LINCOLN — Gov. Jim Pillen is looking to add a single exception in state law to put his old football coach in the Nebraska Hall of Fame early.

State Sen. Dan Lonowski of Hastings introduced Legislative Bill 1159 Tuesday on behalf of the governor. It would create a carveout allowing one living person to be included in the Nebraska Hall of Fame who meets several criteria that describes only former Huskers coach Tom Osborne.

The criteria include:

The person must be a prior member of the U.S. House of Representatives;

Be a former head coach of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln football team;

Have served as athletics director of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; and

Have attended Hastings High School

Under state law, members of the Nebraska Hall of Fame must have been dead for at least 35 years.

That means if LB 1159 passes, Osborne, 88, would make history as the first and only living member of the Hall of Fame.

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