CARD: UT Upper Deck 2011 ACQUIRED: TTM 2021, C/o Home SENT: 7/6/20 RECEIVED: 7/20/20 (14 days) FAILURE: TTM 2020, C/o Home
CAREER SNAPSHOT:
Kiki DeAyala played DE and LB at Texas from 1980 to 1982.
A tweener, DeAyala clocked in at 6’1″, 238.
There he earned All SWC Honors in 1982, racking up an unfathomable single season 22.5 sacks, 56 quarterback pressures and 33 tackles for loss.
He finished his UT career with 40.5 career sacks.
Selected by the Washington Federals (USFL) and the Cincinnatti Bengals (NFL) in their respective 1983 Drafts.
Traded by the Federals to the Gamblers and returned to LB fulltime.
Became the anchor of Houston’s defense in ’83 and posted 1.5 sacks and a pick (no tackle data available).
In 84 had another solid season contributing 102 tackles, 39 assists, 3 sacks, and 4 interceptions.
When the USFL folded, Kiki went to the Bengals.
He saw limited playing time for the team, and retired due to lingering injuries (3 shoulder/ 4 knee) and operations after two seasons.
ACCOLADES:
All USFL 1985
NOTES:
I had tried Kiki at the wrong address: An old address. I think when I looked at it on Google maps it was leveled or no longer existed because of a hurricane. Anyway, I shot this out and got this one back, no problem. Over the years I think Kiki has surprisingly only had a USFL issued card and this UT card made of him.
UT Upper Deck 2011, #16UT Upper Deck 2011 Certified, #16
CARD: UT Upper Deck 2011 Certified, UT Upper Deck 2011, UT Upper Deck 2011 National Champions 1969 ACQUIRED: EBay, 2020. TTM 2022, C/o Home SENT: 4/18/22 RECEIVED: 7/14/23 (452 DAYS)
CAREER SNAPSHOT:
Walk on Freshman who played for the Longhorns from 1968-69.
Finished Longhorn career with 13 interceptions.
Had a particular penchant for showing up big in big games.
Against Tennessee in the 1969 Cotton Bowl, Campbell intercepted 2 passes and batted down 4 more.
Tom had the game sealing interception in the ‘Game of the Century’ versus Arkansas in 1969.
Had critical interception in final game of career against Notre Dame, intercepting QB Joe Theismann on the Fighting Irish’s final drive preserving UT’s National Championship.
ACCOLADES:
Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame
NOTES:
I guess they really didn’t have any shots of Tom other than his press photo. While it is a nice shot of him, using it three times smacks of laziness and overkill.
Back in 2014 he was appearing at a card show in Waco but I was unable to attend because I got sick. In the long run I was lucky I didn’t go, as a random hard freeze occurred during that day and would have trapped me up there or made the journey very dangerous.
I thought that I’d written Tom a few times before I reached out to him in 2022. I had initially let this one go as a failure as I hadn’t heard from him in over a year, but lo and behold from right across town, one day these magically showed up.
CARD: University of Texas Upper Deck 2011 ACQUIRED: Ebay, 2020
CAREER SNAPSHOT:
Followed in Earl Campbell‘s footsteps playing RB at the University of Texas.
Best year came in 1979, rushing for 918 yards on 188 carries, scoring 10 TDs.
Ran for a career high 165 yards against Arkansas in 1980.
Finished career at UT logging 645 career carries for 2874 yards and 27 TDs.
Selected in 8th round of 1982 NFL Draft by the Los Angeles Rams.
Dressed for 29 games for the Rams from 1982-1985.
Finally saw some playing time with the Lions in 1985 as a kick returner.
NOTES:
Played alongside a duo of other Jones players. The trio was nicknamed ‘The Ham, Lam and Jam Jones Show’. I had wanted to get him for a while but saw a well priced certified on EBay to knock Jam off my list. Strangely this set is the only one to have any cards of AJ in them. I’m sure he was tickled to finally have one. He’s got a great autograph.
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