Call a 30-second timeout, before changing the criteria for selection to the Nebraska Hall of Fame

Tom Osborne for the Nebraska Hall of Fame? Sign me up.

But maybe it's worth spending a bit of time considering the rules for induction into the state's most prestigious honor.

They aren't very good.

First off, a person must have been dead for 35 years before they can be considered.

That always made me wonder, will people remember how big a deal night-show host Johnny Carson, of Norfolk, was? He was the undisputed "King of Late Night" who regularly reminded us that he was from Nebraska.

Heck, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (where he graduated, and donated millions) still uses his voice to p...