Ozzie Newsome

• Sent: 7/1/10
• Received: 7/24/10
• Time: 23 days
• Autographed Items Received: 1985 Topps, 1989 Score

Ozzie Newsome is, quite simply, a football genius. He was legendary as a tight end, and in many ways a forerunner of the ultra-talented tight end that became a staple of NFL teams sometime in the 1980's. Ozzie spent his entire 13 seasons in the Dawg Pound with the Cleveland Browns where he was a 3-time Pro Bowler and a member of the NFL's All-Decade team of the 1980's. He is a member of both the College Football AND the NFL Halls of Fame. In 1996, he began his career as an NFL executive with the Baltimore Ravens and in 2002 he was promoted to General Manager. He's been great in that role and widely considered one of the NFL's top front-office men.

Ozzie has been FANTASTIC to TTM autograph seekers for a whole lot of years. He's a widely-recognized Hall of Famer who is also still actively involved in the NFL and yet he signs and returns all his mail. What a great guy. In all these years of him being so good, I've never gotten his autograph because I just never had any suitable cards of him to get signed. When I bought the 1985 Topps lot, I finally got one and then I picked up the 1989 Score from 5th Quarter because I had a card like that back in the day.