The Cornhusker Vortex

This starts out with the foursome out flying kites in a competitive game. Raj and Howard lose because Howard chases after a jogger. The central plot has to do with Penny having some friends over to watch the Nebraska football game. She doesn't include Leonard and he becomes paranoid that she is too embarrassed to introduce him. So he decides to learn football in a week. Eventually, Sheldon teaches him (being from Texas, he knows everything about the game). This leads to some pretty funny stuff at the next party. He quotes things Sheldon has told him and they seem utterly out of place. Quite a funny episode.

When Leonard and Howard ask Sheldon how he knows so much about football???Sheldon talks about growing up in Texas. However he doesn't mention one ioda about his father being a high school football coach. If only the writers of Big Bang Theory had a crystal ball and they could see what takes place with the future hit Young Sheldon. BBT would have never have had Sheldon and Sheldon's mom say such terrible things about his father throughout the BBT series. The Young Sheldon writers would loved to have not had this problem because anybody who watches Young Sheldon knows that the dad actually plays a quite lovable character. So now it becomes very complicated on how to write out the George character on Young Sheldon. This was a typically funny Big Bang Theory episode but for anybody that watches Young Sheldon they know that it would be quite odd for Sheldon not to have immediately brought up that his dad was a high school football coach when asked about the subject.

This again feels like a bit of an episode that runs out of steam, but there are more than enough lovely moments for fans to enjoy.

I liked the Raj and Howard storyline too.

Overall, another good episode.