Nebraska won spring football

[Fishy]

Perhaps the finest 70-yard run you'll ever see.

Some background on the boy from ESPN's writeup - seven-years old, brain tumor, 60-week chemo regimen...perhaps the toughest person on the field.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

Takes a lot to get me choked up. That did it.

 

[Dooley]

Yeah, that was really awesome.

 

[Jimdish255]

MVPerson

 

[uconnbill]

Perhaps the finest 70-yard run you'll ever see.

Some background on the boy from ESPN's writeup - seven-years old, brain tumor, 60-week chemo regimen...perhaps the toughest person on the field.

That was simply awesome!

 

[Fishy]

It's really a great thing.

If you look at the official stats of the spring game, it's right there - the touchdown counted and the leading rusher in the game was Jack Hoffman.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

One of the best things I've ever seen!

I was a huge Nebraska fan from back in the Devaney days (there was nothing local to root for then) until my alma mater decided to move up to the top level of college football (which came close to coinciding with Osborne's retirement). I still followed them a little until Solich was canned, but they now warrant a good amount more of my attention (will always be stuck at #2 however).

 

[UConnDan97]

I don't like Nebraska at all, but how can you not like this. Only one criticism; that pansy QB had better get his butt out in front to block a little faster...

 

[husky210]

Amazing

 

[SubbaBub]

That was very cool.

 

[ZooCougar]

I totally choked up.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Well done.

Only question is if the kid is a jaguar?

 

[ZooCougar]

Well done.

Only question is if the kid is a jaguar?

Lol.

Dummy DeLeone would have sent him up the middle 40 times a game.

 

[HartfordHank]

perhaps the toughest person on the field.

Great comment! Reminds me of the scene from the John Cappalletti movie about his Heisman Trophy season. His little brother had cancer or leukemia. The star line backer on the team comes back from having a spinal tap after an injury and tells him how painful it was. Cappalletti calls him a wimp and tells him his little brother has one twice a month and never complains about the pain. It is at that point that he realizes how tough his little brother really was.

 

[HuskyHawk]

One of the best things I've ever seen!

I was a huge Nebraska fan from back in the Devaney days (there was nothing local to root for then) until my alma mater decided to move up to the top level of college football (which came close to coinciding with Osborne's retirement). I still followed them a little until Solich was canned, but they now warrant a good amount more of my attention (will always be stuck at #2 however).

Very cool. Inspiring for the team, and hopefully gives Jack more strength to keep fighting.

I've been a Nebraska fan since the early 70's. My family is from Big 8 country and I adopted them and decided to hate OU. Once I went to KU for law school, the Huskers bumped down to #2 (though I finally got to see them live twice), and then when UConn stepped up to FBS everybody else slotted down a spot. Hence my desire for the next B1G move to be UConn and Kansas.

 

[beasteast]

god bless that little guy.... never like N, but this is just fantastic ... had to wipe my eyes

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Very cool. Inspiring for the team, and hopefully gives Jack more strength to keep fighting.

I've been a Nebraska fan since the early 70's. My family is from Big 8 country and I adopted them and decided to hate OU. Once I went to KU for law school, the Huskers bumped down to #2 (though I finally got to see them live twice), and then when UConn stepped up to FBS everybody else slotted down a spot. Hence my desire for the next B1G move to be UConn and Kansas.

In the mid '90's I met (at a company picnic) one of the senior members of the firm my ex worked for who was from Nebraska. He knew Jeff Kinney from high school and took a number of classes with Larry Jacobson (I didn't know until then that Jacobson was an academic AA and was extremely successful as an investment banker after his football career). I spent most of the picnic talking about the 70 & 71 championship teams.

 

[progrocks]

This has to be a NCAA violation. I expect the NCAA taking a hard line on this soon.

 

[EdgewoodNHV]

Geez, Nebraska looks awful. How can you not make the hit on a small child?! What a bunch of pushovers.

 

[HuskyDogArt]

Perhaps the finest 70-yard run you'll ever see.

Some background on the boy from ESPN's writeup - seven-years old, brain tumor, 60-week chemo regimen...perhaps the toughest person on the field.

I saw it yesterday on Fox News Channel's 'The Five'. The Cornhuskers are a favorite team of mine, now because of that.

 

[HuskyDogArt]

Great comment! Reminds me of the scene from the John Cappalletti movie about his Heisman Trophy season. His little brother had cancer or leukemia. The star line backer on the team comes back from having a spinal tap after an injury and tells him how painful it was. Cappalletti calls him a wimp and tells him his little brother has one twice a month and never complains about the pain. It is at that point that he realizes how tough his little brother really was.

Joey Cappalletti had leukemia. I met him in 72 when my uncle took us to a PSU game. (they are season tix holders since 1930s). (That is one reason why I'd like to see UConn in the B1G)