#1 Toni Fritsch
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A small and speedy striker, the Austrian spent 8 years at Rapid Vienna, playing 123 games but scoring only 15 goals. He also scored 2 goals in 9 appearances for the Austrian national team. However, no one at the club expected Fritsch to have a great sporting legacy when he left the club in 1971.
The Dallas Cowboys were on a European tour looking for a new kicker and Fritsch happened to be the first player that they scouted. At that point, the forward had never touched an American football, nor ever watched a game. However, he managed to impress then coach Tom Landry, and signed on for them as a free-agent.
Fritsch ended up spending 12 seasons in the NFL. He spent 4 of them at the Cowboys, where he won a Superbowl – making him the only Austrian ever to get a ring – and was selected for the league’s all-star game in 1980, while he was at the Houston Oilers.
He infamously pulled off a rabona once, becoming the only man to ever do so in the NFL. He retired from his second career in 1985, eventually passing away in 2005.
