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Hi folks,
Brand new to the forum, though I'm a longtime lurker. Thought you guys might have some fun playing a little game I've been rolling with on Twitter (@CFLfootballcards).
Without Google or any other resource other than your razor-sharp memories, can you tell who this is?
Winner gets... internet kudos accompanied by unimaginable fame and, well, certainly not fortune.
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Carl Kidd for sure. I tried to read just half of the back of the card but needed to read all of it before figuring out Carl Kidd, #26. I thought he went to Arkansas Pine-Bluff though from what I recall, not University of Arkansas?
Funny the card never mentioned that time at the end of the 2002 WSF when he laid a beatdown on that drunken Wpg fan.
Sports can be a peculiar thing. When partaking in fiction, like a book or movie, we adopt a "Willing Suspension of Disbelief" for enjoyment's sake. There's a similar force at work in sports: "Willing Suspension of Rationality". If you doubt this, listen to any conversation between rival team fans. You even see it among fans of the same team. Fans argue over who's the better QB or goalie, and selectively cite stats that support their views while ignoring those that don't.
David wrote:Carl Kidd for sure. I tried to read just half of the back of the card but needed to read all of it before figuring out Carl Kidd, #26. I thought he went to Arkansas Pine-Bluff though from what I recall, not University of Arkansas?
DH
Both interpretations could be correct. UofAR has a multi-campus system similar to UofCalif (Davis, Irvine, LA, Santa Cruz, San Diego, etc), with one of the campuses in Pine Bluff. So perhaps he attended that one.
Sports can be a peculiar thing. When partaking in fiction, like a book or movie, we adopt a "Willing Suspension of Disbelief" for enjoyment's sake. There's a similar force at work in sports: "Willing Suspension of Rationality". If you doubt this, listen to any conversation between rival team fans. You even see it among fans of the same team. Fans argue over who's the better QB or goalie, and selectively cite stats that support their views while ignoring those that don't.
Kidd was born and attended high school in Pine Bluff, which is in the Little Rock area, but he played for the real University of Arkansas Razorbacks in Fayetteville, the school that plays in the SEC West and won its only national championship in the 1964-65 season as a member of the old Southwest Conference. I fell in love with that undersized team, which included future football legends Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson, who were both linemen. I've been waiting 50 years for the Razorbacks to win another national championship. You probably won't find all of that information on a football card.
You're right. I think I was mixing up Arkansas and Arkansas Pine-Bluff, which is where Carl Kidd went on to coach. He recommended Martell Mallett to the Lions.
