Chris Ballard, the Indianapolis Colts general manager, began his press conference at the scouting combine with a Frank Gore story.
The team played in blizzard conditions in Buffalo -- so much snow you couldn't read the numbers on players' jerseys -- in Week 14 and handed the ball 36 times to Gore. It was the most carries in his 13-year career and he was 34 years old. He finished with 130 yards and also a broken thumb.
The Colts' next game was four days later on Thursday night.
"And they had said, 'You have to do surgery, just put a little pin in and get it right,'" Ballard recalled.