CARDS: Action Packed 1990, Score 1990
ACQUIRED: TTM 2023, C/o Home
SENT: 8/28/23 RECEIVED: 4/6/24 (222 days)

CAREER SNAPSHOT:

• See Maurice Hurst

NOTES:

After all these years I still needed Maurice on his Action Packed 1990 card. The Score was just gravy. Of note, Maurice’s son plays DT in the NFL now.

CARD: Panini Rookies & Stars 2010 Certified
ACQUIRED: eBay, 2026

CAREER SNAPSHOT:

• See Also Jerry Hughes Jr
• Jerry had a really solid 9 total seasons with Buffalo there and displayed versatility across the line playing OLB, RDE, and LDE over his career there.
• He never hit double digit sacks again but his presence was solid and consistent, and he tended to show up in big games.
• After the 2021 season, Jerry signed with the Houston Texans.
• While with Houston, he enjoyed sort of a career renaissance, posting 9 sacks, an interception, and 2 forced fumbles, along with 35 total tackles.
• He’d retire from football after the 2024 campaign.

NOTES:

Jerry joined the Texans during the very short Lovie Smith epoch. The signing really made sense for both parties. They took a small chance on a seasoned veteran at DE, and Jerry got to come home of sorts- as he hailed from Sugar Land and played college ball up the street at TCU. I remember the collective groan from social media about the signing, but if there was a bright spot there it was Jerry. He’d get to see the team reborn and rise to division champs twice before ultimately retiring.

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: