Night Editor {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Sixteen stories below me, and a Hail Mary away, is a sleeping giant. The bleachers at Memorial Stadium are empty, the video board a small, black rectangle.
The pale blue sky is empty, too, and the horizon seems to go on forever. It's no wonder that when people first walk into Paula Harre and Dan Duncan's condo on the west side of Lied Place, they look north. Paula Harre and Dan Duncan pose for a photo with Memorial Stadium behind them seen from their Lied Place condominium on Monday.
"They walk over to the windows," Harre said. "Everybody does." Harre and Duncan are among the few people in Lincoln to have such a commanding living-room view of the stadium, which on Saturday will look drastically different.
It makes quite the backdrop when the retired couple — Harre is an orthodontist and taught at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry and Duncan is the former executive director of Nebraska Innovation Campus — host guests for a high-rise tailgate before going to the game. "Oh, it's crazy," Harre said. "We can hear the tailgate at the Embassy (Suites), we can hear the band.
Even though we don't hear much up here most of the time, on gamedays we do." Typically, on fall Saturdays, the couple will have a few friends up before walking over to tailgates on the ground. A couple of years ago, Harre and Duncan hosted a party for Harre's dental.