It wasn’t enough that the Nebraska Cornhuskers, Bob Devaney, Frank Solich, Tom Osborne, and Johnny Rodgers all became part of DCU canon in the first few episodes of the HBO Max series, Lanterns. Current Huskers head coach Matt Rhule and his 2027 recruiting class are part of that canon too, along with talented Rushville quarterback Noah Macon.
All of this is good advertising for Nebraska in general (even if it pokes fun at small-town Nebraska and Husker fans plenty of times), but it also gave social media trolls something new to complain about. Not that social media trolls need any more things to complain about, since they complain about literally everything.
On Sunday night, when Rhule made a cameo in the season finale of Lanterns, some trolls decided to rip the Nebraska coach for “taking time away from his team” to be on the show. In the process, it seems they don’t understand that the comic book show about the galactic super cop Green Lantern isn’t filmed in front of a live audience…