Though you’ll never get them to admit it, sports nerds and pop culture nerds have a lot in common. After all, sport fans quantify their obsessiveness by memorizing facts, stats, and dates – the same way movie geeks can rattle off credits and box office numbers, while often pledging undying allegiance to “teams” that are implied rather than explicit (Marvel vs DC, for example).
Cuyler Smith has taken this idea to its logical endpoint, creating a series of pop culture trading cards – highlighting the sporting achievements of film and television characters – for our friends at Gallery1988. His third installment of the series opened Friday; here are a few of our favorites.
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