# Who Knows What "Getting the Heisman" Means in the Dating Context? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 5, 2006, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-knows-what-getting-the-heisman-means-in-the-dating-context/379146 "2006-11-05T02:39:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-knows-what-getting-the-heisman-means-in-the-dating-context/379146/61 "2006-11-07T16:07:58Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] (Doing a little Googling, I was closer than I have any right to be for a football metaphor. [Joe Theisman leg break video.](http://www.extremesportclips.com/viewvideo.php?vid=299) I didn’t watch it, because I don’t want to see a guy breaking his leg so badly that the thigh bone sticks out.) [/QUOTE] I remember that game. Don’t worry, it wasn’t the thigh, but it was a very, very nasty calf break. Still painful to watch. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-knows-what-getting-the-heisman-means-in-the-dating-context/379146/62 "2006-11-07T16:21:57Z")
I’ve never heard it, but I understood what the guy meant right away, and that “getting the Heisman” must mean “getting the stiffarm.” For that matter, I have heard “getting the stiffarm” quite a bit. From others, I mean. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-knows-what-getting-the-heisman-means-in-the-dating-context/379146/63 "2006-11-07T21:07:58Z")
I’m 31 and had never heard the term before this thread. I also had only the vaguest idea that Heisman was something sports related, but that didn’t help at all in trying to figure out what the term meant. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-knows-what-getting-the-heisman-means-in-the-dating-context/379146/64 "2006-11-07T23:42:30Z")
[QUOTE=D\_Odds] I remember that game. Don’t worry, it wasn’t the thigh, but it was a very, very nasty calf break. Still painful to watch. [/QUOTE] It seems like I knew that at one point - I think his name is throwing me off. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-knows-what-getting-the-heisman-means-in-the-dating-context/379146/65 "2006-11-08T00:17:21Z")
“Dude, she gave me the Heisman”. Never having heard this phrase before, I would’ve assumed that she made an offensive\* maneuver and scored big. _offensive_ as in “pertaining to offense or attack”, not “unpleasant or disagreeable to the sense” ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-knows-what-getting-the-heisman-means-in-the-dating-context/379146/66 "2006-11-08T00:17:27Z")
Never heard of it and, knowing only that it’s a coveted trophy, chalk me under the people who’d have said “All right! MY MAN!” had they heard you say it. It would have been rather uncomfortable all around. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-knows-what-getting-the-heisman-means-in-the-dating-context/379146/67 "2006-11-08T15:51:55Z")
I knew what the Trophy is and what it looked like, went to college stateside and lived there for 15 years, and until I opened this thread had not once heard or read the expression used in this context. At all. Ever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-knows-what-getting-the-heisman-means-in-the-dating-context/379146.md?page=3)