Frank: Nope, it was a game for all-time. Best-game ever. We lost, of course, but what can you do? Todd Blackledge, before his Chiefs days.

SDW: Okay, '83 team, '94 team. Who's better?

Frank: '83. Without a doubt. Greatest team in college football history. Miami got lucky--they always do.

SDW: But if God is Tom....

Frank: Even God loves the sinners.

SDW: Miami, sinners? Okay--I answered my own question. But still, since when is a decent passing game a passage to purgatory?

Frank: It's not, it's just all the other stuff. You see, my theory is that Nebraska was running all those years just to give the other guys a chance. Doctor Tom was just trying to make it easy on them. He is a merciful man.

SDW: Obviously more merciful than Joe Paterno. Come on, between you and me, you know Penn State's better. More points. Bigger victory margins. Better opponents. Uglier uniforms.

Frank: God, they are ugly uniforms aren't they?

SDW: Isn't that "Tom" instead of "G..."

Frank: No, I do think that Penn State deserves to be rated high, but it just isn't Nebraska.

SDW: How do you mean?

Frank: We earned this one. 23 years of good, old-fashioned hard work--by players and fans. It was our turn. Sort of like the Republicans.

SDW: Ahhhh. I see. It's just like Bob Costas said after the game. This wasn't just about football, it was about a way of life. It was about a whole community of midwesterners coming forth, overcoming perceived evils and taking what's theirs?

Frank: Yeah, and Miami sure beats the hell out of Kearney for the holidays.

SDW: Point taken.