On Sat., Nov. 8, Missouri gave the Cornhuskers a run for their money and it was about time that a team did. Nebraska plays so much better when they are not ranked No. 1!

It gives them more motivation to achieve everything they’ve always dreamed of. It gives them more motivation to win!

Am I a Husker fan? You bet I am, because I am a student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. And Chad Calek, I used to be a Cyclones fan.

I was completely appalled and offended at the editorial written in the Nov. 11 Daily.

Is Chad Calek complaining already about a loss that hasn’t even taken place? Or is he just trying to compensate for it? The facts were not all there, so let me fill the rest of Ames in.

After every single win, the Nebraska Cornhuskers pray.

If anyone listened to the interviews after that Missouri game, they would have heard every single person thank God for the opportunity to simply play football.

They care about making their families proud and living up to the expectations given to them by God himself. So the next time you wish to call our football team “anti-Christ” and dissect those things that we actually hold dear — that are still left for us to have faith in — look at how much heart the members of the No. 3 football team play with.

I am sorry Iowa State is not having a great season. I’ve been there — my high school once lost a game 151 to zero.

I know what it’s like to not win. But at least my fellow high school classmates had the maturity to support other teams and to be happy for those who continued to win year after year. I’m sorry that they knew things that you, Mr. Calek, don’t know.

Columns are always great fun to read. And many times the point is sarcasm. But as a senior journalism and mass communications major, Chad Calek ought to know from his ethics classes that when you start to compare a football team to the devil’s advocate and call it “anti-Christ,” much more comes into play. It’s no longer funny.

I wish Mr. Calek the best of luck, but first, I wish him the maturity needed to write more ethically.

Alyssa Hoffman

Lincoln, Nebr.