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When you say you'd give your pinkie finger for something -- be it a burger when you're starving or a night with Megan Fox -- do you really mean it?

Trevor Wikre, a senior right guard on the Mesa State College football team in Colorado, faced that decision recently and chose to have his pinkie finger removed, rather than going through season-ending surgery and missing the final months of his team's season. Wikre injured the finger while playing, and a doctor told him that with the "severe dislocation," he'd have to go under the knife and be out of action. The injury came in Wikre's final season of college ball, and with his team undefeated in conference, his response to doctors was straightforward: "Cut it off. It's just a pinkie."

The surgeon at first told him not to be dramatic, but eventually decided that he would respect Wikre's choice because there was the possibility of arthritis and other medical complications if it was left untreated. After signing a waiver, the surgeon lopped off the top two digits of the pinkie, and now Wikre is back practicing with his team.

The seemingly drastic action has even become a joke -- teammates ask for "high fours" and reason that he should now get 10 percent fewer holding calls. "This team is too good, and there's too much love," says Wikre. "There was no way I was missing out."

Question Raised: Is Wikre really passionate or really crazy?