One of my good friends is a lifelong NU fan. He grew up in CO, but his family is from NE and they are all diehard NU fans. I knew his older brother quite well growing up.
His older brother's kid was recently diagnosed with some form of cancer. Apparently he's got a great (~90%) chance of survival and a full recovery, but it's still scary as hell for a ~12 year old kid, let alone his family. And they're not out of the woods yet.
Well, someone in the family called the NU athletic department and both Tom Osborne and Bo Pelini made personal phone calls to talk with the family and the boy. Pelini even had an official NU jersey made up with the kid's last name and favorite number and they sent it out to him, free of charge.
This family is not full of big donors, just regular people. There was no reason for Osborne and Pelini to do what they did other than to be good people. It's gonna make it awfully tough to muster up the hatred like I used to have for them. I'll still want them to lose every game, but maybe only by 1 instead of 50.:thumbsup:
His older brother's kid was recently diagnosed with some form of cancer. Apparently he's got a great (~90%) chance of survival and a full recovery, but it's still scary as hell for a ~12 year old kid, let alone his family. And they're not out of the woods yet.
Well, someone in the family called the NU athletic department and both Tom Osborne and Bo Pelini made personal phone calls to talk with the family and the boy. Pelini even had an official NU jersey made up with the kid's last name and favorite number and they sent it out to him, free of charge.
This family is not full of big donors, just regular people. There was no reason for Osborne and Pelini to do what they did other than to be good people. It's gonna make it awfully tough to muster up the hatred like I used to have for them. I'll still want them to lose every game, but maybe only by 1 instead of 50.:thumbsup: