Brook Berringer

[Brasky]

What a beast. Too bad he didn't get his shot in the NFL. May he rest in peace.

 

[Driaz]

I take it you're watching the 95 Orange Bowl.....I have all the days programming on dvr, but am watching live BTN at the moment, they just started the 98 Orange Bowl......

I can't wait for football season!!!!!

 

[corn train]

I remember when the news came on about Brook, was a tragedy

 

[fumblerooskie1970]

The part that brought a tear to my eye, was when they were playing the "Decade of Dominance" Brook said that 15 to 20 years from now (meaning 1995) he would still be telling everyone about what it's like to play at Nebraska.

 

[iruletheskool]

Sad sad story. Brook will never be forgotten.

 

[Red_Alert]

Mark Silverman (BTN President) announced at Big 10 Media Days that they were doing a documentary on Brook Berringer to be aired this fall.

 

[Red_Alert]

The Brook Berringer documentary will air for the first time this Saturday the 18th at 9:30 pm (CT).

Immediately following the Nebraska @ Northwestern game on BTN.

 

[FNG]

The Brook Berringer documentary will air for the first time this Saturday the 18th at 9:30 pm (CT).

Immediately following the Nebraska @ Northwestern game on BTN.

So set your DVR for 3 hours over the game to make sure you will get to see the documentary on Brooke. Tissues will be needed!!!

 

[iruletheskool]

I am going to cry.



No homo

 

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[NE1tm2nv]

I think DB say's it best at the end of the promo video

For the chapter to be written in ink and you close the book, it seems unfair. He had earned better.

 

[White Rat]

By Mitch Sherman | ESPN.com


I went to college with Brook Berringer. I did not know him well.

Berringer was 17 months older than me. The few times I interviewed him for the school newspaper, I thought he seemed much older than that, probably because he somehow stayed above the fray -- especially late in his career as a quarterback that happened to coincide with the most controversial and successful period in Nebraska football history.

Because of my own youth and lack of awareness, I failed at the time to recognize the impact of Berringer on people in Nebraska.

I saw him as just another guy with a good story. That is, until April 20, 1996, two days after Berringer died when the small plane he piloted crashed in a field north of Lincoln.

At Nebraska’s spring game, instead of celebrating consecutive national championships or another batch of Cornhuskers drafted into the NFL -- Berringer likely would have been among them -- the school and state mourned its fallen hero by playing a video tribute on the big screens.

Sports are often emotional. But not like that. That was not about sports. The stadium went completely silent. It remains the only time I’ve shed tears while sitting in a press box. I was far from alone.

The Big Ten Network documentary, “Unbeaten,” a 54-minute production on the life and death of Berringer, set to premier after the Nebraska-Northwestern game on Saturday, will similarly stir emotions for those who remember Berringer, and it will educate a generation of fans too young to have watched him play.

This fall marks the 20-year anniversary of his greatest football achievement, leading Nebraska to eight wins in place of injured star Tommie Frazier.

The documentary, directed by Matthew Engel and Kevin Shaw with Bill Friedman, BTN coordinating producer for original programming, hits all the right notes on Berringer.

It features no narration, only sound from a diverse lineup of former Berringer teammates and testimony from others, including Nebraska assistant Ron Brown, who recruited Berringer to Lincoln, and Kyle Orton, who has worn No. 18 since high school as a tribute to the QB.

An archived Berringer interview away from the field is particularly haunting. Forgotten audio from Keith Jackson lends important historical perspective.

“We wanted Brook to have a voice,” Engel said.

For Nebraska fans, the first half of the film largely serves as review of the 1994 and ’95 seasons, with impressive insight into the complicated dynamic of the Frazier-Berringer relationship. The final 25 minutes includes powerful reporting on the plane crash and its aftermath, poignant footage and a final sequence certain to move viewers like that April Saturday 18 years ago in Lincoln.

“He’s a guy who represents all that’s good about a college football player,” Friedman said. “He was a symbol of how Nebraskans want their football to be portrayed.”

Berringer’s impact is lasting, memorialized with a statue of the quarterback in uniform with his coach, Tom Osborne, that stands outside the entrance Nebraska’s athletic offices on the north side of Memorial Stadium.

Shaw said he visited Lincoln prior to documenting Berringer and saw the statue without knowing its significance. In learning about Berringer and remembering the statue, Shaw said, it was a “wow moment.”

“It was like, that’s that guy,” he said.

With “Unbeaten,” BTN succeeded in creating a film that will touch Nebraskans and teach others across the Big Ten about a quarterback who’s worth remembering for another 20 years and beyond.

 

[oaknightshockey1]

Just watched this. It was an amazing film. I still remember being there at the spring game for the memorial. I was 5 at the time.

 

[Brasky]

What do we have to do to get UT to put Brook in our banner? Gotta be something..

 

[iruletheskool]

We'll request a new one next year when RG4 and Heismandullah are gone

 

[huskers1217]

22 years