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Article: ROSE BOWL: THE SCENE: LOYALTY IS STATE MOTTO NEBRASKA FANS MAKE PASADENA LINCOLN FOR DAY.(Sports)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- January 4, 2002
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Byline: Jill Painter Staff Writer
PASADENA - Dereck Thurman was sure he boarded a plane bound for California.
Thurman, a Tampa, Fla., native, planned a Pasadena trip to root for Miami in the national-championship game. Only when he got to the Rose Bowl, he wasn't sure he was in the right place.
``I thought I was in Lincoln for a while,'' Thurman said. ``I thought they were the home team.''
They were.
Maybe not officially. UCLA owns that distinction. But Thursday, Nebraska fans took over the Rose Bowl with an estimated 63,000 fans (70 percent) of the sellout crowd of 93,781, engulfing one side of the Rose Bowl stadium from ...