Junior quarterback MarQueis Gray was honored on Sunday at the Golden Gopher Football Banquet, held in TCF Bank Stadium, as the recipient of this year’s Bronko Nagurski Award. Given annually by the
A “PSA 9 (mint) graded” Bronko Nagurski National Chicle card has sold in a private transaction for $350,000, breaking the record again for the most valuable football card in existence.
Bronko was recently included in the NFL’s Top 100 Greatest Players, ranking #19 on the list of all time greats. For the complete list, visit http://top100.nfl.com/ .
Named by the Associated Press as one of the 101 top athletes of the 20th century, some have described Nagurski as the best football player to ever play the game. Playing offense, he was unstoppable. Playing defense, he was impassable. Players and coaches respected him, fans revered and worshiped him. After more than a century of football, he remains one of the sport’s truly immortal legends.