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Classic Sports Card of The Day

02 Feb

1965 Topps football card of former American Football League defensive back Fred “The Hammer” Williamson, who played 7 seasons for Oakland and Kansas City. Williamson was a notorious self-promoter, and as a Chief, prior to the inaugural Super Bowl, boasted that he would knock both Green Bay starting receivers out of the game with his famous “hammer”, a vicious “clothesline”  forearm  that he used regularly, that would get him fined, suspended and probably banned from today’s game. Ironically, “The Hammer”  himself was knocked out of the game when he caught a knee to the head from Packer back Donny Anderson. After his playing days, Williamson had a successful acting career, specializing in what was called “Blaxploitation” films, and briefly served as an analyst on Monday Night Football.

 

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