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Article: Miami-Nebraska: 'Slick vs. Hick': Hurricanes-Huskers a long-running morality play; 2002 ROSE BOWL NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- January 3, 2002
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If you were pitching tonight's Rose Bowl game between Miami and
Nebraska in Hollywood, you'd cut straight to the movie-trailer hook:
Slick versus Hick, Fast Planes versus Flat Plains, Back Talk versus
Back Hoe, Urban versus Cowboy.
Truth is, these schools are different: culturally, offensively,
geographically and philosophically.
You know how, in time, some people start looking like their dogs?
Well, the same might be said about Nebraska and Miami.
Nebraska is conservative, corn-fed, religious and rural - and so
is its football.
Miami is diverse, spicy, sun-soaked and cosmopolitan-and so is its
football.
Nebraska's style reflects a pioneer people who settled the
territory yards at a time; ...