CARD: University of Texas Upper Deck 2011
ACQUIRED: Ebay, 2024
FAILURE: TTM 2018, TTM 2021 C/o Home

CAREER SNAPSHOT:

• After redshirting his Freshman year and converting from TE, OL Terry Tausch played from 1978-’81 for the Texas Longhorns.
• A 4 year letterman, he earned all-conference honors in both 1980 and ’81.
• A second round pick of the Minnesota Vikings in 1982.
• He’d start 68 of 81 games with the Vikings through 1988.
• Provided valuable depth in his final season with the San Fransisco 49ers in 1989- winning the Super Bowl.

ACCOLADES:

• Texas Athletics Hall of Honor 2001

NOTES:

I had some very bad luck getting Terry. So I’d like to state for the record that I hadn’t found anything on Terry’s passing when I sent to him in 2021. Otherwise I’d seen a few successes post 2018 trickle through and I had no clue why mine didn’t get back.

On top of that I asked my old friend Spoodog if he had any certifieds of Terry since he had so many of the set. I’m just not sure what happened to him over the years. I reached out to him a few times but he didn’t even bother responding. He said some smarmy things to me about travel- then 6 months later did the same thing. Then he and his wife up and moved to Michigan. I hope they’re doing well though.

I went ahead and bit the bullet on this one and bought it off of EBay. It wasn’t terribly expensive. With that I’ve completed out the player portion of the 2011 UT Upper Deck set. Now all that remains is two Memorable Moments from the set.

EPITAPH:

3/27/2020- Terry passed away at his home in Plano suddenly at the age of 61. No cause of death was given.