Brook Berringer
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Brook Warren Berringer (July 9, 1973 - April 18, 1996) was a quarterback for the University of Nebraska football team in the mid-1990s. Berringer came to Nebraska from Goodland, Kansas and played a back-up role to Tommie Frazier. He is best known for replacing an injured Tommie Frazier during the 1994 season and leading the Cornhuskers to seven consecutive wins and to the Orange Bowl national championship game against the University of Miami Hurricanes.
Berringer was expected to be drafted in the 1996 NFL Draft, but he died in a plane crash two days before the draft. Berringer, an amateur pilot, was in control of a 1946 Piper Cub over Raymond, Nebraska, when the aircraft went down in an alfalfa field. Friend Tobey Lake, the brother of Berringer's girlfriend at the time, was also killed in the crash. [1] 48,659 people attended the Berringer's funeral at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska. [2]
[edit] Miscellaneous
- The country band Sawyer Brown wrote "The Nebraska Song" in honor of Berringer. (The song was actually written before his death.)
- Chicago Bears quarterback Kyle Orton is a Husker fan and wears #18 in honor of Brook Berringer. The #18 jersey was assinged to incoming freshman Jeff Perino for the 1996-1997 season, but after Berringer's accident, coaches allowed Perino to switch to jersey number 5. [3]
- "One Final Pass: The Brook Berringer Story" was written after Berringer's death by Art Lindsay, Berringer's religious mentor.
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