Nebraska Rare Goods · Big Red Rebuild
Memorial Stadium is changing.
The stadium opened in 1923 as a memorial to Nebraskans who died in the First World War. The renovation keeps that memorial and replaces what is inside it. Rather than letting those pieces disappear, original seats, furnishings, signs and artifacts are being preserved and given the chance to find their next home.
What is coming out
Vintage signs, stadium seats and the fixtures people walked past for decades — the ordinary furniture of a Nebraska Saturday, alongside pieces most fans never saw. Each one is being preserved as the renovation reaches it.
Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College Concrete Medallion
$5,000
Drake University Concrete Medallion
$5,000
Washington University in St. Louis Concrete Medallion
$5,000
University of Nebraska Seal Concrete Medallion
$7,500
Commemorative AutoZone Liberty Bowl Sign
$1,000
Liberty Bowl Sign Nebraska’s 1977 Appearance
$1,000
Pacific Life Holiday Bowl Sign
$1,000
Valero Alamo Bowl Sign
$1,000
Removal
Crews work the building through the 2026 Big Red Rebuild. The window is real and it is finite — once a piece leaves with the renovation rather than with the collection, there is no second chance at it.
Sixty-one lines were approved for removal: 3,284 seats from the suite level, and 1,262 other objects — troughs, doors, signage, the run-out tunnel gates, locker stalls. Some of it is repaired and resold as itself. Some of it is too far gone and gets recast into something smaller.
Condition
These are sixty-year-old objects taken out of a working building with power tools. Expect scratches, fading, and wear where feet and hands found the same spot for forty seasons.
We get a piece ready for the person receiving it — cleaned enough to live indoors, any cut edge finished so it is safe to handle, condition graded honestly on its own entry. We do not repaint, we do not restore to new, and we do not take the rough edges off. The wear is what makes it genuine, and it is most of what you are buying.
Some objects will not survive extraction. If one of them is yours, we will offer you the nearest equivalent — the same row where we can — at the price you paid, or refund you without being asked.
Authentication
Everything leaves with a certificate naming where in the building it came from — the section and row for a seat, the location for anything else. Objects are tagged before they are unbolted, not after they reach the warehouse, so the record is made at the point it is still verifiable.
The programme is officially licensed by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Nothing here is a reproduction.
Collection
Large objects are picked up in Lincoln by appointment once removal finishes. A pair of seats weighs around seventy pounds and does not fit in a sedan — bring a truck or an estate car with the seats down.
Smaller pieces — plaques, pulls, hardware — ship to street addresses in the contiguous United States. Each entry says which applies before you buy it.