For My Fellow Huskers

I brought a Nebraska Cornhuskers shirt to Spain. It's a simple white t-shirt and it says "Huskers" with a red underline and beneath that it says University of Nebraska and has the Big Red "N" at the end of Huskers & University of Nebraska. I brought this shirt to Spain for two reasons. 1) It's one of my few long sleeve t-shirts that isn't navy blue, and isn't just a plain solid colored shirt and 2) I gotta represent worldwide. Today I wore this shirt to class and my teacher asked "Que es Huskers?". What is Huskers? I then proceeded to explain to him (all in Spanish, of course) that it's the college football team and this is the name and mascot of the team. But he still didn't understand what exactly a Husker is and thought it was like huskies, the dogs. I continued to explain that the full name is Cornhuskers and it's the green part of the corn that you don't use. He then understood and said "Ohh farfollas!" and he looked in the dictionary and checked to make sure that we were talking about the same thing and indeed, we were. He then began to laugh because ¨farfollas¨ is also used a slang for a person who constantly talks about nothing or someone who is just full of hot air, as an example my professor said, a politican is also usually a ¨farfolla¨. So we are the Nebraska Farfollas, pronounced far (like far and away), foy (like foyer), yas (like the beginning of ya'll and with and s). Far-foy-yas. We are the Cornhuskers and also the people who are full of hot air, but for now, we´ll just stick to the exact translation. So perhaps the next time one of my fellow Nebraskans is at, or watching, a Husker sporting event, you could yell "Go Farfollas!" in honor of Spain learning about "Las Farfollas" Nebraska.
Go Farfollas!
:)
Andrea