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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.

No Google, huh? I say Carl Kidd.

Barrin Simpson?

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

Yes, no-brainer. Kidd played at Arkansas, wore number 26, joined the Lions in 2000,.

Carl Kidd hands down.

Funny the card never mentioned that time at the end of the 2002 WSF when he laid a beatdown on that drunken Wpg fan.

I saw the number and the first sentence or two. Carl Kidd.... Didn't read more than that.

man, you guys are all either very smart, or very squishy

#26 Carl Kidd who sent the Lions an RB. Who was that RB?

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.

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.


DH

Carl Kidd it is! One of my all-time favourite Lions.