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Classic Sports Card of The Day

24 Nov

An appropriate sports card to feature on Thanksgiving Day is this 1972 Topps football card of former NFL defensive lineman Joe “Turkey” Jones, who played 11 seasons in the league, mostly for the Cleveland Browns. Jones got his nickname when the team played its’ annual Thanksgiving joke on rookie players, sending them on drives to distant rural farms for phantom “free turkeys” which, of course, didn’t exist. Jones never caught on, and not only continued searching for hours for his “free turkey”, but also fell for the prank again in his second year with the team, along with that year’s rookie class. Jones immortalized himself in Cleveland sports history when he sacked Steeler QB Terry Bradshaw in a game, picking up Bradshaw after the whistle (which he claimed he didn’t hear) and depositing him directly on his head into the turf.

 

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