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The story behind Rocky Lombardi's awesome name

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.