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New N.U. Coach: Fess Parker? Yee Haw!

I feel good about the University of Nebraska’s new football coach because he looks exactly like my favorite TV star in childhood, Fess Parker. He played Davy Crockett and Dan’l Boone, America’s best-loved straight shooters.

I can just picture Bill Callahan in a coonskin cap with a buckskin jacket on, wielding Old Betsy, his Kentucky longrifle. Though I suppose there’d have to be an “N” on that cap, the buckskin would have to be red, and the longrifle would have to stand for his pass-happy West Coast offense that may make the expression “Air Nebraska” less of a joke.

Nebraska’s athletic director Steve Pederson, under assault for the 41 days of turmoil it took to get this new coach signed, can take some solace from the fact that Walt Disney found Fess Parker in a bit part in the movie “Them,” which was about giant ants.

That HAS to be more ignominous than what happened to Pederson, being turned down for Nebraska’s high-dollar coaching job by an Arkansas yahoo named Houston Nutt.

Were Fess Parker and Bill Callahan separated at birth? Check out the pictures on the website www.celebhost.net/fessparker/crockett.html

There’s a 1954 quote on there from Fess Parker about Davy Crockett that has transfer power for the new Nebraska coach:

The actor said, “God touches the lives of some people, like Davy Crockett, choosing them for great achievements in order to show the rest of us the right way.”

Oooooh! Hope that’s so for our new coach!

Billy . . . Billy Callahan!
King of the wild Huskeers!

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Prayer request: Praise for another strong, tall, soft-spoken man who is going through an exciting change in life. This Omahan, a business owner named Russ, lost a close friend recently in a motorcycle accident near his home. In fact, he came upon the scene and had to comfort the widow. It was shattering. Well, one thing led to another, and now Russ has been transformed from a quiet, uninvolved, pew-sitting Christian into someone who is leading a small-group Bible study, taking leadership positions in his church, and even praying for a former business adversary who has cancer. Once again, the Holy Spirit has used death to teach someone about life and what it’s all about. Thank you, Jesus, for breathing new life into Russ and may he do exploits for You that will touch countless lives. (John 5:24)