The University of Nebraska will halt its decades-long tradition of releasing balloons at Huskers football games due to a helium shortage. On Monday, University of Nebraska athletic director Trev ...

The Nebraska football program is taking the air out of one of its biggest traditions. The team will not release balloons following its first touchdown at home -- something it has done since the 1960s ...

The tradition is being suspended due to a global helium shortage, according to the school's athletic director The University of Nebraska's Cornhuskers football team will suspend its decades-long red ...

One of the longest-standing traditions in college football won’t occur this fall. Since the 1940s, Nebraska fans at Memorial Stadium have released red balloons after the Huskers score their first ...

Nebraska Athletics subsequently issued a statement confirming the news of the balloons returning Memorial Stadium, though not on full-time basis: "Saturday’s football game with Colorado and the events ...

Nebraska football traded in their usual scarlet and cream for black Saturday night in the game against No. 23 USC.

The red balloons NU fans normally release after the home team's first score at Memorial Stadium will not fly this year, Nebraska athletic director Trev Alberts announced Monday night during his radio ...

A post on social media fans Thursday afternoon suggested the red balloons will be back Saturday night. A statement from Husker Athletics confirmed that. "Saturday's football game with Colorado and the ...

A fan-favorite tradition for Nebraska football could be making a return to Memorial Stadium - or is at least being teased by the Huskers athletic director. Many Nebraska fans in the replies stated ...