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Hut ad Infinitum

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  1. It's Johnny Johnson's world. We're just fortunate enough to live in it.
  2. That's a good one. I love the old school bruisers. Maybe Bronko Nagurski too. Here's Thorpe to get the ball rolling.
  3. 2016 marks the 25th anniversary of TSB. I want to mark the occasion by making a set of Tecmo cards including players throughout the history of the league - stars from the early years of the NFL, the TSB era, and today's stars. I think it would also be fun to include special cards that commemorate famous moments and plays in NFL history. That could be career milestones, broken records and famous plays. I would really appreciate input from everybody about what players and moments you think are card-worthy. I'm going to start with the great Jim Thorpe and go from there. This will be an ongoing project, which I plan to have done at some point in 2016. When it's done, I will post the files here for anyone who would like to print them. They look pretty nice on card stock. Any input is really appreciated.
  4. Autographs have become a business, and atheletes have become celebrities. I think the card industry has sucked a lot of the innocence or purity out of things. The gap between athlete and fan has widened. But I guess that means that when you actually do get something back, it's that much more special. Also, I aimed this first set of cards pretty darn high. All of them were stars. Next time I'm going to aim more towards the every day players. And you never know, that might be a star of the future. I got Favre's in '92, never knowing that he'd end up being who he became.
  5. Well, I got my RG3 card back a few days ago - unsigned. It also included a form letter inviting me to join his fanclub. I know he's busy updating his résumé, removing Subway from his references, etc, but you'd think a waning QB might take the time. As it stands, Janikowski and Megatron are stars, and RG3 and Andrew Luck are bums. #sourgrapes
  6. Thank you, I hope so too. I did get his in the early 2000s, so if I don't this time it's not a big deal. I sent it to the Falcons around the time of his retirement, so I don't know if it ever got to him. Same problem with Ray Lewis. I grew up here in KC, but I ended up living in Tony's hometown of Huntington Beach for 7 years, and I used to drive by his high school all the time. (I still miss Del Taco!)
  7. No new autographs, but I felt like making an old school wax pack for the cards and thought this would be the place to put it.
  8. Sending them out is easy. All I do is write a nice short letter to the player, include a card and a self addressed stamped envelope, and mail it to the team address. From there, it probably goes into a heap of hundreds of other fan letters, so it could be many months before you get it back (if you do get it back). Johnson's was sent out over 10 months ago. But the bigger the star, the longer the wait. If you're a fan of offensive linemen, punters or backup QBs, you might get it back in a few weeks. I recommend using Forever Stamps for the SASEs, because they stay valid regardless of whether they raise the price of stamps. A couple of cards took so long to come back that the player had to add a 1 cent stamp to send it back to me. I got a Tommy Maddox card back 3 years after I'd sent it! The cost is minimal. Once I've designed them, I just take them to Office Max on a flash drive and get six of them printed on a single piece of card stock for about a dollar. If you're wanting to mail them, I suggest card stock, because it's sturdy and less likely to get damaged in the mail. It also looks more like a real football card.
  9. I had some more success today. I was starting to wonder if I'd get any more of these back. But I did, and it was from Megatron. Also included was an ad for his charity, the Calvin Johson Jr. Foundation. Here's a link to it: http://calvinjohnsonjrfoundation.org/
  10. I've had a lot of luck getting cards back signed, and I actually did get one back from Tom Brady. You always wonder when you get one back from a superstar if it was autopenned or signed by an assistant. Autopen at least is easy to spot. I like to think Brady signed it. Back in the 90's, I probably got about 80% of them back signed. It was probably a mistake sending these out a couple of weeks before last season ended. The Janikowski card was originally sent to Oakland, naturally, but was returned from Florida. If you're in to graphic design, you should try designing some of your own. Mine are primarily made in MS Paint, and then graded and textured in Photoshop to give them a slightly weathered look. Then I just got them printed on card stock for a couple of dollars.
  11. It was the documentary that first gave me the idea. I did send one to Rivers as well. He and Tony seemed like the most likely to sign them.
  12. I sent them out to Jamaal Charles, Christian Okoye, Bo Jackson, Megatron, Ray Lewis, Clay Matthews and Tony Gonzalez. I had luck with Tony in the past; I just hope he took his fan mail with him to California. The one I sent to Andrew Luck got sent back unsigned, so, yeah, he can go jump in a lake.
  13. Awhile back I made a handful of TSB football cards and sent them out to players to see if I could get some of them signed. I recently got one back and I thought I'd share. It went against every instinct I have as a Chiefs fan to send a card to a Raider, but Janikowski is one of the best to ever play the game.
  14. My brain ran out of juice after 18 teams. But that's enough to fill out a league. Here's how it stands right now. It looks like I'm going to need to shorten some team names for the rom to display properly AFC East Islamic Jihazards Jewish Torah Terrors Hindu Divine Bovines AFC Central Egpytian Pharaos Greek Fighting Falafels Roman Seizers AFC West Christian Rapture (was Power and Glory, but that was too long) Scientific Beaker Breakers Satanic Hellfire NFC East Buddhist Enlight'ning (Enlightenment/Lightning, ya know) Oriental Angry Ancestors Aboriginal Whompbats NFC Central Native American Palefaces Voodoo Curse Philosophical Eagles NFC West Pagan Beasts Aztec Serpentine Norse Way Norsemen (say it in a Swedish Chef voice. It's fun) Again, I'm still checking them out to see if all the names are within the parameters that the game allows. I'm just relieved that the Philosophical Eagles are good to go. Next comes the fun part: Filling out the rosters! Heaven help me once I try to find umpteen Native American spirits to fill the roster of the Palefaces.
  15. They're bloody beer bottles playing football, without limbs. There are presumably only two teams in the league, making the preseason, regular season, playoffs and championship somewhat predictable. All of this, and the only gripe is that it's retro? Well anyway, I'm working on Tecmo Holy War. Yes, honestly. The Christian team is easy to fill out the roster for: Jehova, JC, the apostles, a few saints. The Jewish defensive is going to be stingy to say the least. Expect Islam's offense to be explosive. Roman mythology will be strong in the backfield. Not sure what to do with the Egyptians yet - but I've got a good logo, so I'm going with it. Sound stupid? Maybe it is, but it's so much less mind numbing than researching the offensive lines of the 1983 NFC central. And if anyone can think of a good name for a Confusism team, don't hesitate to pipe up. Oh, and no offense meant to any religion, beliefs, etc. You're all groovy, baby.
  16. I just had a vision of beer bottles running down the Tecmo field. My meds are apparently useless. Any thoughts on a Tecmo Super Bud Bowl graphic hack? Touchdown Dan Beerdorf!
  17. Is there a link to the scanned TSB manual out there anywhere? I bought mine secondhand, blah blah blah, and haven't actually seen the sacred Tecmo texts since I rented it in the early 90s.
  18. I seem to recall years back, when I actually played TSB on a cartridge, that I recovered my own onsides kick with a defensive player who got injured on the play. It took me to the defense's roster, but I couldn't do anything, since those players can't be subbed. Now is this actually possible? Happened to anyone? I seem to remember it happening, and it's such an elaborate memory that if I'm wrong, I must have eaten some lead paint.
  19. I'm nearing the end of a season where I'm applying that philosophy to Joe "Hell on Wheels" Montana. Only I'm shooting for 1000 yards on the ground and 3000 through the air. I'll post a screen shot of his stats as soon as this season wraps.
  20. Pretty sure Okoye is still among the living. Are you thinking of Derrick Thomas?
  21. Does anyone come close to Christian Okoye in terms of crimes against a defensive line? When he's in pique condition, I aim him at the linebackers and the secondary just to knock them into the cheap seats. If you end up getting him in a breakaway run to the endzone, try stopping just before you score, let the defense catch up to you, and knock the sense out of 4 or 5 of them. On a personal note, I brushed shoulders (literally) with Okoye at a sports show in KC a few years back. He's 12 feet tall, made of an alloy far greater than steel, and wears the bronzed torso of Bob Golic on a chain around his neck.
  22. I believe the Chiefs have drafted some members of the Pacificist Quadrapalegic Association (PQA). Should be an improvement.
  23. This 15 year vet of TSB finally found out that it has a worldwide following, with hundreds of people editing roms just like I've always wanted to. Nothing else important to say. Just wanted to introduce myself, say how great this site is, and remind all those rom hackers that the 2005 Chiefs are the team to beat!
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