Alternate "original" Floyd on display in HOF this Saturday

[GoAUpher]

Not sure how many folks caught this, but an alternate Floyd signed by almost all of the 1935 Gopher's team will be on display in the Hall of Fame at TCF this Saturday. A cool bit of forgotten history that I certainly never knew about!

http://www.mndaily.com/2010/11/24/fan-finds-forgotten-u-football-history

What most people don’t know is that the players also had their own idea of how to appease the near-riotous crowds in Iowa.

A few players found a local butcher shop with a wooden sign shaped as a pig, and put it up in their locker room for teammates to sign. They brought it with them on the train to Iowa and were planning to give it to the Hawkeyes if they lost.

Patrin estimates that 70 percent of the team signed the pig, including All-Americans Ed Widseth and Bud Wilkinson as well as quarterback Babe LeVoir. Equipment manager Oscar Munson, who is famous for finding Michigan’s jug after they left it behind in 1903, which began the tradition of playing for the Little Brown Jug, is also featured on the pig.

But maybe the most noticable absence is Bierman’s signature.

"He never went into a game thinking he could lose," Patrin said.

Because the Gophers won in 1935, they brought the wooden pig back to Minneapolis, where it wouldn’t surface for decades.

 

[DarrenTheGreek]

What's most telling in that article is how Holtz threw out tons of Gophers memorabilia. Thanks Lou...ya bastard.

 

[GoAUpher]

What's most telling in that article is how Holtz threw out tons of Gophers memorabilia. Thanks Lou...ya bastard.

Yea, its pretty clear that he is a complete doucenozzle.