This is definitely one of my favorite pieces of Cornhusker memorabilia that I own. What you have here is a half helmet for each school in the original Big 8 conference, with the Nebraska helmet correctly twice as big as the other teams. I had this as a kid, admittedly I took some abuse in our basement from stray Nerf balls and the occasional bump. But I loved it all the same and when I graduated from college and was ready to move out and proudly display my Husker stuff in my very own place I asked my mom where she was storing it. The room fell silent and she gazed at the floor. She had thrown it out and frankly, I never forgave her for it. That’s a dick move, for sure, for someone who has sacrificed everything for you but, just look at how cool this thing is. I couldn’t get over it. Until one day about 10 years ago one came up for sale in my collector’s group on Facebook. A good guy and fellow collector had remembered that I wanted to replace the one I had lost. It cost a pretty penny but it was worth it to finally forgive my mother.
