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VIDEO: Military family gets ultimate surprise reunion at Nebraska spring game
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There were winners and losers on Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
Then there was Staff sergeant Matthew Hawke.
Hawke returned from a 10-month tour in Afghanistan to give his family the ultimate surprise at the start of Nebraska’s spring game. Hawke’s son, Austin, got to do the pregame coin toss. Little did he or Hawke’s family know who No. 10 in white was.
That is, until he took off his helmet:
After ten months away from home, welcome Home Staff Sergeant Hawke. pic.twitter.com/TzOcrJjysg
— Nebraska Football (@HuskerFBNation) April 15, 2017
Between that and Jack Hoffman’s memorable march to the end zone, Nebraska produced some of the more touching spring game moments you’ll ever see.
Connor O'Gara is the senior national columnist for Saturday Tradition. He's a member of the Football Writers Association of America. After spending his entire life living in B1G country, he moved to the South in 2015.