Short American Stories By Kenny Miller

This is the story about how ancient China selected its royals. Or did they?

Everyone remembers Johnny Roger's great punt return in the 1971 National Championship game but do you know who sprung him? This is the story of one of those unsung heroes in both football and life...Bill Janssen.

He was a Nebraska kid who only wanted to play at Nebraska. He had average speed and found himself in the Nebraska secondary but average speed and a big heart was enough to give Troy Aikman a memory. Meet Nebraska walk-on Mark Blazek. Make that Major Mark Blazek...a true Nebraska hero.

Colorado coach Bill McCartney said he wouldn't play at Nebraska and the Colorado papers called him a turncoat, but even with a knee injury, this talented prospect would become a Nebraska star.

He had a great football name and tons of desire but there were some other challenges this legendary Nebraska linebacker had to face as he rose from a walk-on to become one of Nebraska Football's best.

The Devaney years were off to a great start but then things came to a grinding halt. But Nebraska still had one of the best defenses ever. Here's the story of the great Husker with the crooked leg.

A talented player decides on Nebraska instead of Michigan State and two years later, he is wearing a National Championship ring. Not bad for a Scottsbluff kid.

He was only 18 when he left Africa and became a surfing instructor for Club Med. He was waiting for a wave when he saw it and he was hooked for life.

Bill Jennings was leaving Lincoln and Bob Devaney was on the way in. He inherited some great talent to get the Big Red machine going and one of his greatest gifts was a good looking tailback from Broken Bow by the name of Kent McCloughan. Here is his story.

One of the mos interesting interviews I ever did was with Judge Bernard McGinn before he retired from the bench. He was a Nebraska Football star guard who played on both sides of the ball in the early Bob Devaney days. One he finished football and got his degree, it was off to a job in a South Dakota tire re-capping plant? What? This a story your teenage kids need to hear!

Charles Lindbergh was a bored engineering student at the University of Wisconsin when he saw an ad that lighted his inner flame and it wasn't long before this American legend was off to Lincoln, NE to learn how to fly/

Tom Banderas was a stud on the Nebraska Football squads thatg came right after the "scoring explosion." But, they never quite got there. Something called "Sooner Magic" raised its ugly head and ruined some very promising seasons. That didn't stop Tom from becomming a winner in life and providing Nebraska Football with another great Banderas star.

He was the star tailback on Nebraska's 1941 Rose Bowl team and his life was about the gift football had given him.

Ride along with The Litter King of Lincoln as he cleans up a big box parking lot after shopper cover it with fast food wrappers and other "disgusting stuff."

He arrived in Lincoln with a bad sunburn after riding in the back of a pickup sitting on a bean bag and it wasn't long before Marc made his mark.

About the time most boys are starting to take to the ball fields and the basketball courts, this mom got her son interested in an after school dance program that would create opportunity and pure magic.

A businessman looking for a cup of coffee steps out of his car and into his past as he stops for a little break in his stressful day and walks away with memories.

Follow along in a day with a teenage snake.

Harry Tolly planned to be a coach when he enrolled at the University of Nebraska. Little did he know, he would lead his team to one of the biggest football upsets in school history and pave the way for Nebraska to become a football powerhouse.

Every day, hundreds of flights move to the front of the line when the pilot tells controllers one word...Lifeguard. This is the story of one of those flights as told through the pilot's eyes as the plane rushes a little girl from America's heartland to California and a last hope for a life-saving transplant. The story is from Kenny Miller's Kindle book, Short American Stories, and is read by the author.