After Manning's famous snap count went viral, ESPN did a video feature with local high school basketball players, Omaha Steaks workers and Mayor Jean Stothert imitating the "Omaha, Omaha" call. A major television network profiled Omaha but mistakenly showed Nebraska's State Capitol Building in Lincoln, 50 miles away. A national sportscaster wrongly called Omaha the home of the Little League World Series.
Beals, born and raised here, acknowledged there is an inferiority complex among some residents who believe Omaha is generally considered a sleepy cow town, but not as much as there used to be. He also said some Omahans, true to their stoic Midwestern nature,Fjallraven Kanken Sale, love living here and don't care what other people think, if anything, about their hometown. |
