Deion Sanders One of Several Inductees Into BuffsBlog’s All-Grit Hall of Fame

Deion Sanders’ toughness isn’t human. So we decided to build the All Grit Hall of Fame in his honor. Read below for information on Sanders’ induction as well as the bios of the other inductees into the GHOF.

Deion Sanders

Sanders announced in his press conference on Tuesday that he’s undergoing a 4-hour surgery later Tuesday that’s related to blood clots, and that he is unhuman and plans to be back at practice on Wednesday and on the sideline this weekend against Iowa State.

The surgery, an aspiration thrombectomy, involves the left popliteal and tibial arteries. Gesundheit.

The internet tells me that for average humans, thrombectomy recovery typically involves a few days in the hospital, with full recovery taking weeks to months depending on the clot’s location and severity. For Deion Sanders, however, it apparently will take only about 12 hours.

This isn’t Sanders’ first brush with health-related issues. Sanders dealt with blood clot issues at Jackson State in 2021, with doctors amputating two of the toes on his left foot. He also skipped a media day session in 2023 following a procedure to remove a blood clot from his right leg. And remember, Sanders was away from the team this summer after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of bladder cancer, which involved doctors reconstructing a section of his intestine to function as a bladder.

In honor of the toughness displayed by Deion Sanders, we here at BuffsBlog are officially inducting Deion Sanders into the ALL GRIT HALL OF FAME. Congrats Coach, you can print this article out and put it next to your Thorpe Award, Defensive Player of the Year Award, and Hall of Fame bust.

Welcome to the GHOF, Deion.

Gottfried “Gotz” von Berlinchingen

Gotz (not to be confused with Dan LeBatard’s sometimes TV and radio co-host Stugotz) was a knight of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1504, he was struck by a cannonball during the Siege of Landshut. The impact ripped off his right hand and blew shrapnel from his sword and armor clean through his arm. It’s a miracle he survived. A normal man would’ve retired to a farmhouse on the Danube. Not Gotz (not Stugotz).

He had an armorer fashion an iron limb with articulated fingers controlled by gears inside the prosthetic. With the appendage, he was able to grip anything from a sword to a quill pen. The handicapable warrior went on to cut an unholy swath across the continent for another 40 years, pillaging, murdering, and basically flipping the metal bird to authority. Gotz (not Stugotz) became a Robin Hood-like figure in Germany, and his pioneering prosthetic was a symbol of the nation’s mechanical ingenuity.

Goethe wrote a play about his exploits, and his famous battle cry, “Leck mich im Arsch!” (Lick my ass!), was celebrated by Mozart in not one but two canons.

Welcome to the GHOF, Gotz (not Stugotz).

Yes, that’s really his mechanical arm.

Mark Schlereth

Mark Schlereth played guard in the NFL for 12 seasons with the Washington Redskins and the Denver Broncos. He also starred in 2012’s horrific Red Dawn remake. As a quick aside, dear reader – if you survived watching that movie, you’re one tough SOB.

For our purposes, though, Schlereth is in the GHOF because he endured 29 surgeries during his playing career. 20 of those were performed on his knee (15 on the left, 5 on the right).

Schlereth’s nickname is “Stink” because he didn’t want to leave the field to urinate. Instead, he relieved himself on the sideline in his football gear. What a football guy.

Welcome to the GHOF, Stink.

Schlereth was almost disqualified for being on Days of Our Lives but the green chili saved him.

Adrian Carton de Wiart

Carton de Wiat was a one-man demolition derby in uniform. The Belgian-born British officer dropped out of Oxford to fight in the Second Boer War. Over his military career he was shot 7 times — in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear. When a grenade mangled his hand, a doctor refused to amputate his fingers, so Carton de Wiat ripped them off himself.

He wore an eyepatch better than Nick Fury, too, which almost gets him in the GHOF by itself.

He survived 2 plane crashes, tunneled out of an Italian POW camp at 61 years young, and spent eight days evading capture through enemy territory despite having one eye, one arm, and no Italian vocabulary.

When he finally wrote his memoirs, he summed up World War I with the line, “Frankly, I enjoyed the war.”

Welcome to the GHOF, Adrian.

Chuck Norris

No one ever ducks for Chuck Norris’ roundhouse kick. Not because they can’t, but because their brains just shut down in his presence. Every opponent is like, “Hey, look, it’s Chuck Norris!” and then it’s lights out, courtesy of the boot of destiny.

For single handedly redefining the rules of engagement (no one ducks!), Chuck Norris is a first ballet inductee into the GHOF.

Welcome to the GHOF, Chuck.

Anyone That Survives After Eating at Long John Silver’s

Culinary courage doesn’t get more hardcore than ordering the two-piece and walking out alive. If I hit the lottery, I’m contributing half to the CU football program and I’m going to use the other half to buy, and then shut down, every Long John Silver’s on the planet. Think of it as my lasting contribution to the world.

Seriously, though, if you survive that batter and “fish,” then you’ve earned membership to the GHOF. Show me a receipt from Long John Silver’s, and I’ll salute you.

Welcome to the GHOF, any reader that has survived eating at Long John Silver’s.

Buffalo Calf Road Woman

Buffalo Calf Road Woman was a Cheyenne who fought against the forced removal of her people. She was a member of a woman-only warrior society among the Cheyenne (badass), and single-handedly changed the tide of one battle when she dove back into the fighting to rescue her brother. The Cheyenne were ready to retreat in defeat, but her act inspired them to keep fighting, and they won.

She was also at Greasy Grass, aka Custer’s Last Stand, and according to legend is the one who pulled Custer from his horse so the other warriors (some of them also women) could stab him to death. After the Cheyenne were forcibly confined to a reservation, she kept escaping with bands of soldiers and attacking white settlements.

Also, is it too late to change Ralphie’s name from “Brandy” to “Buffalo Calf Road Woman”?

Welcome to the GHOF, Buffalo Calf Road Woman.

Mick Foley

Mick Foley is a hardcore legend.

The WWF wrestler famously had his ear ripped off in a wrestling match against former-CU-football-legend-turned-wrestling-monster Big Van Vader (Leon White). He lost count of how many stitches he’s gotten around the time he hit 325 stitches (really!). Here’s a partial list of injuries: nose broken twice, broken jaw, dislocated left shoulder, fractured left shoulder, broken thumb, 12 broken ribs, torn meniscus, torn abdominal, broken right wrist, bone chips in elbow, two herniated discs, second degree burns, separated right shoulder, 8 teeth knocked out, and at least 12 concussions —- yet he still dances The Hustle as Dude Love.

Also, he got thrown off Hell in a Cell by some dead guy and lived to tell the story.

Welcome to the GHOF, Mick/Mankind/Cactus Jack/Dude Love.

Candidates for induction into the GHOF next year include Malala Yousafazi, Nate Landman, the rock-climber-that-cut-his-own-arm-off, and the Russian guys that carries Vladimir Putin’s shit around.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/putin-took-a-dump-in-alaska-but-carried-the-poop-back-to-russia/ar-AA1KJgP6

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