Who has the widest array of medals in Gaelic Football? We're not talking about the player who has accumulated the largest number of medals, rather the player with the widest array of medals across a host of competitions.
Reader Tony Lyons asserts that Mike Frank Russell has the most comprehensive medal collection in the game.
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He won an All-Ireland minor title with Kerry in 1994 beating Galway in the final. Both their senior teams were loitering unhappily in the wilderness at the time but, inspired by the underage sides of the early 90s, would re-emerge by the late nineties.
In 1995-96, he won an All-Ireland club title - obviously collecting the Kerry county championship and the Munster club along the way - with Laune Rangers. They beat the Carlow champions on the bizarre scoreline of 4-5 to 0-11. Russell told The42.ie earlier this year that this was perhaps the most memorable day of his career.
The same year, he won the Hogan Cup with the Intermediate School in Killorglin. After that, it was onto college. Russell was part of the absurdly gifted IT Tralee team that won the Sigerson Cup in 1997-98. Sigerson veteran Jim McGuinness played with the side as did Padraig Joyce and Michael Donnellan. Barry O'Shea and Colm Parkinson were also part of that setup.
It is clear by the mid-1990s that Kerry wasn't going to remain slouched in the shadows for too much longer. Mike Frank was part of the imperious Kerry U21 All-Ireland winning teams of 1996 and 1998.
With the Kerry seniors, he collected a National League medal under Páidí Ó Sé in 1996-97, Kerry's first League win in thirteen years. Later that year, he won his first senior All-Ireland title, largely starting from the bench. As a replacement, he scored Kerry's only goal in the semi-final win over Cavan.
In 2000, he featured much more prominently as Kerry beat Galway in an All-Ireland final replay. He won Man of the Match in the drawn game and collected an All-Star at the end of the year. Like Iarla Tannian in 2012, his MOTM award is slightly overshadowed by the fact that he wasn't handed it by Michael Lyster and the GAA President at a banquet in town.
The following year, he was part of the successful International Rules tour of Australia.
Naturally, he won another clatter of Munster and All-Ireland titles with Kerry, as well as a few more Leagues. With his club, he won another couple of Kerry titles in 2003 and 2004.
His most significant omission is the Railway Cup, relegated to the status of a rinky-dink tournament in his era. He played for Munster in 2006 and 2007, losing in the 'semi-final' (aka, the first round) in the first year, before reaching and losing the final to Ulster in 2007.
We've no doubt he racked up a series of medals in U10 blitzes as well.
Is there any other player with a medal collection to rival Mike Frank Russell's? Give us a shout.
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