My wife’s family is huge boosters at Nebraska (not her, she’s too smart for that school), & when I first met her we were in Arizona, so we came to her home in Omaha for Thanksgiving with ALL her family. That was the year Colorado blew out #1 Nebraska (but Nebraska still went to the total & got destroyed by Miami), and during the game a made a comment that Nebraska was going to get ran over, & her 25 year old cousin, who didn’t even know me, threw a metal fork at my face.
That’s how serious those people took that Nebraska/Colorado game in the late 90’s, early 2000’s.