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College Football HoF, NFL, XFL

Westbrook, Brian

SP 2008, #60
Playoff Prestige 2010, #149
Score 2008, #240

CAREER SNAPSHOT:

  • Brian Westbrook played RB at Villanova from 1997-01.
  • In 46 college games, he carried the ball for 4,298 yards, with 84 TDs, caught 219 passes for 2,582 yards (11.79 avg.) and gained 2,289 yards and four TDs on kick returns.
  • He holds the all-time NCAA record with 9,512 all-purpose yards.
  • Selected in the 3rd round of the 2002 NFL Draft by the Philadelphia Eagles.
  • Worked his way into the starting lineup in 2004.
  • Had back to back 1200+ yard rushing seasons in 2006-’07.
  • A gifted receiver out of the backfield, caught 50+ passes in 5 straight seasons, with a career high 90 for 771 yards in 2007.
  • Played with the Eagles through 2009, concluding his career with a final season with the ‘9ers the following season.

ACCOLADES:

  • Pro Bowl 2004, ’07
  • All-Pro 2007
  • Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame
  • Philadelphia Eagles 75th Anniversary Team
  • College Football Hall of Fame
  • Villanova University Varsity Club Hall of Fame 2016
  • Walter Payton Award 2001
  • Senior Bowl Hall of Fame

NOTES:

I had heard that Brian was a player rep for the league. I had packed cards on occasion and kept hoping he’d appear. Along the way I had lost the two cards I wanted signed the most. Knowing the XFL Championship was coming up and that’d be the best chance I’d have at getting him, I packed these three cards.

When I got inside the stadium I found my seat, and IDed him almost immediately, but I wasn’t 100% sure. He was in a crowd so I Googled him to be sure, and then called out his name. He looked surprised a fan IDed him in the stands and ambled over. He signed my three cards for me and asked me what team I was cheering on. I told him that I thought the Renegades would win. I had a good feeling. The energy was with them and they were surging. Westbrook shook his head and said no way! It’s gotta be the Defenders. They had a solid season and are stacked!

-The Renegades ended up winning 35-26.

Unfortunately after the USFL and XFL merged, Brian’s position was considered redundant.

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CFL, NFL, NFLE, XFL

Barnes, Pat (2)

Cards: Topps XFL 2001, Topps XFL 2001 Promo, Bowman NFLE 2000
Acquired: TTM 2019, C/o Home
Sent: 4/18 Received: 5/28 (40 days)
See Also: Pat Barnes

Before the XFL 2020 season began, I started to reminisce about the XFL 2001. A few of the players who played in the XFL had fished in NFLE waters, so I thought it was time to revisit a few of them including the venerable Pat Barnes. Pat had a really nice chrome Topps card from his NFLE days that I liked, as well as the 2 Topps XFL cards. The design, sans the photos used, are almost the same. The only difference is the lower case typeface is used on the promo card. In this case, I liked the look of the promo card a bit more, just based on the photography used.

As of 2020, Patrick Barnes is a Principal with Avison Young who specializing in investment sales within Southern California marketplace for the last 15 years.  His expertise is in understanding the capital markets, creating value in an investment transaction, knowing and accessing investors and developing marketing strategies for commercial investment properties in Southern California on behalf of institutional clients, publicly traded companies, high net worth ownership and foreign Investors. Patrick excels in all facets of the real estate asset cycle including identifying target assets, rigorous financial modeling & analysis, entitling, marketing, leasing, and selling investor and occupier assets.

Patrick’s diverse experience covers a wide range of properties and deal size, ranging from $1M to over $50million. Over the course of Patrick’s career, he has sold over 300 properties and over $1 Billion in consideration.

Patrick Resides in Westchester California with his wife Summer and three children. Patrick enjoys being a husband, father, spending free time in the outdoors, fly-fishing, camping, hiking and hunting.



NFL

Conner, Tony

Card: Panini Contenders 2017
Acquired: 2017, Box Breaker

Tony Conner played strong safety for Ole Miss. He had standout years as a Freshman and as a Sophomore, earning Freshman All-American Honors. After starting 28 consecutive games for the Rebels, Conner had a knee injury and two surgeries that limited he to five games in his junior season. Tony rebounded in 2016 and started all 12 games for Ole Miss as a senior. An in the box safety who is a good tackler and run supporter, Tony had only two interceptions and 13 pass breakups over his career at Ole Miss. He went unselected during the 2017 NFL Draft.

Tony was given a tryout at minicamp by the 49ers and the team moved him to linebacker. He was invited to camp after that but did not make the squad. Tony might make a nice fit for one of the new spring leagues picking up steam in the next two years- as at this time he is a free agent.