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.