How old were you when you realized

[huskers1217]

Mean Gene Okerlund was a Husker?

WWE stars pay tribute to Mean Gene Okerlund

 

[HuskerPower52]

Great guy sad news

 

[HuskerinBig10]

Hmmm, he had a great career, but how the heck do you choose that as your career?

He wasn't a Cornhusker. He lived in Omaha. He worked at KOIL in Omaha. That was THE station to listen too, at least according to my sister. My family knew the family that owned that station, but I have not thought about that in 50 years.

 

[huskers1217]

Hmmm, he had a great career, but how the heck do you choose that as your career?

He wasn't a Cornhusker. He lived in Omaha. He worked at KOIL in Omaha. That was THE station to listen too, at least according to my sister. My family knew the family that owned that station, but I have not thought about that in 50 years.

Eugene Arthur Okerlund was born Dec. 19, 1942, in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, and grew up on the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He studied broadcast journalism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and became a DJ in Omaha for a time.

 

[popeyecv64]

everytime I am in the Omaha area I listen ta 1110 am great station KFAB
Love Chris Baker

I have survived 57 revolutions around the sun and do remember that dude from year 1969

RIP!!--- good sir

 

[it'sHuskers4me]

The mighty 1290 KOIL, never knew mean Gene worked there.

 

[tometom]

how's that saying go: today year's old?

i've never been a WWE fan. i tried a few times when my friends were heavily into like 10-18 yo, but just never got enjoyment out of watching grown men putting on shows like that.

 

[HuskerInSecLand]

The show was watching the old women in the front row down at the civic auditorium. They were crazy.