After listening to a fiery, passionate Garrett Nelson speak for a mere 10 minutes about playing Nebraska football, you realize only one answer would suffice to the one question the young outside linebacker asked.
"Would you believe me," Nelson said, his piercing eyes narrowing in toward yours, "if I told you I fell asleep to old Blackshirts films?"
Yes.
Yes.
A thousand times, yes.
Nelson, a Scottsbluff native, said he began that practice early in his high school years. Whom did he watch? He rattled off the last names of Foreman, Peter, Kelsay, Brown and Wistrom, all the while, his voice ascending.