Nebraska Fan’s Collection Husked

University of Nebraska fan Ray Petersen says he was  retrieving his collection of Huskers memorabilia from a storage unit he was renting in Omaha this week when he got a big surprise.

It was gone.

Years of collecting everything red and white from past to present went up in smoke at the hands of a burglar.

The storage unit manager says it probably happened August 14 when the normally locked gates were open for an on-site auction.

The dollar value seems excessive, especially since he didn’t mention anything like old game-worn jerseys or Tom Osborne’s playbooks…. but Petersen told a local TV station he had a lot of other stuff:

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