How’d Ben Get the Ball?
January 27th, 2010 | Published in Funny Poses, Players Who Became Actors | 2 Comments
I ran across this card the other day, a 1969 Topps Ben Davidson, and I thought it was funny that he posed carrying the ball. As far as I knew, he had played only defense. So I looked up his entry at pro-football-reference.com, thinking that maybe he played tight end on occasion. But no, the only positions he ever played were defensive end and defensive tackle.
Maybe he was pretending to run back an interception or a fumble? Unfortunately, he never got a chance in a game: surprisingly, he had no interceptions in his 11-year career, and just two fumble recoveries, neither of which he returned.
Davidson did a lot of acting after his football career, too, appearing in Conan the Barbarian, Necessary Roughness, and a host of primetime TV shows. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a film clip, just a photo of Ben playing Rexor in Conan.
January 27th, 2010 at 6:54 PM (#)
Ben got the bsall by taking it away from a hapless Kansas City Chief after clubing him senseless with his helmet. Jeesh, didn’t you ever watch an AFL game?
November 19th, 2011 at 5:22 PM (#)
A year and a half too late, but I do know the actual answer. I was at a bar in NJ at a time some Raider fans were having some type of convention & he was there. I saw the card and asked the same question. I can’t remember exactly what he said, but the jist was he’d had his appendix out several days before & had missed having his picture taken, so they just threw something together & that was the result.