Camp Randall Stadium, #8 Rowdiest Stadium In NCAA

Wisconsin 44 NIU 3, after the game there were still 60,000 fans out of the original 82,000 fans in attendance to congratulate the rising powerhouse Wisconsin on their dominance over me and my Huskie teammates. The stadium is known as the number 8 hardest and rowdiest stadium to play in out of 119 stadiums. It wasn't just Camp Randall's fans and team, but it was the history of the stadium that made it so eye-opening. Hearing that Camp Randall was originally a Civil War training ground for 70,000 Union soldiers, is humbling in itself. Going onto the field looking up and seeing the sea of red all around you is intimidating for the young, inexperienced, and emotionally beat-up teams. In fact not only us bottom 10 teams have a hard time in Camp Randall, but even the top 25 teams would find themselves trailing at the end of the game. When the word home-field advantage is mentioned i now can only think of Camp Randall. The Wisconsin Badgers are truly a lucky team to be playing in an environment like that every home game. Going into practically every game as the favorite or if not favorite, the look-out-upset team of the week, primarily based on the home field advantage. Thinking back on the game, even though we lost against Wisconsin, i still have to be thankful for being able to play (more time then expected) at such an amazing historical facility. It truly was an amazing experience. To Camp Randall Stadium, to the Wisconsin Badgers, to the Budweiser beer song, to the crazy chants, to the huge massive wave of red, to the sheer loudness of the fans, to the 4th quarter jump around, and to the famed "Fifth Quarter".....................I Salute You.

Nolan Owen???

I am Nolan Owen, I am a football player for the Northern Illinois Huskies, and I'm from California...Southern California to be exact. Although i may be from so cal, i do not live 5 minutes from the beach, and i do not surf. I've played main stream sports my whole life. Baseball… was to boring, basketball… i was too short, so i got dominated, but football and ice hockey were and still are what i play. Anyways, i came out here to illinois, because it gave me the best opportunity to live my dream, which was to get a full ride scholarship in football and start as a freshman. I was offered a preferred walk-on spot at USC, but i denied the offer once NIU came into my life. I have been a USC fan ever since i was a little kid, so obviously it was my dream to play for the Trojans, but as i got older i developed a bigger dream, to do what people said i couldn't do. I have accomplished a part of my dream, by recieveing a full ride scholarship for football; people said i couldnt do that because of my position, and start as a freshman; people thought i would be too young. Well i have two parts of my dream done, and one still left to accomplish, which is the one major factor that motivated my decision in becoming a Huskie, which is to go into the NFL. NIU is offering me the best chance to do that because of the playing time that i am getting here, that USC could not offer to me. The NFL is all about politics, and you have to know how to work the system, and this is the most beneficial way for me to do that. It is really hard to be so far away from family, friends, and really close loved ones, but they all accept my decision and are all behind me 100%. I hope to in the rest of my blogs help you, the reader, my audience, get a better understanding of who I am, and what are my feelings about this life we live in today.