Musing about my five collecting interests: All things Orioles and BALTIMORE Colts, 50's Baseball, team publications, Japanese cards and even some football and hockey. You might find some beautiful women, soccer stuff, presidential pins and life advice from time to time. I don't charge extra for any of those.
Showing posts with label Andre Ware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andre Ware. Show all posts
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Heisman Day
Some kid, a redshirt freshman from up the road, will probably take home the top individual honor in college football today.
Here is a look at one of my favorite cards featuring college football players. It's a 2007 Press Pass featuring the only University of Houston Heisman winner Andre Ware and current Arizona Cardinal Kevin Kolb.
Both made huge contributions to the Houston program and both had (or in Kolb's case is still having) mixed results in the pros. Ware currently does radio for the Texans and he's very good. Well spoken and not a homer. I listen to a lot of NFL games via Sirius radio. And I've found that coherent unbiased commentary is pretty rare.
Monday, November 5, 2012
Thoughts of better times
Coming off last season's 12-1 season including a bowl win over Penn State and an (at times) national ranking a lot of my fellow Houston alums had visions of another big season in 2012. But I pretty much knew better.
We were going to war with a new unproven coach, new starters at almost all the skill positions and our usual terrible defense. But even given all that I expected better things than what I've seen this year. My Coogs are awful and it's getting worse. The UH faithful (we don't have many) are calling for Coach Levine's mostly bald scalp and it appears our AD's honeymoon is over.
So I thought I'd post a few cards of one of my favorite UH greats, Heisman trophy winning Andre Ware. Ware was the 1989 Heisman winner, the first black quarterback to take home the award. He set dozens of collegiate records while running the Coogs' Run-N-Shoot offense. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2004.
The Lions took Ware in the first round of the 1990 draft but his skills didn't translate to the NFL. After four up and down years with Detroit he played in Canada and with Berlin in NFL Europe.
Andre got into broadcasting after his playing days and has worked college football for ESPN/ABC. He has been the radio color analyst for the Texans since their inception and he is really great at it. Honest and well spoken, he is a great representative for the University of Houston.
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