Like all of the, like it's kind of mind-boggling that through this thing. And then there's Minnesota.

Minnesota at eight. I've not mentioned one school. Michigan State. Michigan State. state only has three Olympians according to this and I get it like I need to I need I need I need you to get on your Google machine and find out what Michigan State says about the Olympics because I would okay I really kind of I'm stunned by this like I really yeah I'll try to find I'll try to find what they said right that that through um tad from the text now he said Jordan Burroughs wrestling

Um, Jordan Burroughs didn't make this year's wrestling team. Hmm. He didn't make Paris. Remember, that was a, that was a big deal. Now,

he's a great Olympian, but he is not at, he's not at Paris as a participant, as a competitor. Yeah, they, yeah, they only list three,

Michigan State lists three. Wow. Heath, Baldwin, Torrey Franklin, and Shay Coley. Wow. So they must, that's all the Michigan State listed.

They didn't listen anymore. Three, that's not very many. That really isn't a lot. Man, there's, so at the top of this. Now, here's where it gets really wonky. I'll tell you that two of the top three teams programs in the country in Olympians are from the Big Ten. Hmm. All right. Who do you think is number one?

in all all in all conferences all sports all programs what program is number one i'll tell i'll help out and tell you that number four is florida okay the florida gators uh in a in a bit of a surprise is number one in the cc no big ten no whoa Oh, whoa, we're getting crazy now. Right. This is why I found it all fascinating when you start looking at the Olympics because pockets of the country watch the Olympics differently. Yeah. And the Midwest likes to kind of sink its teeth in the meat and potatoes of the Olympics

in that they follow their athletes. The perimeter of the country actually has more athletes in the Olympics. Yeah. But middle America is more connected to it. I can tell you the conference. Okay. Would it be Big 12 or ACCC? It's the ACC.

ACC. It's the ACC. Is it Florida State? Florida State. Let me see. Florida State is in the pocket. Wow. Didn't have this.

Florida State has 17. Okay, that's not that many. I thought they have way more. But they're tied with. Are you ready for? for this. Who? Florida State is tied with Harvard.

Harvard. Harvard has more Olympians than Nebraska. Wow. They're a bunch of nerds over there. Hey, I'm barely nerds are kicking tail. Oh, yeah. Nerds are kicking butt, man. Like, I didn't, you didn't, wow.

I would not, that is not the range I would have, I would, no, I wouldn't have gone. And then I kind of need to know, like, who else did the Ivy League? accountable. I would think that it's like rowing. Rowing? Maybe. Right? I don't know. Like it, okay, you have to Google now. Harvard Olympians.

Harris. I'll love. Right. Because it's just, this is, this is the rabbit hole I go down. That I, I can't imagine. I wouldn't have guessed that. I wouldn't have either. I wouldn't have guessed that at all.

The number, okay, so I'll give you the top 10 in reverse order. I just want to guess the ACC top, the top school. I mean, I don't think it'd be Clemson. So in the top 10, at number 10, at number 10, SEC, Arkansas. Okay. With 23. Arkansas. That's a little surprising, right?

It really is. It really is. So I got a conference comparison how many Olympians are in each conference. So Big Ten has the most 116. Right. Then it's the ACC with 98. Then it's the SEC with 85.

And the ACC number is wrong. I'm just going to tell you from looking at what's on my screen is wrong. That's what it says. And then Ivy League it says 47. 47. And the Big 1228. Big 12. What are you even doing?

Yeah. Big 12, what are you doing? What do you doing? Big 12? Yeah. So here's the top 10. Arkansas with 23. UCLA.

Okay. Is at 9 with 24. Tennessee. Okay. Not spied by that. At 8 with 27. And sidebar, I am laughing so hard at UT right now. Because the SEC had to make with the inclusion of Texas.

Yeah, who's going to be the UT? Yeah. And the SEC said Tennessee is our UT. That's, is that surprising that they were here. They're their first. Yeah, I guess. They're their first. And Tennessee existed before Texas.

Yeah. Like in state and university. I mean, yeah, Texas had a little bit more success recently, but. Listen, man, we got here first. Yeah, it makes sense. Like, you know, I mean, Nebraska has gone through this with the NU and the U of N, right? Yeah. And I, this is, this is weird how my brain thinks.

Is it U of N? University of Nebraska. Or in you like we see on the helmet. I mean, because Nebraska University or University of Nebraska. I don't know. I think people say Nebraska University more. Do they really? I feel like, yeah.

All right, Texan. You can help us. I hear it both ways, though. I don't think there's like a bad way. I've never heard anybody say Nebraska University. Everyone says NU though. No one says UN. Everyone says NU.

Well, this is why Northwest. Like, there are universities who claim NU. NU. Northwestern University is actually, it's not the University of Northwestern. Yeah. It's Northwestern University. I mean, we're technically at the University of Nebraska.

Right. That's the technical name. And have we, to your knowledge, daily Nebraska. in Ben Droz Has there ever been the logo used U NL

in any athletic way shape or form as far as the logo Like on the helmet we have in front of us That's in you Yeah I don't know that I've ever seen UNL Right no it's

It's NU I feel like Have they ever use U of N? no so no like i don't i mean i might be wrong but i don't think so i'm pretty sure they say n you i mean most most say you and l but when like you know logo and everything you don't like logo you that's what i imagine insightful dut says most people say you and l that's what most people say but but from a logo like if you're going to do if you're going to do if you're going to do an alternate like basketball jersey, baseball jersey.

Yeah, they're not going to put you and L. they're going to put NU, I feel like, if they would do that. But I would totally be on board. With you and out? I would imagine that, like, seriously, if the two, if you walk down the street and there were two jerseys side by side. Yeah.

That said, one said in you and one said you and out. Which one would you be more intrigued by? I mean, I like, I mean, UNO, you know for sure. It's like, yeah. I mean, I get, you put in the color scheme, you know it's Nebraska. At least in Nebraska. Yeah. I'm not sure the rest of the country would know.

Yeah. And if it's the right colors, it probably wouldn't matter. But I, just in my head, if you, if they did an alternate helmet. You and out, that'd be different. Like this year, you and L. Like, we've had this discussion over time that I think, have they ever used to throwback bug eaters helmet as far as you know? don't think so okay so let me ask the question Ben okay wouldn't you would you would you would you be thumbs up or thumbs down to bug eaters as a one time like alternate jersey helmet

i'd probably be thumbs down to that really yeah like i see bug eater's shirts around town yeah i don't know maybe maybe i'm against the mass consensus there but i i i you wouldn't go you wouldn't go in with bug eaters. No. I mean, if they would do it, I wouldn't be like mad. But like, if I wasn't one making a decision, I'd be like, nah, no, we're not doing bugs.

Where do you fall on Huskers versus corn huskers? I very, everyone's to, I don't know. I mean, whenever I write something, I don't ever write corn huskers. But like, for football, I would say corn huskers. You know what I mean?

But for like, for like, for like, for bad. So nobody else matters. But I'm saying for like basketball, I say Huskers, but like football, for some reason I say cornhuskers. I don't know. Maybe it's just because on the broadcast, they say cornhuskers all the time. I'm like, on football broadcast, they say cornhuskers. So was there a move at some point to lean away from cornhuskers to Huskers?

I think so. Or was that kind of an organic, hey, it's just cooler to say Huskers rather than cornhuskers? I don't know. It might have just been like a thing that has happened over time. I don't know if it was intentional. See, this is where, this is where I, me and my natural curiosity, I was telling us to Austin last night during old school and one-on-one, that I can plan a show, but because I'm in learning mode.

Learning mode. Well, I'm not from here. Oh, yeah. I'm not from here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it would be extremely arrogant from me. to think that I know everything about it. I could just know.

If I'd go to Florida, I wouldn't. Right. You wouldn't know everything. And I mean, and I've moved around constantly. So I've had to constantly learn different spaces of the country. And being here and saying, okay,

because the Nebraska mascot has its own, like the history of it has its own journey. I still think the whole corn man thing is just weird. It's weird to the point. point that it should be overdone. Like, Ben, if I came in with a corn man hat. I have, at home, we have like the corn hat.

But if you had a hat, like, there are tons of hats. Yeah. Right. But if you had like the fully stitched corn man mascot. Right. Somebody asked the question of why they don't do like a little red hat. I love a little, I like little red more than her. You're, you're, am I, oh, that's funny.

I like, I think, you are one of, like, you are in it. That is a very short roll call. I love, I love, I think Little Red is better than Herbie, especially the updated Herbie. I do not like the updated Herbie. I don't like it. You don't like the update. So they made it like blonde. The one versus the okay.

Is that? No, just, I mean, yeah, like, they like went back to like the retro Herbie a little bit. Yeah, yeah. I don't like that. Farmer, Farmer, Herbie. Yeah, I don't like that. Little Red is. My dude, I love, my favorite thing about Husker basketball games is that Little Red is always at volleyball

games and he's always at basketball games. I love that. He really doesn't, he doesn't do football. He's there for football, but I think he leaves after like the beginning of the game. I swear. Is it the same person? No, I bet there's different people that do Ler Red all the time. So why does he not?

I don't know. He's definitely there for, like, at the beginning of football games, him and Herbie are out on the field. I don't know if he's there for the entire game, though. Maybe he is, and I just don't, because I would always sit in the student section, so I might not be able to see him that great. Yeah, I, wait, so the daily Nebraska has you sitting in the student. No, that's if I'm just like in the student. That's just if I'm going as a student.

If I'm covering for the game, then I'm up in the press box. Okay. I'm trying to think, I don't, he might have been there the whole time. I wasn't looking for, I wasn't, I wasn't, I, the mascots was not my top concern. I was more intrigued by the game. And I'm still, here's another, it really is, of course, before we go to break. It really is the question of how many people,

because I would assume that it's young people who are there for Little Red. I like Lower Red better. I like Lower Red better. We'll throw out to break more one-on-one here on the ticket. You're listening to One-on-One with D.P. Brought you by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul on 937 the ticket and the ticketfm.com.

Again, welcome to the rabbit hole that is one-on-one. Oh, yeah. On a Saturday at the ticket, DP Penn. We got on a Mike Riley somehow. Yeah. This is, again, it's conversational in that you try to figure out what makes Nebraska, and Nebraska in its ultimate true form. Like what is, right?

Yeah. And in that, like we got, somehow we ended up with Little Red. We went from Paris Olympics, Big Ten, Huskers Olympians, to Little Red. To Little Red. Because the mascot, right? But then also in identifying from a Husk, from a Nebraska fan perspective, what is, Nebraska? Like what is? And what do what do people identify as?

So I we end up with you said Little Red in your mind. You're a bigger fan of Little Red than you are Herbie. Yes. I don't hate Herbie. I don't like the updated Herbie. I just like Little Red better. I like he's fun? Fun? Yes. I think he's more fun. Have you seen it where he like goes upside down on his head and he's like bounce out on his head? Like I love like that's awesome. That's awesome. Herbie can't do that. No, Herbie can't.

His head would pop off. His head would pop all the way off. So then that took me down the rabbit hole that is, like I said that, okay, so if you read the description of Lorette, the official Nebraska description, he's one of the two mascots at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. Yeah, that's the technical name. The athletic department. Again, U and L, not used. enough in my mind.

But hey, newest mascot he was created in 1993. Yeah, when I was growing up watching Nebraska sports, I love Lower Red. Has Loredd morphed, or is this the version of? I think he's kind of been the same the entire time. I think so, yeah.

Right? To appeal to younger fans was focused primarily on women's volleyball. Yeah. By Dr. Himner, after a statewide contest. You can be seen on the sidelines of a Nebraska football game at Bob Devaney Sports Center during basketball and volleyball. Mm-hmm.

I would imagine that means no softball, no baseball. I don't even think there's any mascots there for those games. And to imagine that some of the other Olympic sports don't get, so like soccer gymnastics, Soccer has her to be there. Gymnastics because it's Bob Devaney Center. Yeah, I think they have mascot too. Gymnastics is there, volleyball's there.

I think it might be because baseball is like off campus, maybe. Would it be, would it be incorrect and improper to have Lorette at wrestling? Yeah, you don't want fun, fun. You want that that's the throw. That's the Neanderthal section. I don't know. I don't even know if there is a mascot. No, Lohred is at wrestling, I think.

think. I don't, I've been to enough I don't recall saying Lil Red, because I can't imagine Little Red bouncing out at mid-mat. Right? Like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I can't, I can't see that. I can't see that. I'm just trying to think, because I've been to some, I've

been to some Husker wrestling matches. So it says that Lil Red has won two major awards. Oh, because he's the best. With the first being the National Championship NCAA National Mascot competition. Oh, yeah. In 1919. 1999, Loretne won the national championship for...

Go low red. Go low red. So, Ben, there may be... Okay, so are we really... Are we really devaluing Lelred? I think we are. I think he's underrated as a mascot. I think that's fair.

He's appealing to the younger audience. Yeah. And I just think he's more fun. Well, he's a national champion. And he's a national champion. Has Herbie ever won a national champion? Has Herbie ever won a national audience? National Championship.

I don't, I don't know. We'd have to look that up. I'm going to have to look it up. Again, this is, okay, so. Put some respect on low red's name. Put some respect to Low Red's name. So here's what it says about Herbie Hussker, the oldest mascot at the University of Nebraska Lincoln was created, but was created by Lubbock, Texas artist, Dick, Dirk West.

First appeared on the cover of Husker MediaMagued in 1974. So there were, and relatively recent. Yeah, that's not too old. Right. Soon after became the official mascot. He's gone through a few makeovers most recent being April, 2003 that you talked about. I don't like it.

Don't like it, right, when he returned to a more classic look compared to revised Herbie that was unveiled before 2003 college football season. Until 2003, he was dressed in denim overalls, red cowboy hat and blazes with a large N, has an ear of corn in his pocket. Again, N, not U and L, not. Yeah.

And you. Like that has to be worked out. And they wanted to update the overall appearance of the state's agricultural workers and general public. This is what I don't get. Is Nebraska, why is Nebraska trying to look like that? I understand that's a big part of Nebraska. I understand that.

But why is that the perception that we're trying to put as Nebraska? Like, dude, why would someone that's from Florida be like, I want to go where the farmers are? Like, what? I said your text and email to Ben. They're going to come and get you. He said, Lil Red needs a never-ending supply of helium so he can float away forever. What? He's a national champion.

Read the other tech. Tanner, stop that. That's just mean. Read the other text. He said, Lil Red best master. by far. He needs to make more appearances at men's basketball. It seems he's been banished from the men's sports for the past decade. It's a tragedy.

He was at some men's basketball games and he's at football games. So that's not all the way true. He's a national champion. He's a, put some respect on. Like he's a, I mean, look, there's your opinion and then there's fact that he's a national champion. It says, what about Herbie? Did he?

But it, okay, ready, ready, ready? during half time of the 2006 Capital One Bowl, Herbie was named National Mascot of the Year in 2005. So they're both national champions. So they're both national champions and treat them as such. Like, don't hate. Like, you can't, listen, you can't. That's like choosing between the Heisman Trophy winners.

Like, you have, like, no, there are certain people that you can. not speak ill of in Nebraska. National champions and national champions. Lorette is a national champion. Like national champions and the Heisman Trophy winners, you cannot speak ill of in Nebraska. So listen, let's, that, that, hopefully that ends the conversation of, of the little red hate.

I, I don't understand the little red hate. I don't get it. Why? What is to not like about him? He is the most lovable mascot ever. Have you seen like Purdue's mascot? He's scary. What?

He's scary. He's not. He's a boiler maker. He doesn't look, love, he doesn't look like a loving mascot. Herbie, I want to hug Herbie. Well, you want to hug Lorette. I'm not sure you want to hug Herbie. I don't know.

I'd be okay with it. It's Saturday. I can't even tell the joke. I can't even tell the joke. Tanner told me be a man not a wimpy child. I can be a man and like Lorette. The joke is, Herbie,

it's that a corn cob in your pocket or you're happy to see me. Oh, my. Eric says Lurred can die in a fire. What is this? Look, there's nothing. There are two times of people.

What is this? People who love Little Red and people who do not love Little Red. And like it is a- What did Little Red do to you? I don't know, man. Why do you want, Eric, I don't want you to die in a fire. Why do you want Little Red the Dian Fire? Listen, again, this is, we're going to do another hour of live radio.

And I think that's like the, I said this. I was telling Luke because he said, oh, you have to go on air. And I'm like, yeah, he goes, were you playing on going on air? I was like, no. and he goes, listen, this is how this works. I could do, there have been since years where I've done 12 hours of radio straight and not talk about the same thing in any hour.

That's kind of like for Saturday. I've been away. Yeah. So I've got gas in the tank when it comes to Nebraska athletics. The Huskers have been mediocre to terrible since Ler Red. Hashty break the curse.

So you guys want to sacrifice Lorette at midfield. No, but he's, I don't either. Here's the flaw thinking in that. As I just said to you, that's not going to help win. As I said to you, Little Red was national mascot of the year in 99, right?

Yeah. Herbie was the most recent mascot of the year. I think, yeah. Not Little Red. It's not Little Red's fault. And you went back to traditional, right? That's what I'm saying. Little Red, let me make sure.

Let me make sure. Herbie, they went back to his traditional. Little Red was the national, yep, okay, ready for this. So he won the national mascot of the year in 99. Herbie won it in 2005. Okay. So if things have gone wrong since Herbie won the national title, not Lil Red. And here's the other thing.

I'm just going to, this is why you can't burn Lil'Ret. Little Red was inducted into the 2007 mascot Hall of Fame. Hall of Famer, just like Treel Farley. He's a Hall of Famer. Just like Terrell Farley on this radio station. I'm just going to say that's going to be the battle. This is why Nebraska's cursed, that you're cursing your Hall of Famer. This is, put some respect on Lower Red's name.

He is not, Tanner says he's a Chuckie Cheese like mascot. No, he's not. He's a Hall of Fame. He's a Hall of Fame. He's a lovable mascot. Put some respect on the name. I love Lorette. Look,

we're going to start the campaign. Put some respect on Ler Red's day. I'm going to go down O Street and we're going to. Hall of Famer. Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to go and buy a massive blow up L'Ret. Put him at the station. It's going to happen.

Yep. It's going to happen. It's going to happen. We'll go to break when we'll come back. We'll finish this conversation, at least for this hour. You're listening to One-on-One with DP, sponsored by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul, on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. It is pretty remarkable. It is.

That we have gone down so many rabbit holes in an hour. We're going to extend this to new. People are telling me to grow up on the text on. They are at you, bro. They are at you. Ben. Look, Ben, put some. respect on Ben's name because he was actually in the correct lane when he said, listen,

mad respect for L'O Red because again, not only, and again, I've been here for a while, nobody's ever told me the history of L'O'Read, that L'Read in the game. Like, his success ratio ratio is off the chart. Oh, yes. It's crazy good. Like, it's crazy good. And then people blame L'O RET. But Lord Red's Apex was 1999.

That's when he started. That's when he, right? And then winning the mascot of the year. Or was that, he went in 1996. So he, here's what it says. And I'll read it again for folks. His first year was 1993. Okay.

And then he won it in 1999? So, so he peaked this. 93. Then you win the title in 94. One year. Look, stop. One year. This is the real, right?

One year. Created in 93. They then win under coach Tom Osborne, the first national title under Osborne in 94. Then they win it in 95. The success came with low red. In 97, in 99, he was voted national mascot of the year. So it took him six, six, five or six years to win. Mascot of the year.

Right. And then, crazy. In 2007, inducted into the Mascot Hall of Fame. Go L'O Red. Like, so, listen, from this point forward,

if you speak of L'O Red, it should be, just like in every other sport, Hall of Famer. Put some respect. Right, Hall of Fame or L'O'Rae. Yep. So we're going to officially start

the campaign to rebrand Little Red. We need to rebrand the percent. Ben, I need the graphic. I need the graphic. I need the graphic. We'll put a bell on. Right.

That we need little red. In several graphics. One, put some respect on my name. Yep. We need to change the perception of the little red. Right. People are putting undue hate on the lower red. This brough went in through, I mean, three titles in four years under his watch, three, five.

Yep. He came in. That's when Oswald was certified. One natties. One natties. Mm-hmm. And then. and then went into the Hall of Fame

and was like... Etched in history. Right? So officially from this day forward. Is Herbie even in the Hall of Fame? He's in the Hall of Fame. Herbie got in the Hall of Fame. Okay. First, he got in the Hall of Fame in 2005. And then Lorette. And then Lorette went in in...

But Herbie's been in here since 70s. Well, Herbie get... Herbie's the O.G. Yes, he's O. He's the O. He's the OG because he was... The real O's... Remember that. Remember this, that. that created in 1974. So he doesn't get credit for the Devaney national chips.

He doesn't get credit for it. He gets credit for the offensive explosion, but he doesn't get credit for Devaney's two national titles. So they have the same amount of national titles. They have the same number of national titles. They have the same number of national mascots of the year. And they're both in the mascot hall of fame. feels like this feels like a first take debate when we're debating michael jordan versus the brawn he's got six he's got six for six in the finals that's what this sounds like we're talking about mascots and national title i like i think it's amazing like it's just totally like it's totally a thing that matters oh my god but this is what look this is what the rabbit hole does to you we went down we like we now know so it says that as of uh two thousand

22. There were 1.97 million people in Nebraska. Okay. And that 2% of the corn of farming. Yeah. In the country. From Nebraska. Yeah, Nebraska.

But Nebraska, as much as they think corn is their thing, they're number three in corn production. Beef. They are number two. No, they're number seven. They were seven with hogs, pigs. They were three and corn, I'm pretty sure. Three with corn, but two in beef.

Soybeans was four, wheat 14. So corn is three, soybeans, four, and then cattle's two. Cattle is two. In the U.S. Again, Ben, Nebraska produces 12.67% of the U.S. is beef production. And so to fully say, listen, first of all, Nebraska has to re-identify who it is, Nebraska is a beef state. It's a beef steak.

Listen. Really? If you want the campaign, like listen, don't say eat more chicken. Eat more beef. Nebraska is a beef town, folks. It's a beef state. You got to get it right.

We got to get all of that right. We're going to stay here for the next hour, and then we will get into because I want to go into the history of the bug eaters. Yes. Because that's a thing. And then, Ben, I'm going to quiz you and the text line on, you ready for this? Big 10 mascot names.

Okay. I think I can do it. See if you can get through the 18, not just, not just the like the USD Trojans. But what's the Trojans name? Yeah. We're going to have some fun in our two on one on one on the ticket.