Steven M. Sipple: Prep hall inductee Davis likes shifting attitude in Riley program

If you were a kid following Nebraska football during the early 1970s, chances are one of your favorite players was Tony Davis.

He played the game like it was meant to be played — at full-tilt. He was brash, passionate, intelligent. He had a bit of a mean streak. And, yes, he had talent.

I was 9 years old in 1975, Davis' senior season at NU. He was one of my favorite athletes. So, it still seems surreal sometimes when Davis calls from his Colorado home to ask about the Nebraska football program — for which he cares deeply.

He cares deeply about the sport in general and the positive impact it can have on kids. Which is just one reason it's fitting that Sunday he was inducted into the Nebraska…