Spring game pics, Key and C. Childs...
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Damn dude has aged, like I have. lol
If you have ever watched Childs play that was one dude always looking for trouble in the game. He was never very far from a 15 yard personal foul.
If you have ever watched Childs play that was one dude always looking for trouble in the game. He was never very far from a 15 yard personal foul.
I went to LP's funeral service and Childs spoke. He is a very good speaker and his talk was very moving.
I don't want to hijack this thread, but I'm not sure I recall us talking much about LP's funeral....what was it like?
He was a tough SOB. If I remember right he was a state Class A champion wrestler.
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he was. may have been a multi year champ. The whole team (albeit a small team) was stacked with talent. They had like 3-4 champs each year during their run it seemed.
I wouldn't say it to his face but, that beard makes him look like he's in his 60's. Shave that and he probably looks like the 40 something that he is.
It was really just a funeral like most of them are. I went because it was a 20-minute drive from home and I wanted the family to know many people cared even if we didn’t know LP. There were a lot of former players who looked familiar, but since they have aged I couldn’t put names to some of the faces (like Childs). After the pastor did the service people spoke. Kids LP knew in foster care, family and former players spoke. They were all happy stories more or less. Tom Osborne talked about how great an athlete he was and the relationship TO had with LP after his incarceration. It was a very nice TO-type talk – factual and compassionate. A couple speakers like a former high school coach, one of LP’s attorneys and I think one of Nebraska’s former coaches (can’t remember who, but he wrote and received letters from LP all the time, Darlington?) flat out said it could not have been suicide. There was definitely a pall over the funeral that something wasn't right about his death. If you Google it there are some stories like USA Today and LA Times that cover the funeral. I detected all of us there harbored some resentment toward the TV people who had cameras outside. That seemed kind of wrong for some reason. There was a lunch in the church dining area afterward, but a couple California Husker fans I was with didn’t go because we felt that was more of a friend/family thing. I left with the feeling I am sure many others had that it was so sad because so much human potential ended up the way it did. I had a close friend who was a great guy, but bipolar and sometimes the “green genie” as he called it took over and he became a person I didn’t know, and didn’t want to know. He committed suicide and left me thinking that those of us whose brains are correctly wired should be thankful everyday because bipolar problems and the like can make life hell on earth.