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, Viking/Bronco Gary Zimmerman, and probably the...
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 featuring Charles Aaron...
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 in the not too distant future, Mitch...
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 started the trend of retiring early to do...
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 drafted in the first round by the New...
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 episode of some ridiculous show starring...
