Category: Card of the Week

So, last week was the Pro Football (read: NFL) Hall of Fame induction ceremony, and Hall of Fame game.  Inducted this year were Redskins Art Monk and Darrell Green, coach and player Emmitt Thomas, Patriot Andre Tippett,...

On my way out the door for an extended weekend, but I wanted to get a post up before I left, since I haven’t had much going on lately. Getting back to the Football/Screen Stars themed Cards of the Week, this week...

All right, this week’s football player-turned-actor was on the front of last week’s cello pack of 1979 Topps, and correctly guessed (immediately) by Mitch in what turned out to be way too easy of a contest.  Sometime...

All right, should be some more posts this week, as a package arrived this afternoon.  More on that tomorrow, hopefully. This week’s Card of the Week honoring a football player who forged a career in acting is the man who...

Continuing the theme from last week’s Gary Hogeboom card, this week’s football star turned actor is Fred Dryer. Dryer was a star at San Diego State University (a teammate of Rocky’s Carl Weathers) before being...

I’ve been reading a lot lately about football players wanting to become actors–Jason Taylor was on Dancing with the Stars, hoping to kick start a career in show business.  And Terrell Owens recently appeared on an...

Well, we’re finally back–I think I got the image problem kind of fixed, although I don’t appear to have an actual templated page where the image resides now. I’ll have to keep looking for that. Decided to...

As mentioned last week, I miscounted when I started doing the Countdown to the Draft series–so, like all of the retail boxes I seem to love, you’re getting a bonus that really isn’t much of a bonus this week. I...

The good news: Week 4 of the Countdown to the Draft is here. The bad news: I miscounted, and there is still one more week before the draft–and I don’t have a Week 5 in mind yet.  I initially thought maybe I would do...

We’ve had the Workout Warrior, and the Draft Bust–so this week, we turn to the positive draft results–and probably one of my favorite guys to look for in the draft. This week is the Draft Day Steal, aka Steal...

Last week was the week of the Workout Warrior–so this week is The Draft Bust. There are lots of definitions for a draft bust–some would even call Workout Warriors like Mike Mamula a bust (although I don’t know...

OK, so I didn’t get the post ready before I left.  Nor did I type it up while I was on vacation.  For that I apologize, but I think the timing will work out for the better–Monday will make more sense than Friday for...