An autographed Wisconsin Badgers mini football helmet by Al Toon #87
Toon played football and ran track at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1981 to 1984
Toon was inducted into the UW Athletics Hall of Fame in 1995
- Earned first-team All-Big Ten honors on the gridiron in 1983 and 1984
- Back-to-back Wisconsin football MVP (1983-84), the first one since Alan Ameche (1953-54)
- Established school career records for receptions (131), touchdown receptions (19) and receiving yards (2,103)
- Set a Big Ten record with 252 yards receiving in a 42-38 win over Purdue in 1983
- Played in the Hula and Japan Bowls following the 1984 season
- Offensive MVP in the Hula Bowl with 10 receptions for 124 yards and two touchdowns
- Won three Big Ten triple jump titles (outdoors in 1983 and both indoor and outdoors in 1984)
- Set the Big Ten triple jump record with a leap of 54-7 ½ in 1983
- All-American in the triple jump both outdoors (12th in 1983) and indoors (sixth in 1984)
- Wisconsin's Male Athlete of the Year in 1984
- Distinguished NFL career with the New York Jets from 1985-92