HuskerfaninOkieland
Heisman Trophy Winner
I always enjoyed listening to Keith Jackson call football games "Whooa Nelly!"
OWH.com
Keith Jackson, one of the most recognizable voices in college football, lives near Los Angeles with his wife, Turi Ann, who recently had surgery to insert a stent.
“She’s frisky as a young colt now. Just turned 80.”
Jackson, 82, has had his own health problems since he stepped away from the broadcast booth in 2006: skin cancer, a cartilage tear in his rib cage, kidney stones. He hasn’t yet given up golf at Los Angeles Country Club, though.
“I shot my age back in March.”
Jackson will be in Omaha on Friday night for the TeamMates Gala. (Call 1-877-531-TEAM or visit teammates.org for more information.)
He doesn’t make many trips like this one. But Tom and Nancy Osborne invited him — Jackson has a lot of respect for the Osbornes. And because TeamMates mentoring is a good cause, he said.
“It’s also a chance to sit and chew the fat with Warren Buffett (the second guest speaker).”
Jackson will land Friday afternoon, go directly to Embassy Suites in LaVista and start signing footballs. He’ll sit with Buffett, field questions, then fly home Saturday morning — before the Nebraska-Missouri showdown in Lincoln. Why not stick around?
“I haven’t got the energy I used to have.”
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Q: What are your favorite memories of covering Nebraska games?
KJ: “The one thing that jumps in my mind, Florida State went up there one time and beat ‘em in Lincoln. A lot of the people in Memorial Stadium when that game was over and the Seminoles were running off the field, they stood up and gave ‘em a hand. ... They’re good, honest folks in Nebraska. They react the proper way. When you lose a hard ballgame to a very good team, ‘Have a good trip home.’
“Billy Joe Hobert and a bunch of Huskies went in there (in 1991) and won a great ballgame, beat Tom, and again I saw the Nebraska home folks stand up, high-five the Huskies and away they went. I respected that. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I’m an old country boy, but I respect that from a crowd, who will say to the winner, ‘Well done.’”
Q: What’s your opinion of Nebraska joining the Big Ten?
KJ: “Win, win. There’s a long, long history of this. Even back when the Big Ten was the Western Conference, there was talk among the Big Ten people of trying to get Nebraska to come and join the conference. I don’t know how much effort was made over the years, but I remember so many instances sitting down with so many different people of substance in the Big Ten, who had clout.
“The one school that always came up was Nebraska. I know there were a lot of stories out on the media about Missouri. But I don’t know that I ever heard anybody speak so meaningful about inviting Missouri as they did about Nebraska. Now, finally it’s happened.”
OWH.com
Keith Jackson, one of the most recognizable voices in college football, lives near Los Angeles with his wife, Turi Ann, who recently had surgery to insert a stent.
“She’s frisky as a young colt now. Just turned 80.”
Jackson, 82, has had his own health problems since he stepped away from the broadcast booth in 2006: skin cancer, a cartilage tear in his rib cage, kidney stones. He hasn’t yet given up golf at Los Angeles Country Club, though.
“I shot my age back in March.”
Jackson will be in Omaha on Friday night for the TeamMates Gala. (Call 1-877-531-TEAM or visit teammates.org for more information.)
He doesn’t make many trips like this one. But Tom and Nancy Osborne invited him — Jackson has a lot of respect for the Osbornes. And because TeamMates mentoring is a good cause, he said.
“It’s also a chance to sit and chew the fat with Warren Buffett (the second guest speaker).”
Jackson will land Friday afternoon, go directly to Embassy Suites in LaVista and start signing footballs. He’ll sit with Buffett, field questions, then fly home Saturday morning — before the Nebraska-Missouri showdown in Lincoln. Why not stick around?
“I haven’t got the energy I used to have.”
....
Q: What are your favorite memories of covering Nebraska games?
KJ: “The one thing that jumps in my mind, Florida State went up there one time and beat ‘em in Lincoln. A lot of the people in Memorial Stadium when that game was over and the Seminoles were running off the field, they stood up and gave ‘em a hand. ... They’re good, honest folks in Nebraska. They react the proper way. When you lose a hard ballgame to a very good team, ‘Have a good trip home.’
“Billy Joe Hobert and a bunch of Huskies went in there (in 1991) and won a great ballgame, beat Tom, and again I saw the Nebraska home folks stand up, high-five the Huskies and away they went. I respected that. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I’m an old country boy, but I respect that from a crowd, who will say to the winner, ‘Well done.’”
Q: What’s your opinion of Nebraska joining the Big Ten?
KJ: “Win, win. There’s a long, long history of this. Even back when the Big Ten was the Western Conference, there was talk among the Big Ten people of trying to get Nebraska to come and join the conference. I don’t know how much effort was made over the years, but I remember so many instances sitting down with so many different people of substance in the Big Ten, who had clout.
“The one school that always came up was Nebraska. I know there were a lot of stories out on the media about Missouri. But I don’t know that I ever heard anybody speak so meaningful about inviting Missouri as they did about Nebraska. Now, finally it’s happened.”
