Whatever vision you might have regarding Tom Osborne’s last act, curtain call or swan song, perish the thought right now. The Saturday Night Live performance on March 9, 2013, inside Omaha’s CenturyLink Center will not indulge anyone buying a ticket with your traditional “Thank You Tom” Tribute.
No sir and no ma’am. “This is not going to be a retirement dinner. This is going to be one big celebration with two hours of fast-moving entertainment,” said Paul Meyers, Nebraska’s associate athletic director for the Huskers Athletic Fund.
It will be a celebration and a stage show of amusement and amazement rolled into one … a real hootenanny for a legendary coach and athletic director who retired Jan. 1, 2013, and remains on the scene as Nebraska’s Athletic Director Emeritus.
“This is about Coach Osborne,” Meyers said. “He’s a legend, and we’re celebrating his legendary impact on Nebraskans over the last 50 years. We decided early on that we should do this in a way that’s never been done before. So we’re going to celebrate the accomplishments of a legendary man with some more legendary coaches, legendary players and legendary performers.”
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