Football season is officially here. The marquee is back — maybe not in its familiar place, but it's back nonetheless.
The honking horns from passing motorists on Normal Boulevard were a welcome surprise on Wednesday for Bruce and Jeff Melichar.
"It feels like football again," Bruce said.
Some traditions endure. Since the 1970s, the marquee at the downtown gas station on the corner of Ninth and P streets predicted the score of each Husker game.
Forget that Nebraska is always chosen to win — "I like my windows," Bruce has always maintained — it's one of those traditions that people counted on.