Quick Trivia Hit of the Week

The Milkshake is taking the rest of the week off from blogging to head west for a little while. I'm contractually not allowed to say for what in a public forum until after I come back, but in the meantime, I present the following quick trivia hit of the week:

I found this on a football forum today:

Although he never makes the "best" lists, everyone who played against Bronko Nagurski considered him the best RB of his era (and still do when comparing him to modern backs).

Bronko who? So I go on wikipedia and find this gem of an article:

According to legend, Nagurski was discovered and signed by University of Minnesota Head Coach Clarence "Fats" Spears who had gotten lost and asked for directions to the nearest town. Nagurski (who had been plowing a field without a horse) lifted his plow and used it to point in the direction of town. He was signed on the spot for a full ride football scholarship ...

A time-honored and perhaps apocryphal story about Nagurski is a scoring gallop that he made against the Washington Redskins, knocking two linebackers in opposite directions, stomping a defensive halfback and crushing a safety, then bouncing off the goalposts and Wrigley Field's brick wall. On returning to the huddle for the extra point try, he reportedly said, "That last guy hit me awfully hard."

Hooray for Polish-Ukrainian football (real football, not other football) players!