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Daft, Kevin

Topps 2000, #347

Cards: Topps 2000, Bowman NFLE 2000 Chrome
Acquired: TTM 2021, C/o Work
Sent: 8/3 Received: 10/16 (74 days)

CAREER SNAPSHOT:

  • Set 5 NCAA collegiate passing records while quarterbacking for UC Davis while throwing for 7601 yards and 68 TDs in college career.
  • Finalist for Harlon Hill Trophy in 1999.
  • 1999 5th round pick of the Tennessee Titans.
  • Joined NFLE in 2000, playing for the Scottish Claymores leading the franchise to the World Bowl.
  • Set NFLE mark with a 107.3 QB rating.
  • Returned to the NFL but was on and off the rosters of the Titans, Chargers, Falcons, and 49ers through 2001.
  • Resigned with the Titans in 02, and was allocated to the NFLE.
  • Played 2002 with the Amsterdam Admirals.
  • Set NFLE record with 30 career TD passes.
  • Signed with the AFL, playing with the San Jose Sabrecats in 2003, and the Albany Firebirds in 2004.
  • Has seen extensive stints at the college level, enjoying a season in the UFL as the WRs coach of the Omaha Nighthawks in 2011.
  • As of 2022, is head coach of Dartmouth.
Bowman 2000 Chrome, #157

NOTES:

Kevin didn’t have a shortage of cards, but I really wanted to get his NFLE entries autographed. Unfortunately the only ones he had in the league were Claymores cards. Still nice grab C/o Dartmouth.

NFLE

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486289321259.5341265T92.2
RUSHYDSAVGTDLG
491994.119


ARENA

ATTCOMPYDSPCTTDINTLGRAT
221413563.63120N/A
NFL, Super Bowl MVP

Rypien, Mark (3)

CARD: Pro Set 1990 Super Bowl MVP Hack
ACQUIRED: TTM 2022, C/o Home
SENT: 9/14 RECEIVED: 9/24 (10 days)

CAREER SNAPSHOT:

NOTES:

I am just beside myself with my greatest trading card accomplishment. It is fitting that the first player that I got an autograph of on my Pro Set 1990 Super Bowl Hack card would be the first player who didn’t receive the Merv Corning treatment, Super Bowl XXVI MVP Mark Rypien.

Since I was a kid, I loved these cards and consider them one of the best subsets ever in the trading card industry. It disappointed me immensely that Pro Set didn’t continue making Merv Corning MVP works after Ottis Anderson (Super Bowl XXV) so I thought, if I ever had the chance, I’d do it myself. I was inspired.

Frankly it took me a long time to get to this point. A lot of personal pain, the humiliation and burn out from a previous design job, leaving the art field again, only to take this challenge upon myself finally to see this through- all over the last year.

The OJ Anderson MVP card was the final Merv Corning art card from this set (L), The Rypien and Aikman cards seamlessly transition to the additional set.

I painstakingly made sure that the design was as close as possible to the original. The typography, both front and back, the colors, matching the alignment, ensuring fidelity to the originals, and that’s without even doing the artwork and tinkering with the printer.

Eventually I posted them to the Facebook autograph group I am an admin of, and then started printing them out in early September of that year. I hadn’t been this excited in a while to get a return like this- except for the fact that Mark signed it on the back.