RC Strips to his Lucky Underwear for a Nebraska Cornhuskers Victory! 

This past Saturday even RC's "lucky" red long johns couldn't help the Big Red football team of Nebraska defeat the powerful Michigan Wolverines. Even with Michigan's head coach suspended for the game. RC, who had by the second quarter was wearing nothing but his union suit and socks, still couldn't get the Cornhuskers over the top. Not only did his favorite team fail, so did his his lucky underwear. 

Watching on TV minutes into the first quarter, RC winced as Nebraska sputtered to deliver on a "red zone" 4th and two, and so turned the ball over to Michigan. Getting the ball back with no score by either team, the Cornhusker's then missed a relatively easy field goal, allowing Michigan to quickly flee down the field twice, to score ten unanswered points themselves! The wind was blown from RC's sails at that point. 

He admitted that he was fully clothed in the first quarter of this game. RC was having lunch with his ten year old and not wearing his lucky red long underwear. After Nebraska failed to score and Michigan went up 10-0, he decided to get in to his union suit!

When the boy asked him, "How come you put on your long underwear, Papa?"  RC admitted to telling him: "Cuz I'm cold!"

After donning that underwear, Nebraska played much better in the second quarter. In fact, they tied Michigan with only one second left in the half with a successful, perhaps lucky, "Hail Mary" pass to the end zone! 

Would RC's lucky underwear hold up for the entire game? Would his players continue to play up to their potential?

In his exuberance, RC  poured himself a glass of beer. 

Why not, Nebraska was on to a probable victory over Michigan!

 

RC's celebration of a Cornhusker win was premature. In the end, the Wolverines defeated the hapless Cornhuskers who had seemed to search for a way to lose this important game between these two historic powerhouses. The players may have just as well been playing in their underwear for all the final score revealed. 

RC who swears by his red union suit, the one-piece variety, is typically lucky for him and those he roots for. But he and his favorite team were both stripped of a win this day. The Wolverines defeated the Cornhuskers 30-27, the final in front of 87,278 fans at Memorial Stadium and at least one fan in a suit of long red underwear watching at home on TV. 

The previous Saturday, as posted last week here in Union Suit Fan, found RC joining Georgia's Stanley Steamer as both football fans watched the game in their lucky red union suits, well suited for a win by the Bulldogs. Their underwear worked well then as Georgia beat Tennessee in overtime. This past Saturday, Georgia had a bye week and Nebraska said goodbye to a possible conference championship. 

Will RC say goodbye to his lucky union suit underwear? Probably not, but time will tell. Would the Cornhuskers have won if he'd worn his lucky red union suit beginning in the first quarter? Possibly, but we'll never know.

Here's to RC and his favorite team, hoping for a brighter tomorrow and a union suit that is truly lucky.