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Butkus Award
Considered the greatest linebacker in the history of football, Butkus was a two-time All-America selection in
1963 and 1964. He earned the Silver Football Award in 1963 as the Big Ten's Most Valuable Player after leading the Illini to the
Big Ten championship. Butkus moved on to a Hall of Fame career with the Chicago Bears, where he was a six-time All-Pro selection.
Butkus finished third in the 1964 Heisman Trophy voting and had his number, 50, retired at Illinois in 1986 and his professional jersey,
No. 51, retired in Chicago in 1994.
Butkus was selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1979, the College Football Hall of Fame in
1983 and the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame in 1995.
Traditions with Friends: Sunday Brunch
I wanted to take this opportunity to share a fun tradition that I have begun with several of my friends
this semester. Champaign and Urbana have lots of great restaurants, including breakfast restaurants, so my friends and I set out to
have a weekly Sunday brunch and experience all of our campus's great breakfast spots.
We have probably had 6 or 8 brunches so far, never in the same place twice. We usually plan our location Friday or Saturday night to
make sure our whole invite list is in the know (usually 8 or 10 of us, all engineers.) So far, we have gone with the usual breakfast
places like Perkin's Diner and the Pancake House but also branched out to hipper restaurants like Cafe Luna and Flat Top Grill.
This past weekend, we switched it up and had an omelet "potluck." We met up at one of our apartments and each brought an ingredient
for omelets. We spent an hour or two customizing omelets, eating toast, and hanging out. It was a great chance to get together, keep
up our brunch tradition, and eat some great, low-budget omelets.
Although our Sunday brunch tradition only began this semester, I truly hope we are able to carry it onto the future, even after
graduation. I look forward to our get-togethers every week and have definitely come to love several campus restaurants that I
previously didn't even know existed!
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