Mesa State Guard Sacrifices Limb for his Teammates

In a way of literally ‘taking [or losing] one for the team,’ Mesa State’s Trevor Wikre opted not to go through with potential season-ending reconstructive surgery after breaking his pinkie at practice.  Instead, he had it cut off completely.

In Rick Reilly’s column, “How much do you love football?  So much you’d cut off a pinkie to play it?  That’s what Trevor Wikre did,” Reilly tells the story of a player’s rationale behind sacrificing a body part for a sport.