Todays Word

Originally Posted by cakes44

You know who a true nobody in the game is: me.

A math teacher/football coach in Omaha who is a weekend warrior at best in this game. But man, from an outsider like me…Vic, it’s clearly not all you, but it’s time for a break from the message boards my man.

How old are you Cakes?

Was Ak-Sar-Ben part of your life?

What a place. It was like Oaklawn is now. The races on the weekend would be packed with great lovers of the sport.

Must have been 30 buses from Kansas City and another 15 from Des Moines every Saturday.

John Lively, Jack Van Berg, Bobby Lester, Don Von Hemel, Benny Glass, Hoss Inman, Herb Reicken, Who Doctor Who, Dazzling Falls, Chuck Turco, Chuck Taliafero, Orphan Kist, Leaping Plum, Butch Moss, Amadevil, Tommy Greer, Pat Steinberg, Terry Wallace what a time and place it was.

The politicians in Nebraska were incredible, gothic morons allowing Iowa to get casinos while blocking them in their state. Council Bluffs got one 7 miles from downtown Omaha and a few years later AK was gone.

I called the last race ever run there.

Nothing special in the call because at the time nobody realized the end had come.

OMG and the steak houses!

Anthony's, The Drover (whiskey steak), Gorat's!!

RIP Nebraska spelled backwards!