Four NFL teams have retired #12. Three of them honored franchise legends. One retired it for their fans.*
The Buffalo Bills retired the number to honor Jim Kelly, but have also honored the fans as well.
If you're a fan of football, you've probably heard the Seattle Seahawks fans referred to the 12s at some point. It stems from the 12th man, which according to Wikipedia originated at Texas A&M in 1922.
In their franchise history, there has only been one player to wear #12. I wasn't familiar with him until a few weeks ago when I decided to research the history of the 12s. The name Sam Adkins popped up on Football Reference:
The seller had it up for auction, but I was busy doing something when it ended so I missed out on it. The auction didn't receive any bids and the seller listed it again with a best offer option. They accepted my $2.50 (+ $1.48 tax & shipping) offer and the rest is history.
I have no idea whether or not this autograph is legit, but I can't imagine a lot of people are going around forging his signature. That being said, whoever originally owned this signed index card wrote some notes on the back.
Don't worry baseball fans. I don't anticipate any more football posts in the near future. Just wanted to share this not-so-random signature of a guy most of you probably aren't familiar with the day after the 12s got a chance to celebrate the second Super Bowl win in franchise history.
Go Hawks!
Happy Monday and sayonara!
Overtime
By the way, here are two new card blogs to add to your blogrolls:
The first one is Tom's return to the keyboard. He'll be showing off his Angels and Patriots PC.
#2: Divas Hockey Ink
The second one is for hockey and Olympic fans.
I'm super excited to see Tom back in the mix and happy to welcome RR to the blogosphere.
2 comments:
Congrats on your team winning!
Congrats in the Seahawks W! That's a cool little autograph you were able to get
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