Even by college football’s wacky standards, the story of Notre Dame quarterback Sam Hartman and his removed rib qualifies as downright bizarre.
The sixth-year senior transfer from Wake Forest had a rib surgically removed late last year. Since then, he’s switched schools and begun practicing with the Fighting Irish. But although the rib is no longer causing him any trouble, that doesn’t mean it’s out of his life for good.
Hartman said on Thursday that the rib is currently in the possession of his mother, and that she is in the process of fashioning the bone into, of all things, a necklace, according to ESPN’s David Hale. The new adornment is expected to be ready in a few weeks, in plenty of time for Notre Dame’s season opener against Navy on Aug. 26 in Dublin, Ireland.
