After being told he has no jurisdiction over God, Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha said he found God in Nebraska.
He hasn’t become a born-again Christian. He says he has located God and filed a second lawsuit in the Douglas County District Court — this time against “God (a.k.a ‘Tom Osborne’), Defendant.”
This time, Chambers’ goal is to tackle Cornhusker fans and their glorifying of former Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne, who returned to Nebraska as interim athletic director following the firing of Steve Pederson.
“Compelling circumstantial evidence thus is presented by the facts at hand that Defendant, indeed, has entered, and remains in, the State of Nebraska in the guise of ‘Tom Osborne’ and that Defendant apparently has revealed Defendant’s true identity to at least some of those who have showered, and continue to shower, upon Defendant adulation, adoration, veneration, homage, worshipful outpourings of thank-giving and the like,” Chambers wrote in the lawsuit.
“Football is a religion (to Husker fans) and Osborne is their God,” Chambers said in an interview.
Osborne declined to comment on the matter. Chambers said he doesn’t expect to hear anything from Osborne either.
The two have had a rocky history. …

