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The word with Brendan Franke: The ‘pretty unique story’ of how the Gretna grad became NU’s kickoff specialist | Football



Road to the Huskers

“I’ve got a pretty unique story. It’s taken some twists and turns. I go from quitting football and working part-time at a little bar called Buck’s in Venice, Nebraska, to kicking at Nebraska. I still work there now.

“My grandpa (Russ LaBar from Waterloo) was the one I really like to (have seen me on the team). He was so proud he about cried. And then getting them out to the games. They just love it. They’re kind of vicariously living through me. I think I’m the first one in my family to go D1 for sports.

“I went from 3,000 people at Morningside games to about 90,000. People ask me what the Tunnel Walk is like. Honestly, I black out a little bit from excitement. Playing for Nebraska is once-in-a-lifetime, and you don’t know how amazing it is until you’re a part of it.

“(I got good at kicking) through soccer. I got a video on my phone of me punting a ball all the way to the other side of the field and my buddy just tapping it in (for a goal in a match). I could kick a soccer ball almost the length of the field. My buddies that played football said I should try kicking a football.

“When we played at Oklahoma the fans were almost within grabbing distance. I’d be warming up on the bike and the fans would say, ‘You think you’re going in (No.) 92?’”



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