Böhringer achieves another NFL first

MN Vikings

| by BMTN Staff

May 11, 2016 7:34 pm

The Minnesota Vikings drafted Germany’s Mortiz Böhringer last month, making him the first player taken in the NFL draft straight from Europe with no college experience.

According to ProFootballTalk, Böhringer will also be the only player in the NFL to have an umlaut on his jersey.

Böhringer, not Boehringer.@MoBoehringer received approval from the @NFL to add the umlaut on his jersey. pic.twitter.com/w5oefFZZtT

— Minnesota Vikings (@Vikings) May 11, 2016

According to Ben Goessling of ESPN, the “oe” in Boehringer’s name is an Americanized version of the surname.

The German version of his last name has no ‘e’ in it.

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