Friday, October 28, 2011

Amazing if True Game Friday Husker/B1G Trivia: Michigan State’s Keith Nichol’s incredible, game-winning, deflected, last-second Hail Mary catch last week reminds us of this: Sports teaches many important real-life lessons, such as: Success is about hard work, talent and commitment, of course, but sometimes it’s about being in the right place at the right time. Exhibit A in NU history is Matt Davison, a fine football player, to be sure. In fact, he’s No. 6 in career receptions at NU – and, please, no snarky observations such as that’s a little like being the sixth smartest Texas governor in history. But it is not his overall career but rather one grand moment – Nov. 8, 1997, against Missouri, helping to ensure an eventual national title – in which the freshman Davison was in the right place at the right time and came through. Just ask the Husker fans who made the trip to Faurot Field to see it; there were 850,000 of us there. Of course, Davison never will to pay for a drink in a Nebraska bar as long as he lives. Finally, we would be remiss not to say: Hey, Pelini, be sure to keep an eye on that SOB Nichol tomorrow, OK? GBR!

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