What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever found for sale on Facebook Marketplace? The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Athletics Department likely has it beat.
With a $600-million renovation, dubbed the Big Red Rebuild, scheduled to start at the university’s iconic Memorial Stadium as soon as football season ends, the school could use some extra scratch. Officials are selling certain pieces of the existing stadium that are too dated to keep around but too precious to throw away.
The urinal troughs from the men’s bathrooms in the stadium have apparently met those qualifications. They’re up for sale, each carrying a $3,000 price tag.
UNL is partnering with Rare Goods to sell off the troughs, which were a fixture at sports venues when Memorial Stadium opened in 1923.
For those who haven’t had the distinct pleasure of using one, urinal troughs are huge, elongated toilet bowls that lines of men can all use at once.
The tainted history of these large-scale commodes is not enough to dissuade some fans. At least six people having already jumped at the chance to own one at the time of Nebraska Public Media’s reporting on Oct. 2.
“For years, thousands of Husker fans walked into Memorial Stadium on foot.l,kball Saturdays and encountered one of the building’s most practical, unmistakable, and probably least-photographed fixtures: the stadium urinal trough,” reads the listing. “Now it is coming out too.
“For the Husker fan, this creates a unique, certainly unforgettable opportunity in the entire Memorial Stadium Collection,” the listing continues. “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.”
The site suggests turning the troughs into planters, displays for game rooms and man caves, yard ornaments, shop fixtures, or as the basis for an artistic endeavor.
Whatever use it finds, it will serve as a conversation starter for sure. But worth pissing away $3,000? That’s up to you.
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