Nebraska Cornhusker Beefcake

Fred and I moved to Omaha in the summer of 1980, just after my sophomore year in college, and though I hated it at the time, it was probably just too much to bite off all at once: my first apartment, my first time paying rent, my first live-in relationship,  my first taste of adulthood.

We often drove down to the University of Nebraska, 30 miles away -- Fred even suggested that I transfer there to finish my degree -- so it became my first "adult" university.

Huge -- 25,000 students, 10 times the size of Augustana or Olivet.

Big on football and fraternities.




A huge, beautiful campus, walking distance from five museums, two used bookstores, and the State Capitol.

The biggest library I had ever seen.




















A weight room that brings tears to the eyes (actually, this one is new).

















And amazingly bulgeworthy wrestling singlets that bring tears to the eyes.

I can't resist posting another one.













This one was too good to pass up.

















Ok, last one.

Fred was a big fan of wrestling -- or wrestling singlets, anyway, and he promised that in the fall we'd get season tickets.  But I only stayed in Omaha about five weeks.













I haven't found any other good beefcake photos of Nebraska Cornhuskers, no swimming, track, or powerlifting.  Even the Uplifting Athletes 5-K run: they ran in their football jerseys.

But the eye-catching wrestling singlets are more than enough.












Plus the statue of Archie the Mammoth.