Shane Johnston

Shane Johnston

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Shane Johnston grew up in many different places in an Air Force family. However, since he attended high school, got his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Nebraska - Omaha, started his career, met his wife and bought his first house in Omaha he considers it his hometown. Plus, no matter where they lived, his dad brought him up right - cheering for the Big Red and hanging on to every play on Autumn Saturdays. He had the joy of being there in person to see Barry Sanders run wild but Okie State lose big, to see the flea-kicker in Missouri, and to witness - 10 rows up along the sideline - Black 41 Flash Reverse Pass and Heisman Trophy winner Eric Crouch sink the Sooners among other highlights. He was also there for the low-lights such as the Debacle in the Desert - the 19-0 loss to Arizona State and Bill Callahan's first of many losses, this one to Southern Miss, that would define the next four years of his ill-fated regime. Since moving to North Carolina in 2005 Shane spends a lot of money on pay-per-view games and looks forward to Nebraska's move to the Big Ten since he gets the Big Ten Network on cable.

Short List

  • Favorite Athletes

    Tommie Frazier, Ndamukong Suh

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    Nebraska Cornhuskers, Carolina Hurricanes, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Chiefs

  • Favorite Coaches

    Tom Osborne, Bo Pelini, Roy Williams, John Cook

  • All-Time Sports Moment

    Cory Schlesinger rolling into the end zone for the second time to beat Miami in the 1995 Orange Bowl

  • Most Memorable Game Attended

    Flea-kicker - Nebraska at Missouri in 1997

  • Ruth or Mays?

    Willie Mays all the way. Too many obstacles in his way to forget about all he accomplished.

  • Unitas or Montana?

    Montana - if only for that hilarious skit on Saturday Night Live with Phil Hartman

  • Jordan or Russell?

    Jordan, reluctantly

  • Gretzky or Orr?

    Meh

  • Pele or Maradona?

    Who? Just kidding.

  • Federer or Sampras?

    Sampras because he was a gritty, hard-working player.

  • Tiger or Nicklaus?

    Seriously? I'm not that old but I'm going with the Golden Bear on rep alone.

  • Petty or Earnhardt?

    I live in NASCAR country and am too afraid to make this choice.

  • Schumacher or Senna?

    Don't care.

  • ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 or SEC?

    Big 12. Wait. Big 10.

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