[spankalib]

As an aside, in an un-, or at least, under-reported scandal, the inaugural Big 10 Championship game did NOT use a Nile Kinnick headed coin for the toss, unlike every other Big 10 game for decades. Instead it had the Big10 logo on one side and both participating schools’ logos on the other.

It is to weep at such a loss of understanding. Thank you FRiend.

[JohnBovenmyer]

The statue of Nile at Kinnick stadium, unveiled in 2006, is beautiful and displays him not as player but as a student. There are wonderful quotes around the base. I took good pictures at its inaugural game and was going to post the quotes here, but they appear to be amongst my losses in a subsequent hard drive crash. Dang! I hadn't realized I'd lost them. I'll have to retake them next time I'm there.

The actual unveiling, the day before, included a flyover by an F4F Wildcat, the kind of plane in which he died. It may have been a later model. I wasn't able to attend and I wish I could have seen that. Wiki claims only one of Nile's model is still airworthy, although 16 newer ones still are. They only had modern jets flyover for the game.