Lincoln - city of colleges and football

Lincoln is Midwestern city totally different from cities in Europe. The Lincoln downtown is just couple streets with some bars, restaurants and stores. Nothing like the main square as is typical for Europe is here. Even not many people walk on the streets. Everybody has a car and that's why a public transportation isn't very good here (I don't wanna say sucks :-)).


My imagination of typical American city is a downtown with lots of tall skyscrapers. That's not Lincoln's case, there are just few taller buildings in the downtown and the tallest and probably most beautiful building in the city is State Capitol as you can see on the picture.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln is very quality university. In the US it is not so prestigious and not so expensive but still very good university. UNL has some very good colleges. One of them is College of Journalism and especially advertising program where I have most of my classes. I've heard that this college is among top 10 American journalism colleges. Proud to study here ;)

However, Nebraska and Lincoln is know mostly because of football (for non-Americans American football ;)). It is "just" college football but they have stadium for 80 000 people! Huuugeee!!! The color of Nebraska team - Cornhuskers (loupaci kukurice;)) and of Nebraska in general is red. What does it mean in real? Everybody who goes to the game put on some red piece of cloth - shirt, sweatshirt, pants, cap or whatever and you can see whole overcrowded stadium in red. Amazing experience!
Back to numbers - in Nebraska live about 1,5 million people and in Lincoln 230 thousand people and to every game go 80 000 people. That's pretty crazy! Americans just love football, but about that next time...