Wide receiver Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch of the Los Angeles Rams. (National Football League)

Hall of Fame wide receiver Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch of the Los Angeles Rams. (National Football League)

Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch of the Rams football team in action, December 5, 1953. (AP Photo/Harold Filan)

Hall of Fame wide receiver Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch of the Los Angeles Rams. (National Football League)

Hall of Fame wide receiver Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch of the Los Angeles Rams in a 1951 photo. (National Football League)

Art Rooney, owner Pittsburgh Steelers, poses with ex-Los Angeles Rams players receiver Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch and quarterback Bob Waterfield. (National Football League)

Coach Sid Gillman, left, who piloted he Los Angeles Rams to the Western Division championship of the NFL in his rookie year, poses with two of his star ends, Elroy Hirsch, center, and Bob Boyd, Dec. 21, 1955. Both are reported ready to play in the championship playoff game against the Cleveland Browns on December 26 in Los Angeles. Boyd and Hirsch missed most of the recent games due to injuries. (AP Photo/Harold Filan)

Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, formerly of Wisconsin and now with Chicago Rockets, takes off uniform after starring in All Star game at Soldier Field, Chicago on August 23, 1946. (Associated Press)

Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch (4) Rockets, skirts against 49ers as halfback William Schroeder (4) runs interference during 3d quarter, pro exhibition game, Sept. 1, 1946. 49ers won, 34-14. (AP Photo/Clarence Hamm)

Chicago Rockets Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch (40) scores a touchdown against the 49ers in this Sept. 1, 1946 photo in San Francisco. Hirsch, an NFL Hall of Famer and later the athletic director at the University of Wisconsin, died early Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2004, of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Madison, Wis. He was 80. He earned his nickname for his running style as a halfback and receiver for the NFL's Los Angeles Rams in the NFL from 1949-57. Before that, he played for the Chicago Rockets of the All-America Football Conference. (Associated Press)

Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, right, receives a trophy from Wisconsin Coach Harry Stuhldreher between halves of All-Stars-Chicago Bears football game in Chicago on August 22, 1947. The trophy was in recognition of Hirsch's being chosen the outstanding player in the all-star game of 1946. (AP Photo/Ed Maloney)

Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch Rams' end, hangs on to a Bob Waterfield pass for 10-yard gain in second quarter of Los Angeles New York game at Yankee Stadium on Nov. 19, 1950. Yankees' back Pete Layden makes unsuccessful try to knock it from receiver's hands. The Rams beat the Yankees 43-35 and retained lead in national division of the National Football League. (Associated Press)

Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, Los Angeles Rams' record smashing end, snares a pass from Bob Waterfield good for 73 yards and a touchdown in the first quarter of Ram-Green Bay game in the Los Angeles Coliseum on Dec. 16, 1951. At left is Ray Pelfrey, Packer end. The Rams won 42 to 14 and will play the Cleveland Browns for the National League championship in Los Angeles on December 23. (Associated Press)

The Los Angeles Rams' great passing receiving ends, Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, left, and Tom Fears spearhead the aerial attack the World champions will throw at Washington in their annual charity game in the Los Angeles Coliseum on August 21. They caught 13 passes between them in the club's victory over the college All-Stars at Chicago on August 15, 1952. Each has been the pass-catching champion of the National Football League. (Associated Press)

Three-year-old Win Hirsch, son of Los Angeles Rams football star Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, appears as himself with his famous father in hall Bartlett's production of "Crazylegs All-American." It's the life story of the former Wisconsin and Michigan All-American, in which young Win performs in scenes at the Los Angeles Coliseum and at the Hirsch home in North Hollywood, Calif., on August 3, 1953. The boy was named for Crazy legs' Wausau, Wis., high school football coach and long-time friend, Win Brockmeyer. (AP Photo/Richard Strobel)

Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch of the Rams football team, December 5, 1953. (AP Photo/Harold Filan)