I used to go down to Hermosa Beach and watch the games.. I forget the name of the bar. I’ve since moved back to Texas.

Awww, I’m from Nebraska too! And I live in LA! I watch the Tom Osborne DVDs every once in awhile. It always gives me motivation to be a better person!

By the way, where do you watch the games when in LA?

Just came upon this, I have never seen a truer account of what it means to be a Husker. I grew up in McCook and Papillion, left for college in Chicago and just came back and I tell you there is no place like Nebraska, no team like Nebraska, no community like Nebraska.

I am a farm boy from Nebraska now living in DC. I loved the article. Reminded me of the times I spent listening to the games from the tractor radio or when a student at UNL getting “primed” for the games. Hopefully the ‘skers can bring back that old time smashmouth football.

Wow. Just found this. Grew up in Culbertson (just west of McCook), attended UNL, now living in San Diego. This says it all. If Nebraska is in our blood, this is what we’re all about. (Took my son, a San Diego native, to Nebraska vs Iowa State in 2007. It was life-changing for him, and it was a crappy season.)

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The greatest article ever compiled on a blog. I read this and watched the video and I cried. I grew up in Nebraska in Scottsblufff. My father was born there. Watch the Huskers every saturday. Saddest day was when Tom Osborne retired. Thanks for the post.

Growing up in Nebraska and participating in the magic of Husker football as a member of the Cornhusker Marching Band, I must complement you on your article. It can be difficult trying to express in words what it means to come from Nebraska and the connection established with the university’s football team. Truly, it is a bond with the past and a promise of the future in what it means to be a Nebraskan.

I AM A HUSKER, Class of 72, I was a cub scout and Boy Scout when Coach Jennings could not fill the 35,000 seats of memorial stadium, Growing up, one of my most treasured possession was a Thunder Thornton chin strap tossed to the herd of kids following the team back to the locker room.

Being from Nebraska and cheering for Nebraska provides us with a perspective that many of our peers do not have. We have seen them win big (Oklahoma,Texas, Colorado, win small (fumblerooski) , lose big (Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado) and lose small (going for the win and failing in the Orange Bowl when a tie would guarantee a National Title), but each of these games was fought fairly and with respect. How many top 20 coaches would take a knee at the Wake Forest 1 yard line, and not roll over when being outmatched by a superior USC team, playing and scoring when all hope of winning was lost. Nebraskans can always hold their heads high, whether we win or lose, !

Thank you Coach Devaney, Coach Osborne, Coach Solich, Coach Callahan for making Nebraska a class act.

How Husker Football has Contributed to Nebraska’s CharacterBy Brian Lee I grew up in a small suburban town on the southernmost tip of Omaha, where the rolling hills of the Missouri valley meet the flats of the Platte River basin. To the north of our modest home was the largest city in Nebraska: almost a

WOW! You have said it and have made Husker Fans (no matter where they are today) VERY proud to say they are a HUSKER!

Great article Brian. You nailed it.

Nice list of successful people, but the other thing this list of Nebraska notables has in common, most of them moved AWAY from Nebraska (four out of six anyway). Buffett lives in Omaha today, and Cather wasn’t born in Nebraska, but moved there when she young. She wrote her most famous books while living in New Hampshire. Astaire, Brando and Carson ended up living in California and Ford was a Michigan man through and through (and really shouldn’t even be on this list). Johnny Carson was born in Iowa.

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