“The one constant through the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game; it’s part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that was good and could be again. Oh...people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.”
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The booming, lovable bass of James Earl Jones delivered these lines in the iconic Field of Dreams, but substitute “Husker football” for “baseball” and he could sure as hell be talking about Nebraska.