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Omaha has a ton of unique sit-down restaurants and plenty of cuisine offerings that aren't burgers, chicken or pizza. We have sushi, cajun food, Indian food, bistros, Vietnamese restaurants, Ethiopian food... you just need to get out and explore. Most of these places also have Google listings.

And we have some true diamonds in the food truck scene, as well. I can probably give you 10 places to try off the top of my head that fit descriptions of things you're looking for.

It's gotta be at least 10-12 years or so I would think?

I just saw some mentions of him popping up on Twitter so I assume he must've said something on air this morning. With how busy he is, I'm kind of surprised it took him this long, what with coaching HS football, his kids being teens, all the community stuff he gets up to, etc. Being up and at a radio program before the sun cracked every day for the last decade was probably exhausting at times.

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I was never a huge fan of DB as a radio personality. I enjoy him as a person, but he produced a lot of long-winded monologues and was really repetitive. I could always tell that Gary or whomever his co-host was would struggle to keep DB on topic and on schedule. I also didn't particularly like how coy he could be at times about stuff he claimed to know was happening in the program but he didn't want to share details. Listeners don't like to regularly be told 'I know something you don't know' and then not find out what that thing is; at least, I never liked that.

@Red Fivethats actually the perfect description haha. 
 

I will say that It is regarded as one of the best in the country and there truly is a lot of stuff to do. They have their own train ride, haunted houses, tons of attractions and shows, rentable camp sites/fire pits, etc. It also holds a lot of sentimental value to me because I started going in the early 90s as a kid, but it also used to cost only a couple bucks to get in. Now they just keep expanding every year and finding new reasons to slap another $5 onto admission.

@Red Five Technically $40. $35 is the discount. Have you ever been to Vala’s?

The truth of the matter is that journalists and media organizations know what people like and listen to, and now more than ever, they're basing their content strategies off of clicks, pageviews and subscription purchases. Their strategy may have lost you Loebarth while gaining them 10 new subs.

That's also why people like Stephen A. Smith are some of the highest paid sports personalities in the business. He drives clicks and views and makes them money. It's a vicious circle my dudes.

@JJ Husker yeah that seems outlandish but the first thought that popped into my head was same as yours that they must have a larger than usual property with a lot of trees or something. I have a 1/2 acre and lawn service is $40/week right now.

Lawn/tree care can be quite lucrative if you find the people willing to pay. good news about our pine tree is it’s in the front yard. I’ve heard backyard trees are where they really get ya because of the challenge of getting and using the equipment back there. 

Super late to this party, probably too late, but figured I'd throw in my two cents.

We had a huge limb fall of a tree last year and get stuck about 25-30 feet in the air. We used a company my neighbors had previously used. It cost $550 for them to come remove the limb and then they also trimmed the entire tree up to a height of 15 feet. Another quote we had had for the same thing was north of $1500 IIRC. So tree trimming (like a lot of services) can be all over the place.

Tree removal is usually a lot more expensive. We're probably going to need to have that done soon as our front yard's pine tree is dead (killed by invasive species). I'm expecting that to be at least a couple thousand.

I'll often put it on even though I don't have to, and then will realize I don't need to have it on. Happens at the store a lot.

Quite frankly, I kind of enjoy the mask because my wife & I run into a lot of people we don't really want to talk to. The mask helps be more incognito lol.

@Danny Bateman I had a somewhat similar experience. My earliest memories of asparagus were out of a can. I didn't "hate" it, but I definitely didn't like it. I remember my dad made oven baked asparagus one time when I was about 10 and I thought "where the hell as this been?"

I still can’t enjoy Au gratin potatoes. I thought maybe if I got older and didn’t have them out of a Betty Crocker box… but freshly made… I would enjoy them.

Nope. 

@teachercdwhat grades do you teach a again?

Either way please fail them without remorse. Kendrick is still very much in his prime and with the exception of 50 Cent you probably had 4/5 of the greatest rappers of all time on that stage. 

@funhusker with KL being from Compton and a legit top 5 all time rapper, I think he would’ve been a glaring omission in that city and with that lineup. The 50 cent thing was objectively the weirdest. Dude wasn’t even part of the promos.

@BigRedBuster I 100% agree. The same people who hated it this year will probably love next year’s, and vice versa. It’s not a big deal at all and I don’t think the NFL got it more right than wrong compared to any other year. It’s good that they rotate genres/generations. 

I loved the half time show and I felt like it appealed to a wide range of people even if that kind of music isn't someone's "thing," but there was a lot of reaction from people I saw that disappointed me... things I'll probably post about in P&R at some point.

As for the show itself, I feel like people suffer from memory loss when it comes to analyzing these things. The NFL has done a pretty good job of balancing generations and genres IMO. In the last few years we've had The Weeknd, Maroon 5, Bruno Mars... all performers that I think appeal to a younger crowd. Then you've got Bruce Springsteen and The Who whom played approximately a decade ago. And then a bunch of other artists that I think split the difference. Prince was probably the best half time show I've ever seen, and although I respect Prince a ton, he's not exactly an artist I'll throw on Spotify ever.

People just need to chill out. The NFL is a money making business so, although I'm sure they want to appeal to a wide range of audiences, they also want to provide artists that'll draw massive attention and interest. Mission accomplished yesterday.

I might take a look at Sling, but I'm mostly hoping that YTTV and Disney come to an agreement relatively soon. I primarily had a subscription for Husker football and Formula 1. NFL is like a 'in the background' mood on Sundays. With the Huskers as they've been, it's really only been F1, and that season is over now for a few months. I'll probably only cancel if this continues for weeks.

I 100% advocate eliminating the backwards slide rule. In lieu of that not happening though then yes I think you just spot the ball wherever the qb initiated the slide since that’s where it gets spotted currently. 

Well that's why I said don't make it a penalty. Just make it like a dead ball play or something... like the runner's knee hitting the ground. Ref sees a QB go to slide, QB changes mind, ref blows whistle and the ball gets placed where the QB started the slide.

 Since sliding and becoming a defenseless player is not going to go away it doesn't make any sense to enable people to exploit it.

@Redux Ehhh... he's not the first to do it, but he definitely got the most coverage for it.

I'm not advocating for it to be a penalty but it should blow the play dead if a QB does that... like a knee hitting the ground. If we're going to say that defenders can't tackle a QB that's sliding, then we certainly can't allow said QB to exploit the rule.

IMO that's a problem with football in general... too many penalties and too many opportunities for results to change based on those penalties.

I still watch the hell out of the sport but I think it's a valid concern with the sport.

@JJ Husker I think that's a bit irrelevant to his point as he wasn't explicitly outlining any benefit or detriment for Nebraska.

Obviously, the fewer the obstacles to the B1G championship the better if you're in the West, but from an objective perspective regarding the balance of the league, one division is structurally and fundamentally better equipped to succeed.

Having the weaker division doesn't mean much for success either. Same thing happened in the Big 12. Whomever in the north patty caked their way through that division would just lose to whatever elite team made it through the southern gauntlet. I don't really see that changing to often with the likes of tOSU, MU and PSU all in one division, regardless of how bad or good Nebraska is.

Which was a measurable (and now evidence-based) concern back before the division realignment.

The B1G put the clear majority of talent and resource rich football programs on one side of the conference and put more have-nots in the West. Although Nebraska has been pretty bad for the last 6-7 years, they (on paper) should be the best program in the west division... and yet if they were in the east they (on paper) should be the fourth best team in the mix with MSU.

That's a huge problem that I don't ever see changing unless the divisions are realigned.

He could resign but that might cost him his buyout payment depending on the contract language, which would be silly on his part.

A mutual 'parting of the ways' could be an option, where the university agrees to pay a portion of his buyout if they both agree to go their separate ways. Presumably, the university could save a little cash, Frost could save a little face, and everybody wins.

 

Regardless of Frost's story as a head coach here, whether it's a good ending or a bad ending, I hope enough people are able to differentiate what he did as a player from what he did as a coach. Those are two very different things, and even if he ultimately fails as a head coach, so long as he did enough things with dignity and carried himself with professionalism... then it is what it is and I won't fault the guy. There's no denying he worked his a$$ off as head coach here.

I'm not particularly fond of country music or Garth Brooks. I respect the heck out of the industry and the successful musicians, but the music just doesn't do much for me.

That said, the Garth Brooks concert I went to in Omaha in 2015(?) was hands down one of the best shows I've ever been to. Just from a pure performance and crowd engagement standpoint, he's the man. You can always appreciate when a performer commands a stage and an audience and he's one of those people.

@JJ Husker @ZRod To be honest (and this isn't intended to be a dig at either of you) I only made that joke because of how famous and famously horrible that movie is lol. They even made a movie about it starring James Franco.

We all know the perfect movie...