OT: NE Shrine Classic Saturday - first organized football game in America in months
The annual Shrine All-Star game for recent Nebraska high school graduates will take place Saturday in Kearney.
They've been practicing this week without incident, and protocols are in place. I believe it's being streamed locally, but hopefully there will be publicly available highlights as well.
Good article from Mitch Sherman here:
Reminder, even if you're not a subscriber, you should be able to read a few articles free before hitting the paywall. Game on!
They've been practicing this week without incident
They've practiced this week without incident? What does that even mean? I would like to know who was scheduled to play and if all those players are still playing? I would think that any really good players are already on college campuses, so is this what they assembled from the remaining scraps?
A lot of FCS recruits and Nebraska walk-ons. But there are 90 players involved.
For those unfamiliar with Nebraska geography, it is pronounced "Carnie".
I remember hearing that it was once considered as the US capitol due to being in the deadnuts center of the continental United States.
Being a geography dork --- I've actually been to the geographical center of the continental United States. It's just north of a small town called Lebanon, Kansas. There's a monument, picnic area, chapel, and Sunflower field (it being in Kansas and all) there.
You are right: Kearney (and Salina, KS) is the nearest "city of any real size" to Lebanon. (I'm defining "city of any real size" as a city that sustains commercial air service, and Kearney/Salina do have daily United flights to Denver or Chicago).
The US isn't a rectangle so two different smart people could come to reasonably different conclusions about where the "center" is.
Not to be pedantic - but there is a rigorous and defined mathematical way to define the "center of mass" for ANY object. There really is only one center.
Although, in Michigan --- the town of "Michigan Center" is nowhere near that mathematical center (which is up by Cadillac). :-)
Kearney?
