Saturday night’s fifth annual Team Jack Foundation Gala at Lincoln’s downtown Embassy Suites picked up a new and important passenger to help Nebraska Football impact pediatric brain cancer research and enhance national awareness for the disease.
Bill Moos, a rancher who now serves as Nebraska’s director of athletics, honored three die-hard Huskers Saturday night. Rex Burkhead, now a running back for the New England Patriots, was the first.
Jack Hoffman, Rex’s little buddy, was the second, well known for setting Nebraska’s Spring Game rushing touchdown record that drew substantial national and international media coverage.