Suh Causes One More Fumble at Nebraska

Husker fans, I have been sitting on this one for almost two years, and the reason is embarrassing.

In October 2024, Ndamukong Suh went into the University of Nebraska Athletics Hall of Fame — one of six inductees that night, across six different sports. I had a credential, a list of questions, and a chair across from the best defensive player this program has ever produced.

Then he walked in and sat down, and I forgot how to talk.

Here is the thing nobody warns you about. He is massive. You know that already, you have watched the tape — but knowing it and sitting across from it are not the same experience. And he was kind. Genuinely, disarmingly kind, which somehow made it worse. I had the questions. I had practiced them. I stuttered through them anyway.

So there it is. Suh caused one more fumble at Nebraska. Mine.

What saved it is that he was good at this and I was not.

I asked about soccer, because his sister plays and he played too, and I wanted to know which of them was better. He did not hesitate for a second. She is. No qualifier, no former-All-American footnote. Just — she is.

I asked about Texas. About what he did to Colt McCoy, about the fact that people were still arguing over that performance fifteen years later. Does it get old?

He loved it. Still does.

And then he talked about the thing he actually came to talk about, which had nothing to do with football. Financial literacy for kids. He is putting money behind getting it taught, and it is plainly the subject he most wants to be asked about. That is where he leaned forward.

I have the video. My half of it is not good, and I have never posted it. I am not going to.

But the conversation happened, and two years of sitting on it has not made it any less worth telling. He is in the College Football Hall of Fame now as well, selected in January as Nebraska’s 21st inductee. Everybody wrote that one up.

Nobody wrote up the part where a kid from Omaha who stood in the intersection at 72nd and Dodge in 1994 finally got himself a credential, sat down across from Ndamukong Suh, and could not get the words out.

Husker fans, if you ever get your shot at something like this — take it. Fumble it if you have to. It still counts.