RIP #18

[jickey moseph]

too young to have experienced this tragedy, but would love for you old-timers to share your experience

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

too young to have experienced this tragedy, but would love for you old-timers to share your experience

Back then message boards, twitter, etc. weren't the way news broke. So it was mostly AM radio/TV news how people heard about it.

Reports of Brook's plane crashing hit the airwaves, and it quickly became apparent that no survivors were going to be possible.

I think the immediate response was mostly disbelief. Brook was universally admired & respected - even after being beat out by Tommie, he was classy, gutty, and everything you'd want. Came off the bench to win games, then back to the bench after Tommie came back, never making a big stink about it. Had a chance at being the first NU QB to get drafted or have a decent shot in the NFL in a long time.

Side note, ESPN misspelling his name during a story like this is about par for the course on how they operate(d).

 

[LoudHogRider]

too young to have experienced this tragedy, but would love for you old-timers to share your experience

I remember being in the D.J. Digouts sports bar (old Miracle Hills location) in Omaha for an after-hours work even when the news broke. The IMMEDIATE RUMOR - based on their friendship beyond player/coach - was that there was a second person in the plane with Brook and that it was Corch Osborne. If you've ever seen the old E.F. Hutton commercials, it was like that. You could have heard a pin drop in that place. Everyone was just stunned.

Brook was truly the all-American kid. Every guy wanted to be like him and you hoped your sister married him. Just a dadgummed shame that he never got to positively impact the world with the remaining years that should have been his to enjoy. RIP.

 

[jaihawk]

I remember being in the D.J. Digouts sports bar (old Miracle Hills location) in Omaha for an after-hours work even when the news broke. The IMMEDIATE RUMOR - based on their friendship beyond player/coach - was that there was a second person in the plane with Brook and that it was Corch Osborne. If you've ever seen the old E.F. Hutton commercials, it was like that. You could have heard a pin drop in that place. Everyone was just stunned.

Brook was truly the all-American kid. Every guy wanted to be like him and you hoped your sister married him. Just a dadgummed shame that he never got to positively impact the world with the remaining years that should have been his to enjoy. RIP.

Kid was the real life version of Clark Kent... If he had any acting chops, would have probably been perfect for the role...

 

[huskerj12]

I was a little kid but I remember going to the spring game that year and how it felt like a funeral, I think they had a video tribute and stuff.

This is a weird thing but does anyone remember that an Omaha radio station made a version of this Celine Dion song (which was a huge hit at that time) that had like soundbytes weaved in from callers and highlights from his career, and it was like a Brook Berringer tribute version of the song? Seems corny now but all this time later that still stands out as a childhood memory, hearing that a bunch of times that spring and getting really spooked about death for probably the first time in my life hah. Really sad time for the entire state.

 

[HuskerDocCo]

I was a little kid but I remember going to the spring game that year and how it felt like a funeral, I think they had a video tribute and stuff.

This is a weird thing but does anyone remember that an Omaha radio station made a version of this Celine Dion song that had like soundbytes weaved in from callers and highlights from his career, and it was like a Brook Berringer tribute version of the song? Seems corny now but all this time later that still stands out as a childhood memory, hearing that a bunch of times that spring and getting really spooked about death for probably the first time in my life hah. Really sad time for the entire state.

sonny, i remember bein on the cotton pickin windrower and that song came on. Had to grab a coors lite to be Abel to finish out the day