Jeff Sims relays hilarious story on Nebraska weather, personal discovery of ice scraper

Winter weather isn’t for everyone. Just ask new Nebraska quarterback Jeff Sims, a native Floridian who has spent the last three years playing in Atlanta.

It didn’t take long for Sims to get his first real winter shock up in Lincoln, Neb.

“So I came, I got here in January,” Jeff Sims explained. “I was coming straight home from Florida and it was about 80 degrees, so when I first got here it was like 20-something degrees and it was kind of a shock. It was kind of a shock. And my dad, he stayed up here with me for the first week.”

Little did Sims know he was about to get some fatherly lessons in handling the cold.

One morning he woke up early to go to a team workout, but it had been snowing the night before. As Sims got out to his car, he realized he had a problem.

“That was our first time with snow since we got to Nebraska. It was crazy,” Jeff Sims said. “One morning I was going to a workout and it was like 6 o’clock in the morning. My windshield was covered in snow, and at the time we had got this little thing that scrapes the snow off the windshield. I didn’t know what it was but it was in my back seat, so I’m trying to wipe the snow off the windshield and it’s not moving.”

Worrying that he might miss or be late for a workout with his new team, Sims turned to his dad for help.

“So my dad, he was already up at the time, he got up,” Jeff Sims explained. “I was like, ‘Dad, the snow not coming off the windshield.’ He’s like, ‘Jeff, that’s what this thing in the back seat for.’ He was just getting to scraping. I was like, ‘Man, this is an adjustment for me.'”

Sims didn’t let the media at Big Ten Media Days know whether he made it to that workout on time. But one thing that is clear is that teammates are counting on him to lead Nebraska in Year 1 under coach Matt Rhule.

He certainly has a unique skill set, a true dual-threat prospect.

In his three-year career so far, Jeff Sims is 364-of-633 passing for 4,464 yards, with 30 touchdowns and 23 interceptions. He has also run for 1,1166 yards and 11 touchdowns.

He just hasn’t experienced a ton of cold.

So all the nuggets and bits of information Sims can pick up on that front, from dad or otherwise, are certainly welcome. He just hasn’t been through it before.

“Never. And he told me, he said next time you’ve got to leave your windshield wipers up so the snow don’t cover them,” Jeff Sims said. “It’s crazy in that moment that he knew that, because he never had to deal with snow. He’s a Floridian.”