Usually, it’s pretty easily to (ahem) explain what is going on in these cards. For the most part, I do a quick check on Hockey-reference.com to get my stats correct, but that’s about it. I don’t go searching on Google for an actual explanation of what’s going on, because frankly I really don’t want to know; it takes all the fun out of the stupidity that is the Overexposed wing of the Hockey Hall of Shame. But this week… man, it was really hard trying to create an explanation for what is going on here. NOTHING makes any sense in this card!

For the most part, the 1991-92 O-Pee-Chee set doesn’t have a lot of weird-looking cards. The awful airbrushing that O-Pee-Chee was famous for pretty much disappeared after the 1989-90 set, and the days of decapitating players for the purpose of re-purposing their heads onto some other dude’s body had ended way back in the 1970s. But this here card is certainly an exception. Here we have Pittsburgh Penguins legend Mario Lemieux playing a game of “guess that smell” with some strangers’ fingers. Judging by the look on his face, he seems utterly confused. Is it armpit sweat? Crotch rot? Kevin Stevens’ underpants? Look at how hard the Magnificent One is concentrating. I just want to help the guy and put him out of his misery.

The other weird thing about this photo is that these fingers seem rather feminine-looking, yet Mario looks to be sitting on the bench waiting to begin his next shift. Where is this woman standing? On the ice, during a game? After all, her fingers are pointed directly at Mario’s face. Maybe I don’t want to know more about what is really going on here, and just leave it to the imagination.