<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of NCAAF Sporting News at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">(video)</div><div><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/bw2o3gv">http://tinyurl.com/bw2o3gv</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><h1 class="entry-title" style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: Popular, popular, serif; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-size: 3.333333em; line-height: 1.05; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Watch: Jack Hoffman, 7-year old cancer patient, scores TD in Nebraska spring game</h1></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; "></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); line-height: 1.6; font-size: 1.166666em; font-family: 'Apres RE', 'apres re', sans-serif; ">LINCOLN, Neb.— Jack Hoffman just might go down as the biggest star of the Nebraska spring game.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); line-height: 1.6; font-size: 1.166666em; font-family: 'Apres RE', 'apres re', sans-serif; ">And he's only 7 years old.</p><p></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hoffman, of Atkinson, Neb., has won the hearts of fans and everyone in the football program for his courageous bout with brain cancer. Star running back Rex Burkhead befriended Jack last year and is the captain of the support network known as "Team Jack."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wearing a miniature Burkhead uniform complete with a No. 22 jersey, Jack ran onto the field late in Saturday's scrimmage.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On a fourth-and-1 play, he took a handoff from Taylor Martinez. Jack started running left, but Martinez redirected him. The little guy turned on a dime and followed a wall of blockers down the field.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Players from the Red and White squads left their sidelines and followed him into the end zone to mob him and lift him on their shoulders after his 69-yard touchdown.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The crowd of 60,174 at Memorial Stadium cheered as Jack celebrated — a moment that left his father, Andy, misty-eyed on the sideline.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Asked what he was thinking when he ran onto the field, Jack said, "Scoring a touchdown."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And when he broke free and scored? "It felt awesome." And the crowd reaction? "Really awesome."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Football operations director Jeff Jamrog and fullback C.J. Zimmerer came up with the idea to get Jack involved in the spring game. Jamrog called the Hoffmans on Friday to tell them the Huskers had a special play planned for Jack.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Receivers coach Rich Fisher motioned Jack over on the sideline to show him the play he drew up. Andy said that's when it hit him that his son really would get his day in the sun at Memorial Stadium.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It was a lot of emotions right at once," Andy said. "Very emotional to see that. Husker fans have been so incredible to Jack and our family and especially to this cause."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jack was diagnosed with cancer in April 2011 and has had two surgeries. He's now on a two-week break from a 60-week chemotherapy regimen.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Andy said Jack is "doing great" and that an MRI at Children's Hospital in Boston showed that the tumor has shrunk substantially in the past year.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We're very optimistic for Jack," Andy said.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Burkhead, who is preparing for the NFL draft, said he got as much joy out of Jack's touchdown as he did for any of the ones he scored for the Huskers.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Jack is a fighter, a strong kid," Burkhead said. "To see him run around and enjoy the Husker experience, it's a dream come true, especially for kids in the state of Nebraska. For Jack to get down here and do it, I know it made his day."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; "><img src="cid:EFE4F4FC-D502-4C97-9FCA-4C4EDEA46BE8" alt="8626427934_2a83898ef5_b.jpg" id="EFE4F4FC-D502-4C97-9FCA-4C4EDEA46BE8" width="640" height="360"></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></div></div></body></html>