CARD: Score 2009 Gold Zone Inscriptions
ACQUIRED: EBay, 2024

CAREER SNAPSHOT:

• QB Nathan Brown is sorta a folk hero at Central Arkansas.
• In his senior campaign he threw 31 TDs to just 4 picks, on 255 of 376 passing.
• As starting QB from 2005-’08, Brown threw for 10,558 yards and 100 touchdowns in his career- posting a 30-10 record as a starter.
• Set and broke many of the records for the school, and was the first UCA player to go to the East-West Game.
• An UDFA after the 2009 draft, he’d spend time with both the Jaguars and Saints.
• Nathan quickly jumped back to his alma mater as a QB Coach in 2010.
• He then worked up to OC in 2014, before ultimately taking over the head coaching reins at the school in 2018.

ACQUIRED: IP 2023, San Antonio Brahmas Meet & Greet

CAREER SNAPSHOT:

• Ben Davis played ball at Alabama from 2017-’20, but seldom saw playtime in the Crimson Tide’s LB corps.
• Transferred to UT in 2021 and played as a super senior.
• Saw action in all 11 games, recording 16 tackles, 2.5 sacks, and 4.5 tackles for loss.
• Going undrafted, Ben played in the CFL with the Edmonton Elks.
• In 2023, Ben joined the San Antonio Brahmas of the XFL.
• A team captain, Ben finished with 15 tackles, and 2 tfl in 156 total snaps.
• As the Brahmas went through a complete overhaul after joining the UFL and switching coaches, Ben was not brought back in ’24.
• After the season concluded Ben was signed by the Houston Roughnecks.

NOTES:

I was surprised that Ben Davis didn’t have a card available- even via Sage/HIT. Anyway I printed out these nice photos of him and away we went! He was super nice and really appreciated that I drove down from Austin, as well as that I was a season ticket holder.

CARDS: Pro Set 1989, Fleer 1990, Topps 1990, Gameday 1992
ACQUIRED: TTM 2019, C/o Home
SENT: 11/23 RECEIVED: 12/5 (12 days)

CAREER SNAPSHOT:

• See Paul Gruber

NOTES:

I had gotten Paul through the Canton Acquisition way back in 2013, and posted it almost immediately to my feed. After many years I pulled out these cards and decided to send to him, knocking off all my set needs in one fell swoop. -Gruber is very kind to the TTM community and signed every card.

My friends and I used to call him ‘Hans’- after the titular bad guy from the film ‘Die Hard’. We’d frequently say, “SHOOT DA GLASS!”, When Paul was mentioned in any format or when we were playing Tecmo Super Bowl. -Those were the days.