EAST LANSING -- Rocky Lombardi was officially introduced to the college football world on Saturday.
The redshirt freshman Michigan State quarterback threw for 318 yards and two touchdowns in the Spartans' 23-13 win over Purdue on Saturday, marking the second-most yards a Spartans quarterback has ever thrown for in his first start.
Now, the college football world wants to know: what's the story with that name?
Michigan State QB Rocky Lombardi delivers 'tremendous' performance in first career start
To answer your first two questions, Lombardi is neither named after a famous fictional boxer nor related to a legendary football coach.