Travis Hunter injury uproar has some Nebraska football fans reminding Colorado about Adrian Martinez

While CU fans are rightfully angry about Travis Hunter’s injury, Nebraska football fans are pointing out, Colorado hasn’t always been the innocent victim

The hit on Travis Hunter in Colorado’s game against Colorado State was inexcusable. It was the kind of hit that officials are trying to remove from college football.

However, the massive outcry from CU fans over Hunter’s injury, including apparently some people actually threatening the life of CSU player Henry Blackburn has spurred some Nebraska football fans to remind their counterparts they are standing in some pretty massive glass houses.

Former On3 and 247Sports reporter Tim Verghese pointed out why some Nebraska football fans think Buffaloes supporters need to stop with the extreme reactions.

“Colorado fans didn’t exist back in 2018 so they’re probably unfamiliar, but this is what intentionally trying to hurt an opponent looks like,” he wrote on Twitter (or X) on Monday afternoon.

Along with that caption, Verghese showed a clip of the 2018 game between the Nebraska football team and Colorado where Adrian Martinez was getting tackled by a gang of Buffs. The video shows #44 of Colorado on the bottom of a pile of players. The defender is very clearly grabbing Adrian Martinez’s foot and twisting. Not to make a tackle, but apparently to hurt the quarterback once the play was over.

Nebraska football fans reminding CU about Adrian Martinez

Verghese wasn’t the only Husker fan who found Colorado’s outcry a little strange, considering Buffaloes fans have done things equally as dirty as Blackburn’s hit.

The point of those tweets seems pretty clear. It’s not that Nebraska football fans believe what Travis Hunter is going through after announcing he has a lacerated liver is right or good.

He was the victim of a hit that should have seen Blackburn ejected from the game. While it doesn’t appear he’ll be suspended, it wouldn’t have been out of line for head coach Jay Norvell to sit him for a game.

What Nebraska football fans want their Colorado counterparts to realize is that these kinds of hits occur every so often in college football. And that is best demonstrated by the fact that it wasn’t all that long ago that the Huskers were the receiving end of that kind of play.