****Favorite all-time Nebraska Cornhuskers****

[MeetTheFerentz]

Uh, oh. I've been dreading this one, but our friends to the West are next on the list.

Please try to keep this thread positive. Think of it as a celebration of our college football memories. If you simply have nothing good to say, I kindly ask that you not participate. Any shots taken at Husker Nation will certainly be countered by the lingering trolls, and I really don't want this thread to be yet another spit-balling sh*t-show.

If you've got some favorite Husker football players, perhaps from their pre-B1G glory days, that you'd like to recognize, please feel free to do it here without retribution. Or perhaps there's an athlete from another sport or a celebrity alum. Let's put the hate aside for the sake of keeping this string of threads honorable.

I'll start:

Neil Smith
Classic case of hating a player on a rival team (Chiefs), but loving him on your team (Broncos)

 

[BlackNGoldBleeder]

I'm sorry. I can't.

 

[myteamcanbeatupyourteam]

Uncle Rico. Also, the one that was a criminal and used steroids...does that narrow it down enough?

 

[anon_likibb9jzd3e0]

Ugh. Do I have to?

 

[DutchyFunStar]

Tom Rathman, although I only recall his 49er days, not his Husker days

 

[LarryMullenJr.]

Trev Alberts always seemed to like us during his time as a commentator. Does that count?

 

[HemiHawk]

 

[beatdahuskers]

Bill Calahan - loved the 70-10 loss to Texas Tech

 

[FlickShagwell]

Trev Alberts always seemed to like us during his time as a commentator. Does that count?

I worked the door at an Omaha bar back in 2003 and Eric Crouch and Matt Davison would come in every Thursday night. Crouch was actually a pretty nice dude. I teased him about Nebraska vs. Iowa every now and then. “You’re lucky that wasn’t Bob Sanders you trucked in ‘99.” I talked him into teaching me how to perfectly pitch the option. (You want the fingers on the laces and it’s a flick of the wrist - that’s made me exactly zero money to this day). So he was a good sport.

Also when I was a student at UNL in the fall of 2001, this quiet, scrawny, but really nice kid named Mike would come to house parties at my place and one time he told me he was on the football team. I looked at him and said “me too” and chugged a beer. Turns out he actually was. He was Mike Stuntz and he threw the TD pass to Crouch against OU that year that basically made Crouch a lock for the Heisman.

 

[BBHawk]

*

* there are none.

 

[Kilkenny31]

Roger Craig without a doubt. A blue devil btw. Known the Craig family my whole life. Was in school at the same time as Artez and Lisa. Roger was 4 years older. Great guy, was a great wrestler....but he did go to Nebraska which I have never forgiven him.

 

[somebody once]

Calvin Jones
Eric Piatkowski

 

[Hawkdiver]

Pat Tyrance although I'm biased as we went to high school together. Incredible LB that was drafted by the Rams but shunned the NFL for Harvard Med school. I had completely lost touch with him until I walked into my uncles hospital room post surgery and there was my old friend playing doctor.

 

[mvhomerl]

I. M. Hipp on name alone.

 

[TheCDiggity]

Ameer Abdullah

 

[Quintana]

mike riley

 

[93hawkeye]

not any one player in particular, but the '94-95 Fball team cuz of what they did to the U in the Orange Bowl

 

[Kinnick.At.Night]

Tom Osborne’s safe. Best guard the program ever had.

 

[ctghawk]

Trev Alberts always seemed to like us during his time as a commentator. Does that count?

Johnny Rodgers

 

[deanhawk88]

Any Husker in handcuffs!

 

[LarryMullenJr.]

I. M. Hipp on name alone.

I may unintentionally veer (pun alert) this thread off course, but if that's a real name, it may be the best name in CFB history.

 

[BBHawk]

I may unintentionally veer (pun alert) this thread off course, but if that's a real name, it may be the best name in CFB history.

Someone was named "unintentionally"? Weird!

 

[Stormn Norman]

I really would have liked Tommy Frazier! Had he not gone to Nebraska!

 

[NevadaHawk]

None, hate them all.

 

[DogBoyRy]

I really would have liked Tommy Frazier! Had he not gone to Nebraska!

Andre Woolridge.

 

[TheTruthTheWholeTruth]

Andre Woolridge

 

[LAhawkeye]

Football players... no.

Johnny Carson
Gabrielle Union
Larry the Cable Guy

 

[Galenahawk]

Trev Alberts (he loved the Hawks as an analyst) and Roger Craig

 

[anon_likibb9jzd3e0]

Tommy Lee.

 

[MikeT2425]

Rich Glover. Owned OU's all American center in the big game.

 

[HungryHawk]

Nile Kinnick attended high school in Omaha and was first team all state in football and basketball.

Does that count?

 

[FlickShagwell]

Nile Kinnick attended high school in Omaha and was first team all state in football and basketball.

Does that count?

For 1 year. The first 17 years of his life were spent in Adel Iowa. 25% credit.

 

[switherb]

Grant Wistrom, Ahman Green, Jay Foreman, Mike Rucker, Jared Tomich, Aaron Graham Jason Peter, Mike Brown, Ralph Brown, Bobby Necombe Eric Crouch, Adam Carriker, Rex Burkhead, Suh, Jared Crick, LaVonte David, Prince, Kenny Bell

Ohhh Scott Frost

 

[beatdahuskers]

For 1 year. The first 17 years of his life were spent in Adel Iowa. 25% credit.

Bad math. 1/17=5.88% credit

 

[ClarindaA's]

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I worked the door at an Omaha bar back in 2003 and Eric Crouch and Matt Davison would come in every Thursday night. Crouch was actually a pretty nice dude. I teased him about Nebraska vs. Iowa every now and then. “You’re lucky that wasn’t Bob Sanders you trucked in ‘99.” I talked him into teaching me how to perfectly pitch the option. (You want the fingers on the laces and it’s a flick of the wrist - that’s made me exactly zero money to this day). So he was a good sport.

Also when I was a student at UNL in the fall of 2001, this quiet, scrawny, but really nice kid named Mike would come to house parties at my place and one time he told me he was on the football team. I looked at him and said “me too” and chugged a beer. Turns out he actually was. He was Mike Stuntz and he threw the TD pass to Crouch against OU that year that basically made Crouch a lock for the Heisman.

mother..f.cker.....we went to the same school

 

[HungryHawk]

For 1 year. The first 17 years of his life were spent in Adel Iowa. 25% credit.

Yeah I know but it was the best I could come up with.

 

[rchawk]

I was a Colts fan before I moved to Chicago. DE John Dutton was a Husker in college and one of the best defensive ends in the NFL during his time.

 

[Obviously Oblivious]

Irving Fryar
Dave Hoppen (family connection)
Warren Buffett

 

[FlickShagwell]

mother..f.cker.....we went to the same school

Who? I was only at UNL for 3 semesters. Got my act together and graduated from Iowa

 

[hawkfeever]

Tommy Armstrong was pretty good to the Hawks.