TERRY FORSBERG
If his voice sounds familiar, there’s good reason — 1962 UNO graduate Terry Forsberg spent a half-century as a public address announcer for UNO Athletics, stepping to the mic for more than 1,000 games beginning with his first call his freshman year at Omaha University. That mostly meant football and men’s basketball games, but also wrestling, baseball and a handful of women’s basketball games. And never for a dime of pay. Forsberg’s run began with the final football game of 1958, a 41-0 loss to Northern Illinois that capped a winless season. Forsberg then called basketball games that winter and was behind the mic for 50 years afterward. This while building an impressive career with stints as a news anchor at KMTV, as manager of the Civic Auditorium and as director of business affairs for Sound Trak, negotiating contracts, tours and dates for Mannheim Steamroller. But it was his time behind UNO’s PA mic for which he was most known — and heard.