Johnny Rodgers: Devaney Changed Program, Mindset
In the 1970s, Johnny The Jet Was Dust in the Wind
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Take this from a guy who’s won a Heisman Trophy and made the most electrifying play in the Game of the Century – the sheer beauty of athletics, at any level, is, was, and always will be the shared chemistry and camaraderie of teamwork.
Johnny "The Jet" Rodgers, enshrined last month into the Nebraska Athletics Hall of Fame, describes his decorated career as “THE ultimate athletic experience” for one simple, yet compelling reason – his accomplishments are based far greater on Nebraska’s back-to-back national championships in 1970 and ’71 than the individual accolades that resulted from climbing college football’s highest mountain.