It's taken us through cornfields, over Chimney Rock, underneath the Kearney Archway and past a Heisman Trophy-posing Sower atop the Nebraska state capitol building, sometimes featuring a flock of geese in an 'N' formation.
We've seen Johnny's punt return, Tommie's run through gasping Gators, Tagge's goal-line leap and Crouch's demolition of a poor Iowa defensive back.
Devaney rallied the troops. Osborne rode the shoulders of players.
The voices of Lyell Bremser, Kent Pavelka, Keith Jackson, Jim Nantz and others have narrated highlights and tributes.
Trophies have busted through football fields and skyrocketed over stadiums, complete with laser beams. Players have parachuted out of airplanes and emerged from waterfalls. Former Huskers have taken a sledgehammer to opponents' logos, which have also been crushed or blown to bits by various means.
It all started with a simple flash of light.
Nebraska's famed Tunnel Walk entrance celebrates 25 years this weekend – its official birth was Sept. 17, 1994, before a nationally-televised game against UCLA. Fans attending a pep rally the previous night enjoyed a sneak peek of the new Husker Vision that made Memorial Stadium the first college-only stadium in the country to boast video boards.
Those fans didn't, however, know what they'd see the next day: Some flashes of light, the beginning strains of "Sirius" and two video boards showing 76,000 people what a few hundred had been witnessing for years – the Huskers emerging from their locker room, hyped, bouncing their way to their field entrance.
No video. No graphics. No highlights.
Just those light flashes – the technical term "star swipe," said Kirk Hartman.
"That's honestly all we had," said Hartman, today the director of Husker Vision. "And then we went right to the team."
For 17 years, Mike Hodges operated the camera that showed the team emerging from the locker room. The first Tunnel Walk, he admits, wasn't anything exciting or special – at least, to him.
"Until we did it the next time," Hodges said, "then we realized that, 'Wow! The crowd's really reacting.' As soon as the – way back then, it was just a star swipe – as soon as that hit, the crowd just went crazy.
Hartman and Hodges both wish Jeff Schmahl could share his story. Schmahl, the former KOLN/KGIN sportscaster, joined the Nebraska athletic department to help begin Husker Vision and is credited for creating the Tunnel Walk.
Schmahl died of cancer in 2015. He was 58.
"He definitely was the guiding force behind not only Husker Vision, but also the Tunnel Walk," said Hodges, who today helps the Tunnel Walk production from the control room. "As far as I'm concerned, he was father of all of that. It was his imagination and his drive to get it done."
Hodges, Hartman and engineer Shot Kleen, who's since retired, all began as freelancers before joining the Husker Vision staff full time in the late 1990s.
Was Hodges surprised the Tunnel Walk captivated fans as quickly as it did?
"Oh, absolutely," he said. "I never imagined anything like that. There were just so many new things to us back then, that we just had no idea that that was going to be so popular."
That Nebraska won the national championship in the first year of the Tunnel Walk, of course, contributed to its success.
"And the next year," Hartman said, "3D animation was kind of the big deal coming in."
That's when the Husker Vision staff joined with the Snitily-Carr production group and worked together to create graphics to accompany the Tunnel Walk. The first such graphic was the 1994 Sears Trophy emerging through the Memorial Stadium field with a "1994 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS" title.
That highlighted the 1995 Tunnel Walk. A few years later, the group had three national championship trophies with which to work.
And that's when the fun really began.
"It was like every year," Hartman said, "we had to beat the year before. It got kind of tough."
In the late 2000s, the Husker Vision staff took sole control of the Tunnel Walk, which featured less animation and more videos and highlights.
Among the first such Tunnel Walks was in 2006, when Lincoln native and walk-on Brandon Rigoni, among others, participated in the "I Play for Nebraska" theme.
"Heart is finding the strength to run down the field one more time when you can barely breathe."
Jackson, the late, legendary ABC-TV broadcaster, concluded the montage.
"Can you think of a better place to be than Memorial Stadium? Now THIS IS college football."
That's among Hartman's favorite Tunnel Walks.
"But our sound system was not quite up to the challenge then," he said. "We probably had the cart before the horse a little bit."
Actually, Hartman's all-time favorite Tunnel Walk, hands down, was the 2001 game against Rice, moved to a Thursday night after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
To this day, it's the only Tunnel Walk that didn't feature the Nebraska team emerging from the locker room. Instead, the cameras revealed policemen and firefighters behind the locker room hallway doors, as they carried the American flag.
"In all the years of cool animation and trophies flying around, I think of that one," Hartman said. "It brings a lump to your throat."
Another special Tunnel Walk came in 2012, with a tribute to legnendary coach and retiring athletic director Tom Osborne. He and former coach Bo Pelini led the Huskers out of the locker room.
Said the late Adrian Fiala, the former Husker player and radio analyst who described that Tunnel Walk on the Husker Sports Network: "I've been coming here for a long time, guys, and that's the most emotional moment I've ever seen."
Brenden Stai, director of development for Nebraska athletics, was an offensive lineman who experienced the walk from the locker room to the stadium entrance before – and after – the video addition.
"It was always something special, but with the music, it kind of turned into this more of a connection," Stai said. "It brought the fans a little closer to the actual energy we had coming out, having them see us walking out and bouncing around."
Hodges, meanwhile, depended on the help of student workers dragging the camera cable cords and guiding him in the right direction, considering he was moving backward throughout the production.
"You just kind of let yourself go and be in their hands," Hodges said. "The fun part, when Tom was there, he would look at his watch, and it was time to go. I always remembered that.
"Most of the other coaches were pretty good – they'd sit there and wait for you to signal and that sort of stuff. Tom, he looked at his watch, and it was time to go."
And while the Huskers went, opposing teams learned, after a few years, to sit back for a while, and then enter.
"Just to have that opening, and a lot of the teams would come out first and watch that," Hartman said. "Years later, they would stay in the locker room. They wouldn't come out because of the intimidation factor.
"Every little bit counts, right?"
It has for 25 years, and still does, to this day.
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