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The story behind Jake Fromm's fishing accident

Related Topics: Jake Fromm, Accident, Fishing, Erich Fromm

LOS ANGELES -- When you see it now, you wonder what the heck's the big deal. It just looks like a picked scab.

But when you hear Georgia quarterback Jake Fromm tell the story about how he got a fishhook caught in his left calf last month, boy is it a whale of a tale.

Gone fishin'

The day started innocently enough. Fromm and buddy Jordan Rowe, a member of Georgia's bass fishing team and an aspiring country music singer, spent all day cruising around a pond in Rowe's hometown of Adel (heavy emphasis on the hard A), Georgia, two weeks ago.