I played midget football with Jeff Kinney Jr. He was our QB and his dad coached our team!
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Degrees of Separation for Husker Fans
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I played midget football with Jeff Kinney Jr. He was our QB and his dad coached our team!
This is unrelated, but every time this name is mentioned my mind goes back to the look on dirty Steve's face in Young Guns.
When I was in hospital administration, we worked with a marketing firm in the DFW area. My contact there ... somehow we got to talking about college football and I discovered she was Tim Albin's mother-in-law. Tim was on staff at the time. My daughter's high school coach at Amarillo High was Kory Cooper, former AA and national champion volleyball player at Nebraska. Her brother lives a block from me. A good friend of mine, a doctor here, his daughter was a cheerleader at Nebraska. Paul Engler, major benefactor and former regent at UNL, lives here, and is also a major benefactor to my alma mater, West Texas A&M University. I used to work with his new wife. His most recent donation to WTA&M is $1 million per year, in perpetuity. :O O:
Amarillo and the Texas panhandle have a volume of Nebraska connections.
Amarillo and the Texas panhandle have a volume of Nebraska connections.
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Went to the UCLA game at the Rosebowl in 88. Talked to the Nebraska fans behind me. They were from Ashton. (My Dad's hometown) turns out they were just a few years behind him in school and knew my Dad's whole family.
Then about ten years ago Went to Northwestern with my son and some young kids behind me. Found out they were from North Platte and went to St Pats. I grew up with one of their Dads.
So approx 30 years later I had the same thing happen in reverse.
When we decided to make the move back to my wife's home state of South Dakota (after our military retirement) we had an unexpected interaction with a former Husker player.
We went to the local AT&T store for new phones etc. I was wearing a Husker hat and shirt and our consultant introduced himself as Cartier Walker
Needless to say a long conversation about all things Nebraska football ensued. He had a lot if great stories playing in the late 1980's and some pointed opinions about the state of the team and staff at that time 2015-2016
He told me was the DC & S&C coach at SD School of Mines for a few years
I saw him a few times after that and it was always fun talking Husker Football and where life had taken him since his playing days
That was a pretty cool unexpected encounter
We went to the local AT&T store for new phones etc. I was wearing a Husker hat and shirt and our consultant introduced himself as Cartier Walker
Needless to say a long conversation about all things Nebraska football ensued. He had a lot if great stories playing in the late 1980's and some pointed opinions about the state of the team and staff at that time 2015-2016
He told me was the DC & S&C coach at SD School of Mines for a few years
I saw him a few times after that and it was always fun talking Husker Football and where life had taken him since his playing days
That was a pretty cool unexpected encounter
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Fun thread that I must have missed the first time around...
Here is a short but fun one:
Two or so years ago my family and I were on a Caribbean cruise and ported at Grand Cayman. We did a short tour of a sea turtle farm, wearing our Husker garb, when what I assumed to be a local with his long grey beard and long grey dreadlocks and Rastafarian hat moseyed over and asked if I knew who Jarvis Redwine was. Upon confirming that I did, he went on to tell me that Jarvis was his top competition running sprints in Los Angeles track meets. Once Jarvis joined the Cornhuskers, he became a lifelong Nebraska fan.
Here is a short but fun one:
Two or so years ago my family and I were on a Caribbean cruise and ported at Grand Cayman. We did a short tour of a sea turtle farm, wearing our Husker garb, when what I assumed to be a local with his long grey beard and long grey dreadlocks and Rastafarian hat moseyed over and asked if I knew who Jarvis Redwine was. Upon confirming that I did, he went on to tell me that Jarvis was his top competition running sprints in Los Angeles track meets. Once Jarvis joined the Cornhuskers, he became a lifelong Nebraska fan.
That had to be interesting to "say" the least.
And sonny hasn't been back since
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I was at church parking my car that’s covered in Huskers stickers and magnets and a young man yells out of his car, “Hey, my cousin is Harrison Beck”. That’s when he was at Nebraska. It was in Vero Bech, Florida.
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Probably not what @BigRedMax was looking for.
Well…on the day of my birth I was delivered by Rex Fischer.
I guess it was meant to be that I would become a Nebraska fan.
Well…on the day of my birth I was delivered by Rex Fischer.
I guess it was meant to be that I would become a Nebraska fan.
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Years ago I had to call back to our company's HQ in Pennsylvania. The woman saw in the system that I was in Omaha, NE. She asked if I was a Nebraska football fan. I answered "Of course". She said her daughter was Lil' Red. Or at least one of the six who wore the Lil' Red uniform. I asked if she or her family were from Nebraska. She said they had no ties to the state of Nebraska or the university, but her daughter insisted on going to UNL.
All I could do was congratulate her for raising her daughter right!
All I could do was congratulate her for raising her daughter right!
