Univ. of Nebraska football player: "Don't just watch Fox News."

[jayschool]

Ameer Abdullah, a senior running back for the University of Nebraska's football team, addressed 1,700 people as the keynote speaker Tuesday] at the Big Ten Conference's annual Media Days. He was speaking as the student-athlete representative for more than 1,000 scholarship athletes in the conference.

He recalled the aftermath of 9/11, when he was a Muslim elementary school student in Alabama, and his father's words of warning:

"From this point on, there's going to be a lot of ignorance, a lot of misinformed opinions," Ameer recalled him saying. "They told me to encourage others to make informed decisions. … Before you judge something, really do thorough research for your own knowledge. If you still don't like it, fine, but don't just watch Fox News."

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ameer-abdullah-is-living-his-dream-at-nebraska--happy-with-free-education-014516150-ncaaf.html

[Fred Sanders]

1. Purity requires watching only Fox, Newsmax and that daily caller shit, cult rules require it.

[Scuba]

2. Gotta love the B1G.

[MinM]

3. That quote should play well in Nebraska..

Joking aside though good for Ameer on sticking his neck out there.

Game winning TD in the Big House

[Orsino]

4. Don't just eat poison.

Don't just swim in raw sewage.

[frylock]

5. never put salt in your eyes

[gratuitous]

6. Seems self-evident, doesn't it?

But will hit the ear of many a Cornhusker like an off note at the symphony: "What? Don't just watch Fox? Are there other channels?" The old joke that the "N" on their football helmets stands for Nowledge has been around for a long time, but it's still funny because it's still true.

[jayschool]

7. Uh, yeah.

Thanks.

And Go Big Red.

[gratuitous]

8. Full disclosure

My parents grew up in Geneva NE and left when dear old Dad went off the WWII.

[jayschool]

9. I grew up in Lincoln

and went to Dear Old Nebraska U.

I've tried to fight off the self-loathing for having done so.