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Uncommon card · History
Tom Osborne, an Uncommon card
Thomas William Osborne is an American former football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and politician from Nebraska.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 61
- Power
- 135
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 160,000
Power 135 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Tom Osborne quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Tom Osborne card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He served as head football coach of the ______ Cornhuskers from 1973 to 1997.
Answer
Nebraska. He served as head football coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers from 1973 to 1997. From the Tom Osborne article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
New Imperialism. New Imperialism 79 · Tom Osborne 74 · Georges Pompidou 70 · Category 5 cable 67 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He served as head football coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers from 1973 to 1997.
- After being inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999, Osborne was elected to Congress in 2000 from Nebraska's third district as a Republican.
- He served three terms, returned to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln as athletic director in 2007, and retired in 2013.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Tom Osborne article was read about 160,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 61: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Tom Osborne
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Tom Osborne (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : US Congress,, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
