SET: TNT SIGNATURE SELECT
STATUS: PAUSED
ACTIVE: 2012-
CARDS SIGNED: 10/13
PRODUCED 13/16

BACKGROUND:

I really liked Gameday from the early ’90s and how they used the ‘long tom’ look, but I wanted to take it a bit further with the design.

DESIGN NOTES:

I made all the cards landscape format and then devoted a small area for the player busting out of the image. I really liked how these came out with throwback logos and the patch effect.

By this point I started going through a phase of not numbering cards, rather, their placement in the collection is based on when I got them autographed. So essentially, Priest Holmes is #1, Ricky Williams is #2 and so on.

I would’ve kept rolling on the set but it’s a super pain to produce as no printer that I’m aware of accommodates for long tom cards, so I had to do them and print them by hand on the hardest paper I could find- which was still below card grade, on crappy printers. So in this case, my legends set is paused.

Mel Renfro liked his so much I sent a few to him to keep. Of the entire set, Herb Adderley was the only one who didn’t respond TTM. I was unable to secure either DeMarcus Ware or Earl Campbell at a test drive event for GMC where I earned a ton of autograph cards for them- but the lines were too long.

There are a few unproduced ones I may address later including Warren Moon, Ernest Givins, and Andre Johnson.

UNPRODUCED: