Three hundred and ten men have been enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame since it was founded in 1963. It's safe to say none of the gold jackets traveled a more improbable path to football immortality than Morten Andersen.
The leading scorer in NFL history never saw a football until he was 17 years old. The story of how he would one day earn induction in the hallowed Hall is one of perseverance and serendipity. And it began more than 5,000 miles and an ocean away from Canton, Ohio.
Andersen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, but raised in the fishing village of Struer, a hamlet of 10,261 on the Jutland peninsula.