Ohio Superstar, The Mighty Quinn of Notre Dame

"C'mon without, c'mon within, you'll not see nothin' like the Mighty Quinn"

So, spoke the poet, a former Minnesota native, named Robert Zimmerman.

The truth is, this born and bred native Buckeye from Columbus, just could be one of the finest college players of his generation.

Brady Quinn was born in 1984 and graduated from High School in Dublin, Ohio. He accepted a scholarship to play for Notre Dame where he broke 36 Irish records.

Among those are 10 career records, 12 single season records, four single game records, and 10 miscellaneous records.

He is 10th in the all-time history of the NCAA for passing yards and ninth all-time in touchdown passes.

Quinn’s interception ratio is the lowest in Notre Dame history.

He had a 60% career passing completion rate.

These records dwarf those of former Irish QBs, Joe Montana, Paul Hornung, and Joe Theisman, who were all pretty good players in their day.

Brady won 29 games as a starter, which is a golden dome record.

In 2005, Brady Quinn won the Sammy Baugh Award as the nation's best passer and he finished fourth in the Heisman Trophy race behind Reggie Bush, Vince Young, and Ben Lienhart.

In '06, he finished third in the Heisman chase and won the Johnny Unitas Award for best quarterback, as well as The Maxwell Award for the best college football player of the year.

He ended his career with a loss to LSU in the Sugar Bowl.

A number of people can say that.

He was then, drafted by his beloved Cleveland Browns, several weeks after graduating from Notre Dame with two degrees; one, in finance and the other in political science.

Smart, sharp, and talented, he is the all-American boy from Middle America.

Only time will tell if Brady Quinn does for the Browns, what he did for the Irish.

What we do know now is he left a remarkable list of achievements in college football, and the game is better off for the presence of the Mighty Quinn.