Memorial Stadium
Since the 1994 season, Nebraska's home games have opened with the Tunnel Walk. Before the team enters, the HuskerVision screens light up with a burst of computer animation, and "Sirius" (an instrumental by The Alan Parsons Project) blares from the speakers. Accompanied by cheers from the crowd, the Huskers take the field. When the Cornhuskers play at home in Memorial Stadium, the stadium holds more people than the third-largest city in Nebraska, Bellevue. They currently hold the record for the most consecutive sold out home games, which celebrated its 325th sellout on November 17, 2012 when the Huskers played host to the University of Minnesota. The stadium is currently under construction to add approximately 6,000 additional seats bringing attendance to over 92,000 on game days. The sellout streak dates back to November 3, 1962 during Bob Devaney's first season at Nebraska. The Huskers lost the first game in the current streak, a Homecoming game, to Missouri 16–7; 36,501 fans were in attendance.
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