Sorry for the delay in this week’s Card of the Week–had some computer issues this week. I was going to try to find an approporiate Pro Bowl card this week, but none of my 1990 Pro Set cards really impressed me, and the only “cool” Pro Bowl card I had that I could think of was a recent Steve Hutchinson jersey card that I picked up on eBay for some reason.
But, as I was stumbling my way across the Interweb, I landed on an article about former Houston Oilers linebacker John Grimsley, who unfortunately was killed this week, apparently while cleaning his own gun.
Since I thought I vaguely remembered Grimsley’s playing days, I took a quick peak on Beckett to see how many cards of him existed, and lo and behold, his rookie card was from the 1987 Topps set, which happened to be a set that I collected in my youth (and also a set that I bought a box of on eBay for old times sake last year).
So, I dug out one of my boxes that had some 1987 cards, and sure enough, in the first batch I pulled out, there was a Grimsley rookie card. It won’t ever win any awards for being the prettiest card, or most valuable card (it books at $0.10 I believe), but a card related to a story about an interesting guy who had a decent career (including a Pro Bowl appearance), and managed to live his life after football enjoying what he did, and not getting in trouble with the law, or anything like that–something I wish would get publicized more for former NFL players (and I imagine the NFL wouldn’t mind either).
He has a great mustache.
Nice card. Those Gatorade cups were great.
The Oilers were my team when growing up in Saints country. I wanted to punish defenses like Earl Campbell.
Cool blog and I will add it to my blogroll.
Thanks for the add, Joe. I’ll add a link to you as well.