Alright, I asked the question of whether I could stomach a Brett Favre Card of the Week earlier this week, and here’s the answer:
Nope.
Now, keep in mind, it isn’t because I don’t respect what he did as a player (even though that involved beating up on my favorite team quite a bit). But 1) I’ve already grown tired of the media coverage of the retirement, and 2) if I went Tommy Hodson over Tom Brady during Super Bowl week, why should I give it to Favre just because he’s retiring with virtually every significant QB record?
So, for this week, in honor of Favre’s retirement, and since I just happened to pull it out of a tin on Wednesday night, I present the 1989 Topps Don Majkowski.
Majkowski, or The Majik Man, has a little bit of Wally Pipp in him–after tearing a ligament in his ankle against the Bengals on September 20, 1992, he was replaced by Favre. Who went on to start every Packers game after that from ’92-2007, until his retirement (if it holds).
Majkowski left Green Bay after the season, serving as the backup in Indianapolis for two seasons and Detroit for two seasons before retiring.
Despite playing in only 68 games for the Pack, starting 49, in which he completed 55.3% of his passes, threw 66 touchdowns and 67 interceptions and had a QB Rating of 73.5, he was inducted into the Packer Hall of Fame in 2005.
Somehow, despite starting 5 games in 1987 for the Packers, the 1989 Topps card is listed as one of his rookie cards, along with the Pro Set and Score issues from that year. The Topps card books for $0.10, the cheapest of his rookies (Pro Set books at $0.15, and Score at a whopping $0.50).
And, as I mentioned, I got the card in a tin from my local retail giant just this past week. And to answer a question I posed in the update to that thread, the answer was “Not very long”–I actually went back that night and grabbed the last tin they had, to see if I could repeat the luck with the ’98 Collector’s Edge First Place Triple Thread set–and I didn’t. The second tin did, however, have a decent cache of…you guessed it–Brett Favre cards.
I like Majkowski so I will grant you a pass on this selection over a Favre.
Game 3 1989 Majik leads Pack back from 34-7 halftime deficit,only to have Fullwood fumble ball into end zone at LA Rams leading to 41-38 loss.That game, coupled with Packs inability to do anything against Cheifs in Green Bay late in season cost shot at playoffs in what truly was magic season. Cheap shot out of bounds at Arizona in 1990 led to shoulder injury just whne Majik and the Pack were Getting hot ended his season andled to 5 straight losses.Played great for Lions in losing mopup job against Eagles.Decent backup for Colts to end career of What ifs. Tom in Chicago