A ref once gave Steve Young a favorable call, tried to hook QB up with his daughter

Steve Young is in Canton but he also has some Hall of Fame stories

Steve Young played played 15 seasons with the Buccaneers and 49ers, won three Super Bowls and was a first-ballot Hall of Famer. But before Young starred in the NFL, he was a standout at BYU and spent two seasons with the USFL's Los Angeles Express. And that fame followed Young to Tampa, his first NFL stop, where he recounts a story in his new book, "QB: My Life Behind the Spiral," about the time during a game with the Bucs when the referee tried to set up him up with his daughter.

It gets weirder from there, via an excerpt in TheMMQB.com:

Even on the field, I can't escape the craziness. We play the Colts at home. Partway through the second quarter I'm in the huddle when the head referee taps me on the shoulder. "Can I talk to you for a second?" he says. I step away from the huddle. "Hey, listen, my daughter's going to BYU," he whispers. Next thing I know he starts trying to convince me that I should meet his daughter. "I'd like you to take her out," he says.

There's more.

I cannot believe this. We're in the middle of a game! "Oh, okay," I said. "What's her name?'' He tells me and I return to the huddle ... Late in the game we're down 31-23 and I'm trying to mount a comeback. I scramble out of the pocket and take a brutal hit. It causes me to fumble just before the whistle blows to stop the play. I am lying on the ground when the defense recovers the loose ball, all but sealing our defeat. Suddenly out of nowhere a yellow flag lands next to me. The referee whose daughter is headed to BYU calls a personal foul on the defense. First down, Tampa Bay. I get up and brush myself off. Then the ref walks past me and whispers she likes Italian food.

Italian food!

Young spent two seasons win Tampa, where he went 3-16. He was traded to the 49ers before the 1987 season, and he served as Joe Montana's backup until 1990. When Young called it a career in 1999, he had amassed a 91-33 record in San Francisco with 29,907 passing yards, 221 touchdowns and 86 interceptions. No word on what happened to the ref or his daughter.