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IFL, NFL

Grossman, Burt ‘Big Mouth’

CARD: Fleer 1990, Action Packed 1990, Pro Set 1989
ACQUIRED: eBay, 2025, TTM 2026, C/o Home
SENT: 3/21/26 RECEIVED: 4/9/26 (19 days)
FAILURE: TTM 2021, C/o San Diego Strikeforce

CAREER SNAPSHOT:

  • Burt Grossman rose to prominence as a defensive end for Pitt from 1985-88.
  • A rangy, prototypical defensive lineman, with great speed, Burt was limited in his Senior campaign in ’88 due to an ankle injury.
  • Still managed to post 71 tackles, 7 sacks and 17 quarterback pressures.
  • Highest rated defensive lineman who was selected 8th overall, in the 1989 NFL Draft.
  • Plugged in as a starter at RDE and posted 10 sacks and 60+ tackles in back to back seasons (1989 and 1990).
  • Played for the San Diego Chargers through the ’93 campaign.
  • In 5 seasons, Burt tallied 255 tackles, 38.0 sacks, 3 safeties, and 5 fumbles in 71 games.
  • Signed with the Philadelphia Eagles in 1994, and tallied 21 tackles and 5.5 sacks, before suffering a career ending neck injury.
  • Afterwards Burt went into TV and media journalism writing for the now defunct “National Football Post” and co-hosting the Eagles Hour.
  • Named HC of the IFL San Diego Strikeforce in 2019.
  • After COVID, Burt did not return to coach the team.

ACCOLADES:

  • Regional Sports Emmy Award 1995

NOTES:

Burt’s not a reliable signer TTM so I went ahead and picked this one up via eBay. Then literally a week or so after I put this post together, he just started signing out of the blue! I ran the Pro Set and the Action Packed out the door as soon as I could, but couldn’t find the Skybox 92. The TTM gods were looking out for me as a half torn, damaged envelope arrived with the two autographs inside.

Despite his injury shortened career ‘Big Mouth’ was a pretty solid DL notching 43.5 sacks in 6 seasons. Burt’s legendary big mouth was chronicled in Sports Illustrated in 1990.

NFL

Williams, Lee (2)

CARDS: Fleer 1990, Pro Set 1989
ACQUIRED: eBay, 2025

CAREER SNAPSHOT:

NOTES:

Some of these guys are getting impossible to get, so I’ve had to rely more and more on my ability to identify authentic and fake autographs through eBay. -I absolutely hate it.

I had forgotten that I had acquired Lee from a private acquisition sometime way, way back in 2014. I disliked the Upper Deck 1993 so much that I delayed posting it and had forgotten I’d already written up a snapshot of Lee in 2016.

Chipping away the Fleer 90 and Pro Set 89 were two I were after. Strangely I don’t remember seeing these two cards in the wild. It’d be years later I’d get a Fleer 90 box for like 10 bucks. Smelled like cigars, but hey, I knew what his card looked like. Still have the Action Packed, Gameday 92, and I think a Score Supplemental floating around out there to get autographed though.

NFL

O’Neal, Leslie (2)

CARD: Fleer 1990
ACQUIRED: eBay, 2025

CAREER SNAPSHOT:

NOTES:

You know I sat on Leslie’s autograph that I had gotten through a friend for quite sometime thinking I’d pick O’Neal up on something later on. That time came and past and of course right after I posted it this year, this Fleer 1990 I needed popped up. I couldn’t resist at just 3 bucks.