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Nebraska asks Fox Sports to stop running cornfield spot in its promotion of Big Ten football
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I actually liked the promo. Maybe that's because I'm from western, rural Nebraska.
Good move. Nebraska rightly has pride in its agricultural prowess, but I don't think it makes sense to reinforce the misconception among recruits that Nebraska is nothing but cornfields.
From this quote, it's not clear that the corn was the challenge although it could be part of it. The whole "this is where sacrifices are made" was just not a good look.
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Ugh....seems kind of whiny and overly sensitive for Nebraska to do that.
I realize they are trying to bust the stereotype, but considering the team name...sheesh.. what did they expect Fox promo team to do?
I don't know.... I'm not offended by it....
Do Herbie and Lil Red perpetuate the farmer sterotype? I guess Herbie doesn't wear overalls any more?
I realize they are trying to bust the stereotype, but considering the team name...sheesh.. what did they expect Fox promo team to do?
I don't know.... I'm not offended by it....
Do Herbie and Lil Red perpetuate the farmer sterotype? I guess Herbie doesn't wear overalls any more?
I don't think anyone was offended. It's more that we already hear every year, without fail, "I thought when I got here (Lincoln) that it would be all cornfields. I'm very surprised". Why reinforce that clearly wrong stereotype that somehow has persisted longer than the county scholarship myth. On top of that, it looked like crap.
Great point. Not sure how I missed the Children of the Corn metaphor. Bizarro corn cult is probably not the right direction to take NU's marketing.
We are "Nebraska Nice" now
Whatever, I am not in charge so either way. I wonder if Minnesota will complain about theirs? Minnesota Nice was kind of funny. To me Fox was playing off the sterotypes, that was part of it. I get the sacrifice part to, but then again it is hard to make everyone happy. I won't lose any sleep either way.
That's what I'm thinking.
I didn't think so much of that way, I thought that the players had to sacrifice and work hard to make it. I guess there are two ways to look at everything.
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