2002 Fleer Focus Jersey Edition #11FR Ricky Williams Freeze Frame
I'll leave you with this. There's a Brett Favre Freeze Frame card in this set. FLEER FOCUS FREEZE FRAME FAVRE. Try saying that five times fast.
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Sunday, December 15, 2019
2019 Card-vent Calendar: December 15
December 15, 2019:
2002 Fleer Focus Jersey Edition #11FR Ricky Williams Freeze Frame
It's a football Sunday with a full slate of games today, the biggest of which is Packers-Bears at Lambeau. Neither of these teams appears on this card, which actually features three of them. The coloring indicates Ricky Williams is a member of the Dolphins, but the acetate "slide" embedded shows him carrying the ball against the 49ers while playing for the Saints. Yet another example of a card company trying something different in an era without exclusive licensing.
I'll leave you with this. There's a Brett Favre Freeze Frame card in this set. FLEER FOCUS FREEZE FRAME FAVRE. Try saying that five times fast.
2002 Fleer Focus Jersey Edition #11FR Ricky Williams Freeze Frame
I'll leave you with this. There's a Brett Favre Freeze Frame card in this set. FLEER FOCUS FREEZE FRAME FAVRE. Try saying that five times fast.
Thursday, December 5, 2019
2019 Card-vent Calendar: December 5
December 5, 2019:
1960 Fleer #56 Gene Cockrell
Not fair. Going around, knocking guys down with a big-ass marshmallow.
Defensive lineman gets leveled by Cockrell, loses consciousness for a few seconds. Trainer comes out with the smelling salts, he comes to.
Coach: "Williams! What day is it today?"
Williams: "Marshmallow. Got hit by a big-ass marshmallow."
And thus, the league took another baby step forward in the interest of player safety. Studies linking the Big-Ass Marshmallow Era with Alzheimer's, pre-geriatric incontinence, fits of the vapors, and early death were never totally conclusive, relying more on correlation than causation. Still, MABAM (Mothers Against Big-Ass Marshmallows), and other organizations like it, got their way. The NFL came for the intra-end zone goal posts, but not before outlawing big-ass marshmallows. Some of us are old enough to remember big-ass marshmallows kicking around the semi-pro circuit well into the late 1970s, but the once-familiar sounds of "POOF" emanating from the gridiron are now but a distant memory. And the startup Dubuque Graham Crackers? Well, let's just say the franchise never stood a chance.
Next Week - Third Base Moats: The Failed Experiment
1960 Fleer #56 Gene Cockrell
Defensive lineman gets leveled by Cockrell, loses consciousness for a few seconds. Trainer comes out with the smelling salts, he comes to.
Coach: "Williams! What day is it today?"
Williams: "Marshmallow. Got hit by a big-ass marshmallow."
And thus, the league took another baby step forward in the interest of player safety. Studies linking the Big-Ass Marshmallow Era with Alzheimer's, pre-geriatric incontinence, fits of the vapors, and early death were never totally conclusive, relying more on correlation than causation. Still, MABAM (Mothers Against Big-Ass Marshmallows), and other organizations like it, got their way. The NFL came for the intra-end zone goal posts, but not before outlawing big-ass marshmallows. Some of us are old enough to remember big-ass marshmallows kicking around the semi-pro circuit well into the late 1970s, but the once-familiar sounds of "POOF" emanating from the gridiron are now but a distant memory. And the startup Dubuque Graham Crackers? Well, let's just say the franchise never stood a chance.
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