Think the Blackshirt tradition has lost weight with the modern player? Be careful to run too far with that. Certainly don’t run past Charles Jackson with such a suggestion.
The Husker junior defensive back voluntarily brought up those black practice jerseys after a practice last week. He’s seen them on others but never worn one himself.
He’d really like to change that.
“That’s a big deal for me,” Jackson said. “When I came here, that’s all I knew was Blackshirts, Blackshirts. My dad was like, ‘Ah, Blackshirts. Nebraska. You heard of the Blackshirts?’”
Yeah, he’d respond. He’d heard of the Blackshirts. Then Dad would ask, “What are you going to do to make them better?”
It’s something Jackson thinks about now as he pushes to do something he is yet to do in his college career: earn a starting role on that Husker defense.
