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NU football alumni tailgate looks to bring together old friends, improve alumni experience

Former Husker football players Mike "Red" Beran and Pat Fischer are steeped in Nebraska tradition.

Both played for NU in the early 1970s. Beran graduated in ‘72, a year before Fischer, who came from a long line of Husker players and coaches — six of his uncles played for NU, and his father, Cletus, was Nebraska's offensive line coach from 1960-85.

However, once they hung up their helmets and stepped away from the program — for Fischer, that came in 1980 after he spent time working as a graduate assistant for Tom Osborne — their status as alumni didn’t seem to carry much weight.