You would think that getting destroyed 51-17 would be a bad thing, but it is actually good.
In the summer of 1976, a little boy by the name of Blake Matthew Bortles was born in a small rural town in Nebraska. WIth barely a penny to spare, because his family was peach farmers in Nebraska, Bortles began playing semi professional football in Lincoln at the tender age of 8.
Asked about his experience playing for the Lincoln Logs, Bortles said, "It was a great chance to build something. We would stack a few things together each week almost like we were building a house.