Tom Landry A Standup Person, Coach, Husband, Father

How I Obtained Tom Landry’s Autograph

As far as autograph collections go, I am always looking to add a piece here and there to my autograph collection. As I have built my family, money seems to be more and more scarce for the things that really I can do without. But the hobby is very absorbing and many times you have to pace yourself as to which direction you will take a collection into. Whether it is based around sports cards, which my collections are. Or if you are a die-hard autograph collector, which I am. Perhaps you dabble in comics and art, something I also do. You see where I needed to tighten my belt buckle and narrow things down a bit?

Anyway today I am going to talk to you about free autographs. Well free to some extent. Take for instance this Tom Landry football autograph that I have previewed in this post and in my photo. It is a Dallas Mini football white panel that I do not even know if they make them anymore. What makes these so special is that they do not consume too much space. They offer a white panel which is ideal for an autograph.

Collect Free Autographs

Getting back to free. There has always been and still is a great deal of information on the web about free autographs and how to obtain. But if this is something you really want to do, just realize this. There is a certain way to go about getting the free autograph. First you will need an item. Now that item should not be something that you cannot easily replace if you lost the item, or if the recipient chose not to return the item to you signed or autographed.

Back when Tom Landry was still alive, he was always a fascinating figure and most certainly as a Dallas Cowboy fan, an autograph I wanted. I came across the address while I was trying to gather information on autographs. I took a shot. Most importantly, I sent something that had no sentimental value to me, and was fairly inexpensive. I remember paying about $7.00 for the white panel mini football. I also invested money in shipping both ways. Tom Landry was older when I sent this and he was sick. I wrote a nice letter to him and wished him a speedy recovery. I tried to make it easy for Mr. Landry, and also enhance my opportunity of getting the autograph returned to me. Both things happened. I received my package fairly quickly, about two weeks, and I also received a letter from Mr. Landry thanking me for the interest in his well-being. Unfortunately Tom Landry died a year later from battling Leukemia, I will never forget the day I received the autograph from him. I have since remained in my autograph collection and I have every intention on passing it along to my kids with a letter from me to them, telling them who he was and what he endured as a football coach for the Dallas Cowboys.