CARDS: Topps Traded 1990, Pro Set 1991 ACQUIRED: TTM 2024, C/o Home SENT: 12/10 RECEIVED: 12/24 (14 days) FAILURE: TTM 2023, C/o Home
CAREER SNAPSHOT:
After blocking up front for Legends such as Bo Jackson and Brent Fullwood at Auburn, Tommie Agee was a 5th round pick of the Seattle Seahawks.
He spent his entire rookie year on IR in 1987 due to a knee injury, and then saw little playing time in ’88.
The following season in ’89 he played for the Chiefs- where Tommie had four special teams tackles and very little else statwise backing up Christian Okoye.
Joined the Cowboys in ’90 as a free agent.
Ran for a career high 212 yards and caught 30 passes for 272 yards as well as his first career TD seeing action at RB and FB.
The following year he scored his first and only professional rushing TD.
Played with the Cowboys through most of the 1994 season and was not resigned after the season.
ACCOLADES:
Alabama Sports Hall of Fame
NOTES:
Never got Tommie at Cowboys Training camp, so I figured it was time to shoot out a few cards. He moved in the interim, and my initial request wasn’t returned.
Tommie is an important behind the scenes backfield connection to the stars. He blocked and took spells for names such as Brent Fullwood and Bo Jackson in college, then briefly for Curt Warner and John L Williams at Seattle. After that it was off to KC with league leading rusher Christian Okoye, and finally in Dallas for Emmitt Smith.
He’d start the first contest in franchise history against the Barcelona Dragons, but was supplanted in the lineup by Jeff Graham.
Throughout the season, Hammel saw spotty playing time.
Signed with the Arena Football League in 1992 and joined the Dallas Texans.
After two seasons in Dallas, this led to a stint with the Fort Worth Calvary in 1994.
Then in 1995, it was off to Milwaukee where he saw his greatest success.
In 1998, Todd threw for 60 TDs and 3,100 yards.
Later in 1999, he became the first Arena player to throw for 300 TDs, 1,500 completions and 18,000+ yards.
From 2000 on, Todd entered the journeyman phase of his career, with stops no longer than a season playing for the Bobcats (’00), Thunderbears (’01), Rampage (’02), Gladiators (’03), Soul (’04), Rush (’05), and Crush (’06).
After a 2 year break from the AFL, Hammel returned again to play for the Iron (’09), Sharks/Rush (’10), and finally with the Blaze (’11).
Todd has gone into coaching and has been teaching in the Dallas, Tx area.
ACCOLADES:
J Association Hall of Fame 2003
SFA Hall of Fame 2003
AFL All-Star 1993
NOTES:
As you can see here, I’ve tried Todd quite a few times. One time I even asked a TTM friend of mine who worked in a neighboring school district if he could hit him up for me. No dice on that even. I saw a few successes on him throughout the years so I always wondered what gived? Furthermore I even got a ringing endorsement from his former teammate at SF Austin- Melvin Patterson, to hit Todd up. So after 4 attempts, I spied out an autograph on eBay and pulled the trigger.
That being said, I can finally close the book on the Pro Set 1991 Series II World League player inserts. The 32 card set- not including the 10 helmets, was a laborious effort, as many of these players I really had to work to find their addresses. Two of them were dead when I restarted the project, so I got lucky with Mike Lynn and Jack Elway. Later I also added the only international name in Jacques Dussault. Over the years, I had to eBay out Mark Maye, Ben Bennett– and Todd.
I mean, it was a bit annoying to see Ted signing TTM in 2024 after years of failures stringing back to 2005. So I said to myself, “Why not?”, And packed up a few of his great cards and sent them off for him to autograph. He responded in a pretty fast 8 days.
Celebrating the game, the players, the cards, and the autographs for over 25 years.
