Omaha ALL OVER national media lately

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:00 pm

Eli Manning uses 'Omaha' as an audible to change the play.

Post by **Omaha Cowboy** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:38 pm

Romo and the Cowboys offense uses 'Omaha' for audible calls as well..

FYI..

..Ciao..LiO....Peace

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 1:08 pm

Watching TV yesterday I saw a feed the children commercial and they had a semi truck driving with the Capital building in the background. THe company was based out of Oklahoma though but it was cool to see Lincoln.

Post by **Brad** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:19 pm

Last Sunday Fox News featured Ben Nelson. He was live from Omaha... Sitting in front of my Photo!

S33 · Post by **S33** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:59 pm

Brad wrote:Last Sunday Fox News featured Ben Nelson. He was live from Omaha... Sitting in front of my Photo!

I saw that! Couldn't see much of it because of his giant head though.

Post by **Brad** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 2:06 pm

Here is a Rivals Blog:

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/baseball/b ... abb,198788

almighty_tuna · Post by **almighty_tuna** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 2:53 pm

Brad wrote:Here is a Rivals Blog:

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/baseball/b ... abb,198788

That's it. I'm now marking every picture I post with my website. Enjoy the traffic. Where's the puppy?

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:20 pm

Interesting. They went to the trouble of stealing it, renaming and posting it on their own servers...

...but didn't bother to crop out your URL?

Thieves are getting lazy.

Post by **Brad** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:29 pm

Big E wrote:Interesting. They went to the trouble of stealing it, renaming and posting it on their own servers...

...but didn't bother to crop out your URL?

Thieves are getting lazy.

Actually, they asked permission which usually means they are going to crop out your URL. Trust my I am not complaining, I will take the spike on the website traffic bar graph today!

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:34 pm

This is pretty huge and awesome, and doesn't seem to be getting much attention over in General Discussion.

http://eomahaforums.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=9505

Stargazer · Post by **Stargazer** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:02 pm

ABC Nightline segment this evening talking about holiday airline travel tips... focused on 'getting to Omaha' as their example.

Kayak rep asked ABC correspondent ... "Why Omaha?"... "because it's a great place", he replied (smirking a little).

TitosBuritoBarn · Post by **TitosBuritoBarn** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:11 am

Stargazer wrote:ABC Nightline segment this evening talking about holiday airline travel tips... focused on 'getting to Omaha' as their example.

Kayak rep asked ABC correspondent ... "Why Omaha?"... "because it's a great place", he replied (smirking a little).

So do we put this one in the 'negative publicity' column?

Bosco55David · Post by **Bosco55David** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 10:30 am

Saw this on the Yahoo homepage today.

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DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 2:18 pm

CNN had a video of "Omaha" on over lunch today. They showed what appeared to be a rural dirt road with a truck driving through heavy snow blowing around. They said Omaha about a million times but kept showing a rural road that could have been anywhere but Omaha.

Post by **Brad** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 2:22 pm

DTO Luv wrote:CNN had a video of "Omaha" on over lunch today. They showed what appeared to be a rural dirt road with a truck driving through heavy snow blowing around. They said Omaha about a million times but kept showing a rural road that could have been anywhere but Omaha.

We also made the national news for the girl that was run over by the snow plow.

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:21 pm

I hadn't heard that. I have heard us on a lot of the cable stations for weather though.

joeglow · Post by **joeglow** » Sat Dec 12, 2009 10:02 pm

Omaha has the 7th worst tap water in the nations:

http://green.yahoo.com/blog/the_conscio ... water.html

Stargazer · Post by **Stargazer** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 12:09 am

#1 in the midwest no less !

2Adam29 · Post by **2Adam29** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 12:18 am

Dunno if this has been posted yet, but at least its more upbeat than the tap-water thing...

In the new NBC show Sing Off, one of the eight groups, "Solo" is from Omaha. The word Omaha has also briefly shown in advertisements for the show.

http://www.nbc.com/sing-off/video/clips ... o/1183993/

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 1:13 am

The way the guy on the right in the "Solo" interview talks about Omaha doesn't really come off right and sounds kind of dumb.

And YIKES about the tap water!

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 4:50 pm

Omaha is featured in the current issue of Where to Retire magazine. I came across it because an issue was forwarded to us, as my associate, Ben Proctor, was prominently interviewed in the piece, which focused on the Riverfront as well as Downtown

Here are two scans, since I couldn't find it online.

Post by **Brad** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 10:57 am

Todd Bugs of Rod and Kulture wrote a review of Omaha's "Filter Kings"

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:57 pm

Brad wrote:Last Sunday Fox News featured Ben Nelson. He was live from Omaha... Sitting in front of my Photo!

Brad, the top 1/3 of this photo would make an A-MAZING pano. Do you have a higher-def photo you could crop and post???

Post by **Brad** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 2:08 pm

Sure, I will see what I can do.

Stargazer · Post by **Stargazer** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:26 pm

Last Sunday Fox News featured Ben Nelson. He was live from Omaha... Sitting in front of my Photo!

That is really cool Brad... although subjected to those conditions... I'm surprised it didn't burst into flames.

TitosBuritoBarn · Post by **TitosBuritoBarn** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 9:04 pm

I was watching the Daily Show (I think?) a while ago and Hugh Grant was on promoting his new movie Did You Hear About the Morgans? They showed a clip where the Morgans were talking to their host family or whatever (they're in the witness protection program) in Wyoming and the host family is telling them about their kids. The following dialog takes place:

"And our daughter married [some guy] and they moved to the big city"
"he took her to Omaha"
"....the big city?"
"Omaha"

imdb.com currently has this movie rated at 2.5 stars out of 10, which is almost unheard of, so I can imagine that virtually no one will see it.

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 12:11 pm

I saw that on the DS a couple of times but was always to busy to post it.

JPenny · Post by **JPenny** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 3:28 am

they have a video on yahoo about a dad who makes cool lunches for his son who goes to dundee elementary.

Post by **Brad** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 6:45 pm

There is an "Omaha Steaks" spot on the wheel right now of Wheel of Fortune...

S33 · Post by **S33** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:07 pm

I'm guessing everyone missed ABC's World News Tonight last night when they were in downtown Omaha? No biggy, just talking about our lovely weather and broke roads dept. budget.

thenewguy · Post by **thenewguy** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:09 pm

Brad wrote:There is an "Omaha Steaks" spot on the wheel right now of Wheel of Fortune...

haha i saw that too and thought of posting it, for s&g.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:10 pm

I was going to mention that but forgot - I really couldn't tell were she was standing though.

Post by **Brad** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:15 pm

She may be near a hotel at 10th and Douglas, but I have no idea?

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=9497307

justnick · Post by **justnick** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 8:15 pm

Brad wrote:She may be near a hotel at 10th and Douglas, but I have no idea?

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=9497307

Across the street from Pinnacle Bank and Hilton Garden in. Marriot is that?

Stargazer · Post by **Stargazer** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 6:34 am

New penguin chicks at the zoo made ABC national news... good to hear animal stories from somewhere other than Germany for once!

almighty_tuna · Post by **almighty_tuna** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:14 pm

The Onion wrote:Rural Nebraskan Not Sure He Could Handle Frantic Pace Of Omaha

Lifelong North Platte resident Fred Linder, 46, revealed Monday that he doesn't think he could cope with the fast-paced hustle and bustle of Omaha, the Cornhusker State's largest city.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/ru ... e_he_could

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:38 pm

Haha. That's an old one.

Definitely rooted in out-of-date stereotypes, but funny nonetheless.

Bob from Omaha · Post by **Bob from Omaha** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 4:31 pm

I'd love to invite him to visit me in Detroit. The truth is that I find Detroiters to be generally very friendly, similar to my experience living in Omaha. In town interstate speed limits are 70mph, so you do have to get used to speeding up to merge. It can be noisy, but not from the cows, whom I find can be noisy.

The funny thing is that there have been many outstate Nebraskans who have gone on to run multinational corporations in such cities as New York, L.A., Tokyo, etc.

On the other hand, everything's up to date in Kansas City. (My nephew was in a production of Oklahoma last week)

I'd sell tickets to see the guy in the story hang out at the Max for a while.

Bob from Omaha · Post by **Bob from Omaha** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 5:17 pm

I checked with my HR dept. Of our 38 Omaha employees at least 22 came from towns smaller than Omaha & Lincoln. It's a regular Corrputatorium!

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:18 pm

You know what The Onion is, right?