{"id":983691,"date":"2022-02-09T23:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T23:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/09\/nfl-fan-gets-his-card-back-from-warrick-dunn-21-years-later\/"},"modified":"2022-02-09T23:00:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T23:00:47","slug":"nfl-fan-gets-his-card-back-from-warrick-dunn-21-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/09\/nfl-fan-gets-his-card-back-from-warrick-dunn-21-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL fan gets his card back from Warrick Dunn 21 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/NFL-fan-gets-his-card-back-from-Warrick-Dunn-21-years-later.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 9 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A New Jersey man who mailed NFL running back Warrick Dunn a trading card to sign finally received a response from the now-former player 21 years later.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Emanuele said in a video posted to Twitter that he collected NFL trading cards when he was a child, and he would frequently mail cards to players with a request that the card be returned with an autograph.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Emanuele said he was shocked to receive an envelope in the mail recently from Warrick Dunn, who played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Atlanta Falcons during his 1997-2008 NFL career.<\/p>\n<p>The envelope contained the 2001 Upper Deck trading card Emanuele had mailed Dunn 21 years earlier, along with a note.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you for your unwavering support of my football career. My apologies if this response has not reached you in a timely manner. It&#8217;s a great pleasure to autograph the enclosed memorabilia,&#8221; Dunn wrote.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-block embed-object\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Hey @WarrickDunn, thanks for the awesome and unexpected surprise. When I was young I collected football cards from players all around the NFL, and as a hobby mailed them out to the teams to see what players would sign and send it back. That was 21 years ago&#8230;#dundidit pic.twitter.com\/ZREYDoF1gP\u2014 EROCK (@EROCK_Eagles) February 8, 2022<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 9 (UPI) &#8212; A New Jersey man who mailed NFL running back Warrick Dunn a trading card to sign finally received a response from the now-former player 21 years later. Eric Emanuele said in a video posted to Twitter that he collected NFL trading cards when he was a child, and he would frequently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":983692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}