{"id":142973,"date":"2025-08-13T17:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142973\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T17:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:48:10","slug":"nebraska-punter-archie-wilson-reduced-to-tears-during-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142973\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska punter Archie Wilson reduced to tears during press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nebraska freshman Archie Wilson broke down in tears during a press conference Tuesday when a reporter asked the Australian punter about what it\u2019s like being away from his family for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat part is hard, I mean \u2026 I\u2019m sorry,\u201d Wilson, 19, said before pausing to collect himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I love them a lot,\u201d he continued through tears. \u201cI have two little brothers and a mom and a dad and that\u2019s the tough part about being here. I love them a lot and I miss them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBut they know this is what\u2019s best for me and it\u2019s good I can still talk to them plenty over the phone. They\u2019re coming here to see the first few games, so I am looking forward to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nebraska football freshman Archie Wilson broke down in tears during a press conference Tuesday, where a reporter asked the Australian punter about what it\u2019s like being away from his family for the first time. YouTube\/HuskerOnline<\/p>\n

Nebraska football freshman Archie Wilson broke down in tears during a press conference Tuesday, where a reporter asked the Australian punter about what it\u2019s like being away from his family for the first time. YouTube\/HuskerOnline<\/p>\n

Wilson joined Nebraska this summer from his native Frankston South, Victoria, which is nearly 10,000 miles away.<\/p>\n

He is the son of Jessica Bach and Lee Wilson, per the team\u2019s website.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-2 punter played Australian Rules football for Haileybury College as a key defender \u2014 and was a product of Prokick Australia, which has produced eight Ray Guy Award winners and had 29 punters awarded NFL or CFL contracts, according to his Nebraska bio.<\/p>\n

Nebraska special teams coordinator Mike Ekeler spoke highly of Wilson, adding that his teammates love him on and off of the field. <\/p>\n

Punter Archie Wilson joined Nebraska in the summer of 2025 from Australia. YouTube\/HuskerOnline<\/p>\n

\u201cThat guy is special, he truly is,\u201d Ekeler said. \u201cHe\u2019s 18 years old, leaves home for the first time, goes to a different country, and leaves his family which he\u2019s extremely close to \u2026 his teammates love him because of the energy he brings in the building, not just because of what he can do with the football.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nebraska opens the 2025 season against the Cincinnati Bearcats at Arrowhead Stadium, home of the Kansas City Chiefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nebraska freshman Archie Wilson broke down in tears during a press conference Tuesday when a reporter asked the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4740,1428,11995,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-142973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-college-football","10":"tag-nebraska-cornhuskers","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115022718955598540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}