TTM #103 - A Super Success!

Hey guys, Drew back here! Recently, I found some extra time in my schedule to write out a few TTM requests, and the first of those 5 came in on Friday! I sent each of the 5 people an 8x10 photo to sign, which costed a lot to ship, but could yield some great results. To go along with the shipping costs, this success below required a donation, so you can easily see how quickly the costs tend to add up. However, I think we can all agree that $20 + shipping fees was worth the price for this piece:

Bart Starr, the first and second Super Bowl MVP in NFL history, signed this beautiful black and white photo for my collection! I've been meaning to send to Mr. Starr for quite some time now, as this photo was sitting around collecting dust for about half a year! I feel a lot better about it with his large black, bold signature resting upon the tremendous photograph taken by Vernon J. Biever. I never noticed Biever's signature in the bottom left hand corner of the picture, and to be honest I had no idea who he was when I finally noticed it. I did a little research however; and it turns out that Biever worked as the staff photographer for Green Bay, and was even elected to the team's Hall of Fame for his achievements! You can check out a website commemorating his career here, if you're interested in seeing more of his pictures.

Mr. Starr certainly came through clutch with my photo, returning it within a week with a great "To Drew, With Best Wishes, Bart Starr 15, MVP SBI, II" inscription! I asked for the Super Bowl inscription in my letter, and he obliged. It's not every day as a collector that you get to go around showing off a nice new Hall of Fame QB piece in your collection, so this one will be on display around the house for a little while (until my mom gets sick of me laying it all over the place).

Starr played from 1956-1971, all for Green Bay, making one of the longest tenured quarterbacks with 1 team in football history. He made 4 Pro Bowl teams, and was the 1966 League MVP. NFL.com ranked him as the 51st best player to ever take the field.

What do you guys think of the highlight of my football collection? If you haven't gotten Starr yet, $20 is a steal, so I would certainly consider getting him while you can! See Ya!

Congrats to the 2010-11 Green Bay Packers!

Hey guys, Drew back here, and even though I'm a little late to the parade, I felt like I should talk about the Super Bowl. To be brutally honest, the Jets definitely should have been in that game and it really disappoints me, however, what's done is done and I settled down to watch the big Packers vs. Steelers game at my friend's house. You could not have possibly asked for a worse beginning to the game than Christina Aguilera's rendition of the National Anthem. Her incredible voice was fine, but she missed a line (the rampart one)!

As for the actual football part of the game, it was a great game! Aaron Rodgers was spot on throughout the entire game with his passes, and it seemed like nothing could have stopped him, even the injury by star receiver Donald Driver that put him out for the entire second half. His passing totals were 24/39 completions, 304 yards, 3 touchdowns, and 0 interceptions. Without multiple drops by his receivers, he could've pulled off one of the greatest Super Bowl performances of all time! Rodgers joined Bart Starr and Brett Favre to become one of 3 groups of at least 3 quarterbacks on one franchise to win a Super Bowl (Giants, Redskins).

After years of waiting and waiting, he finally got to lead his team to the Super Bowl, and the entire Packers squad played a tremendous game! Roethlisberger couldn't complete a pass when it mattered most, and was the final piece that ended the Steelers season.

But you can't talk about the Super Bowl without mentioning the commercials. They were much better than they have been in the last few years in my opinion, and I laughed at quite a few of them. The Doritos ones always crack me up, and the Pepsi Max ones were good too, but this was my favorite:

Eminem got into 2 commercials, 1 being more serious (Chrysler) but the best was certainly the Brisk one.

Oh, and other than the cool display, the Black Eyed Peas.. sucked.

Congrats Green Bay! See Ya!