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NFL, University of Texas

Tubbs, Marcus

CARD: UT Upper Deck 2011 HACK
ACQUIRED: 2024, Future Considerations

CAREER SNAPSHOT:

  • Marcus Tubbs played DT for the University of Texas from 1999-’03.
  • In 48 games (36 starts) he tallied 207 tackles, 41 tackles for loss, 15 sacks, and 5 forced fumbles.
  • A first round pick of the Seattle Seahawks in 2004.
  • Over a 4 year career ravaged by injuries, Marcus had his best season in 2005, when he recorded 40 total tackles, 6 sacks and 2 forced fumbles.
  • He had microfracture surgery in 2006 after 6 games.
  • In 2007, Marcus was placed on IR during the preseason but did not see the field again.
  • With his playing career cut short, Marcus retired back to Austin, Texas to work for the University of Texas Athletic Department.
  • In 2016 he joined the University of Houston Athletic Department.
  • Later he’d go on to work in the medical field.

NOTES:

I love the UT Upper Deck 2011 set but there’s a lot of missing names so I decided to ‘hack’ out the set for a few more players- which turned out to be about 100. As I was going along I wanted to turn it into a living set, and in conversation, Marcus’ name came up.

Apparently Mark’s daughter plays volleyball with his daughter, so it was easy to get, if I came up with the card. Mark and him were pretty impressed by my choice of card. It was a bit on the dark side, and for some reason the orange horizontal lines are missing or too thin to see, but otherwise it came out nicely.

NFL, University of Texas

Johnson, Derrick ‘DJ’ (4)

CARDS: Panini UT 2016 Honors, Score 2018, UT Upper Deck 2011 HACK, Upper Deck 2008, Panini Select 2014, Donruss 2018, SP 2008,
ACQUIRED: In Person, 2024

CAREER SNAPSHOT:

NOTES:

Well I had run into DJ at the food court when I was getting Bo Jackson at Barton Creek a few years ago, and got pants down without any cards. I hadn’t done a hard target search of cards for him that I liked up to that point, and then the idea came to me to just expand and turn the Upper Deck UT 2011 set into a ‘living set’. Afterwards I found a few cards that I liked, and waited for the next in person signing. Eventually the wait paid off, and my friend Mark G came through with a stack of extras when the event came up.

A local Cadillac dealer held an in person event in late August. It was a very nice little event. Both Mark and Jeff and his family came out. The regulars were in force, but it wasn’t too awkward or overwhelming. DJ came in early and just started signing. He also answered a lot of questions.

On being a Raider? He smiled and said it was a cash grab, and that they were seeing if there was still anything left in the tank. He also talked about LaDanian Tomlinson being the most difficult player for him to tackle, and that he just had this clever combination of size, speed and power- and he loved to talk smack to DJ since they were both from Waco. I shared my connection to DJ and he was surprised that he knew the street that my Grandparents lived on and I visited. All in all it was a very good event. Everyone left with everything they wanted signed.

I got 14 cards. So why aren’t there 14 cards pictured here? Simple: I gave half of them away. Why? Because I like sharing in the joy I have for this hobby. I run a very small, tight knit, autograph group. It’s unique and different than the other groups on Facebook and to those who participate and make it unique- I want to pay it forward.