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The Gipper

Frere Jacques?

The Gipper

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Here is this weeks Trivia. These are short, cryptic clues, much like you would see for a Crossword Puzzle about a #1 overall draft pick in history. Just name the player the clue refers to. Of varying degree of difficulty. Here you go:

1. Laura Nyro wrote a song about his arrival

Eli Manning.....(Eli's Coming)

2. Pride of the Bluegrass State

Tim Couch from Kentucky U

3. He knows

Bo Jackson

4. Mr. Montreal Alouette

Tom Cousineau

5. Iron Charlie

Chuck Bednarik

6. Not too small

Ed "Too Tall" Jones

7. Mexican, Native American, Irish, German ancestry

Jim Plunkett

8. Known for saying: "Skoal, Brother"

Earl Campbell

9. Never played, chose business

Jay Berwanger

10. Could sing M-M-My G-G-Generation and S-S-Sudio naturally

Bobby Garrett....the stutterer

11. Oliver's Kid

Andrew Luck

12. Mink Coats and Sunglasses

Joe Namath

13. The Most Tragic Choice

Ernie Davis

14. The only TE taken

Billy Cannon

15. The only Bruin selected

Troy Aikman

16. The Latest

Miles Garrett

17. He likes his Bruno Maglis

OJ Simpson

18. Mr. Crab Legs

Jameis Winston

19. Shares a name with a state.

Russell Maryland

20. King of the Hill

King Hill

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9. Never played, chose business - Jay Berwanger

John Jacob "Jay" Berwanger (March 19, 1914 – June 26, 2002) was an American college football player and referee. He was the first winner of the Downtown Athletic Club Trophy in 1935 (the following year the award was renamed the Heisman Trophy); the trophy is awarded annually to the nation's most outstanding college football player. Berwanger was a star halfback for the Chicago Maroons football team of the University of Chicago, where he was known as the "one man football team". In 1936, Berwanger became the first player drafted into the National Football League (NFL) in its inaugural 1936 NFL Draft, though he did not play professionally.

I guess they didn't guarantee him $50,000,000.