I am not really a football fan. I have actually seen a football game in person, at my high school when I was a student there, and I didn't enjoy it much. Truth be told, I mostly went to ogle the cheerleaders. Most of the game was spent shooing away mosquitos rather than watching anything. But anyway.
I scanned this card today.
Based on the card back it seems he was a great player, because A) he's in the Hall of Fame and B) he has a trading card set designed as his own, which is something only elite players get. This set was made by the Ted Williams Card Company, too.However, I don't think of football when I see or hear of him. I think of the line in Mark Willis' classic "19 Somethin'"
in which he sings "I was Roger Staubach in my back yard, shoebox full of baseball cards".
This song gets fairly regular airplay on the Sirius channel I listen to, and my local radio station before that, meaning I now permanently associate this football player with this song, and vice-versa.
That's it, that's the essay, making the effort to post more so when I was cropping it I thought to myself "I can make a post about this" and here we are.
Always like songs that drop culture references - Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio
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