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.
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.
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.
It seems like I knew that at one point - I think his name is throwing me off.
“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”
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.
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.