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Husker plates in high demand
Brashear: Championships
call for spirit design
By Ted Taylor
Senior Reporter
We’ve got spirit, yes we
do. We’ve got spirit, how
‘bout you?
No, Sen. Kermit Brashear
of Omaha is not a cheerleader.
He’s just posing that question
to his colleagues in the Nebraska Legislature
as he tries to get a bill passed that would create 1
special Nebraska Comhusker license plates.
Brashear initially brought up LB620 early
last year, after the Comhusker football team
won its first national championship in 23 years,
but it was killed in the Legislature’s Transpor
tation Committee.
He is hoping a second straight football
national championship, teamed with men’s f
gymnastics and volleyball titles, will have (
senators yelling uo big Kea.
“I think it’s appropriate when we have
reached the national championship level in several sports to
allow people to show their support for not only the sports
programs, but the university,” he said.
The bill may hit the floor as soon as next week, an aide
to Brashear said Wednesday.
The $70 spirit plates would be in the school colors, scar
let and cream, and feature the word “Comhuskers” or “Husk
ers” in the design.
Currently, 21 other states offer spirit plates, including
Alabama, Florida. andTexas—all of which generated more
than $ 1 million in revenue.
Brashear’s bill would send $40 of the $70 fee to the
university’s spirit plate proceeds fund.
The first $3 million of the fund would be used for finan
cial support of former University of Nebraska athletes who
pursue graduate school studies.
The next $2 million would be appropriated to NU to
establish an endowment fund. Any money over the first $5
million would be used to upkeep athletic facilities at NU.
“The sports program is a very unifying factor in this state,”
Brashear said. “All the things that tend to divide us pass
away with our unified enthusiasm for the accomplishments
of these men and women.”
This is an enthusiasm he said the Legislature had no room
to withhold.
“People arc asking us to provide a celebratory opportu
nity,” he said. “What business does government have deny
ing that opportunity?”
NU fans want vehicles to
be part of ‘REDPEAT’
By Jenny House■
Staff Reporter
" ^ At last came the morning after.
Early Jan. 3, motorists started re
questing novelty plates in honor
of the Huskers’ drive past Florida
for the the national championship
the previous night.
Alvin Abramson, director of the Nebraska De
partment of Motor Vehicles, said the DMV so far
had processed 30 to 50 requests for the personal
ized plates.
That’s slightly fewer than last year, he said,
but requests from other counties have not all ar
rived.
Abramson said it would be three or four
weeks before fens received their plates.
j Among those waiting are Husker fans
■Zj Bryon and Julie Bratt from Lincoln, who last
year got tne piatcs V4 inis year
the Bratts — not surprisingly — opted for “95 HSKRS.”
“The reason I did these plates was to dedicate the Husker
season, not for the game,” Bryon Bratt said. “Everyone
else seems to be doing it just for the game.”
He said the ’94 and ’95 Huskers dominated all year, so
he wanted to dedicate the plates to the whole team.
The day after the game, Bratt took the day off and ar
rived at the DMV at 9 ajn. to get his first choice. He wasn’t
the first, though — one early riser had arrived at 6:15 a.m.
Lincoln resident Deborah Oliveros said her husband,
John, decided a week before the Fiesta Bowl to get per
sonalized piatcs if the Huskers won. She arrived at the
DMV at 9:30 a.m. to request the license plate“BCK2BCK.”
But not everyone got their first choice.
Despite her early efforts, University of Nebraska-Lin
coln graduate Gayle Kloewer from York had to settle for
her second choice for the second year. Last year, Kloewer
requested “NU24 Ml7,” but the plate was taken, so she
and her family switched to “24NU 17M.”
This year, Kloewer again wanted the score, and again,
it was already taken. A T-shirt gave her another idea:
“REDPEAT.”
“The plates will go on our red Voyager minivan that
goes to games religiously,” Kloewer said.
Ken Bunnell, a devout fan from Fremont, said he, too,
had to settle for his second choice - “95NU94.”
His plates last year read “13 AND 0,” and he enjoys
the smiles and waves he gets on the road from others whc
read his plates.
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