While Christi and I were hopelessly cheering on Suh to win the Heisman Saturday night, I saw something that was hilarious that the broadcasters were kind enough to not call out. Every year before the award is handed out, all of the past winners that are able to make it to the ceremony are invited on stage to serve as a backdrop before that year's winner is announced.

They start from left to right and go from the least recent winner to the most current one. The shot starts out showing six, yes six, winners from the 50's. That's amazing in it's own right. Then they get to '72 winner and show Johnny Rodgers striking a Heisman pose, which was a little cliche considering you're only surrounded by other winners. A few seconds later we get to '83 to see Mike Rozier still wearing his Halloween costume, or looking like a pimp, I really couldn't decide which was more appropriate. Don't get me wrong, I love to bask in the "glory days" of Nebraska's past winners, and Johnny is a strange character, but to see Rozier looking the way he did was unreal. We then move our way slowly towards the 90's and the more recent winners.

Looking through the crowd shots earlier that night, I did notice Eric Crouch looked normal, and almost like royalty compared to the other Husker winners, so I was glad they would end on a good note ... or so I thought. They finally get to the 2000 winners, and who's the only person standing there? The one and only Eric Crouch. And by one and only, I literally mean that he was the only guy standing there. At first I thought it was cool that he was honored by himself, but then I realized why he was standing all alone.

I turned to Christi and before I could end my question of "Why is he the only one out there?," I realized that everyone else was in the NFL and they had a game to prep for. Don't get me wrong, if I won the Heisman, I would be up on that stage every year as well, but I would hope it wouldn't be at the cost of it meaning my career was over that soon. It was just sad to realize why he stood by himself and the two of us wondered if anyone else noticed it as well.

I'm a little biased, but Crouch was a great college football player and, in my mind, deserved to win the award in a down year in '01. As long as Tebow doesn't score four rushing touchdowns in the Sugar Bowl, Crouch will still hold the all-time QB touchdown record with 59. A mark that might stand for a very long time to come.

About Suh: It was good to see that a defensive lineman was recognized for the award. I thought he had a great year, but I didn't think it was enough to justify giving him the Heisman. The truckload of other awards he won this year will hopefully suffice. However, the fact that he finished first in the Southwest Region (same region as Colt McCoy, who finished above him overall), that he beat out '07 winner Tebow and had the most 4th place votes of any Heisman finalist in the history of the award is absolutely outstanding.

Maybe not winning the Heisman isn't such a bad thing after all. With the NFL career that everyone is expecting him to have, he probably wouldn't have been able to come back and stand next to Crouch for a good twelve to fifteen years down the road.