Qof7
A.K.A: nate
Age: 20
Hometown: Syracuse, Nebraska
Occupation: Sophomore in the UNL construction management program
Chose UNL for opportunity of Student football tickets
Also make mud for masons when I have to
E-mail: [email protected]
Passions and Talents: Reading HC. drawing and painting Nebraska players (Tommie Frazier subject of many), working with wood, following recruiting, following politics, playing baseball (reduced to softball after high school), and golfing
Origin of Husker Fascination:
When I was about 5, I remember on Saturdays I would go ride in the combine with my dad, and we would listen to the Cornhuskers, and Kent would get so excited and my dad would get so excited, and I just loved it when my dad was happy. We got to spend time together, and when Nebraska won (which they always did when we were in the field, since Oklahoma games were on TV) he would just be super nice all day and it was just something about listening to the game and Kent, and picking corn that I will never forget with my dad, that I will never forget the rest of my life.
Every year I anticipated the football season more and more, and the droughts between the season finale and the bowl game seemed endless when I was a kid. Now I can't wait for spring ball, and I am still like a goofy little dork when I see players on campus.
Favorite Players:
This list could be long because there were and are some great ones, but my list is 3: 1) Tommie Frazier
2) Abdul Muhammed
3) Eric Crouch
The moment I knew Tommie was special, I was in seventh grade, and we were playing Mizzou down there, and Frazier got his first start, and Mizzou was hanging with us. It was around halloween, and my mom was taking me and my sisters to the pumpkin patch, but I refused to get out of the car until the game was over, and thank God we won. Well, when I heard Kent go nuts about Frazier drving in for a late touchdown, I just knew we had something special. The next day I saw the picture in the World Herald of Tommie leaping over a defender into the endzone, and I cut it out, and later drew it with penicl and have it hanging on my wall in my bedroom right now. I think that play epitomizes what Frazier was all about....heart.
Abdul Muhammed was great because he would go over the middle and catch anything. When he lacerated his liver against FSU in 93, that just reinforced to me how tough he was. He had the bullet in his butt, and he lacerated his liver, and he came back in 95 to make all those drive-sustaining catches against Miami and Collinsworth was going on about what a competitor he was. Then factor in that when I used to go to Nebraska basketball games, some of the players wouldn't sign, or were jerks (like Frazier, but I forgive him). Abdul was always super nice and talked to me and my friend like a role model would.
Eric Crouch is just unbelievable. I just knew that last year, in watching him in spring ball at the Cook Pavillion. He led the team so well, and I was upset when I found out Newcombe got the starting spot. Crouch is a leader ala Frazier, and he showed it against K-State last year, what he is capable of. In fact, when I heard Crouch lost the starting job, I took on my handle of Qof7, meaning Quest of 7(Eric Crouch), because I knew in my heart he would battle and win the starting job somehow, and I was right. Currently I am painting a water color of Eric, that I hope to take to the State Fair.
In closing, I would like to say that Nebraska football is what I put first alot of times in life even though that sounds unreasonable. But when something brings you so much joy, you have to appreciate it and give thanks for it. I feel so lucky to be born in Nebraska where I was just given this gift of the Nebraska tradition of winning. We will always be on top.