EmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsYou've heard of buying your favorite team's merchandise or even a treasured season-ticket seat from an old stadium. But how about a urinal trough?That's the question Nebraska football is asking -- and reportedly has had answered, at least by a few fans.With Memorial Stadium in Lincoln set to undergo a $600 million renovation this coming offseason, the Cornhuskers announced Aug. 29 that they'd be selling off all sorts of soon-to-be removed items from their century-old home, including stadium seats, signs, suite items and, yes, urinals.And according to reports, several of the troughs already have been purchased.The urinal sale listing on the site for such purchases, buygbr.com, leans into the eccentricity of the item."For years, thousands of Husker fans walked into Memorial Stadium on football Saturdays and encountered one of the building's most practical, unmistakable, and probably least-photographed fixtures: the stadium urinal trough. Now it is coming out too," reads a description under the subhead, "Yes. This too.""For the Husker fan, this creates a unique, certainly unforgettable opportunity in the entire Memorial Stadium Collection. Nobody is going to walk into your garage, basement, shop, backyard, or Husker room and ask, 'Where did you find a stadium urinal trough?' They are going to ask: 'Wait. Is that actually from Memorial Stadium?' Yes. Yes, it is."To its credit, buygbr.com makes the case for a number of legitimate potential uses for a urinal trough from the 103-year-old facility; it's not the first time fans have had the opportunity to bring home such a lavatory accessory, after all. How about as a flower planter? Or a landing display for other team memorabilia? Or, simply, a unique (charitably characterized as "bold" by Nebraska) piece of outdoor decoration?The description offers another potential benefit, this one undeniable: Purchase the urinal and you receive "an almost guaranteed conversation starter."Or maybe it's just a way to say you're a bit more bought in on the cause than the rest."A pair of Memorial Stadium seats tells people you love Nebraska football," the website states. "A Memorial Stadium urinal trough tells them you have fully committed."Purchasing the urinal trough will set a potential buyer back $3,000. Each item is 300 pounds and measures 72 to 96 inches wide, 18 inches deep and 24 inches high.And yes, it will have been cleaned.
