Card Collecting 14: Favorite Football Cards

This is another post suggested by Tim, from Cardpocalypse.  Favorite football cards in my collection:

     

    

Two members of the Holy Trinity.  Page's rookie card.  A 1964 Retzlaff - the oldest card I own of a notable player. 

         

Autographed post-retirement cards of Hall of Famers.

I also own an autographed Miles Sanders SN10 and an Emmitt Smith swatch card SN5, but they're Panini Black Friday so the pictures aren't up on TCDB.   

Card Collecting 13: Incoming

So I traded with Chris (challgolfman on TCDB) and got this trio:

 

     

An Ainge for the multi-sport athlete collection I am NOT building.  Two Super Bowl MVPs for a collection I am building, though don't expect to finish for a long while.

I also received another batch of Free Friday cards from Brian of Highly Subjective and Completely Arbitrary:

   

Vlad the Impaler needs no introduction.  I like me some defense.

   

Two of the best players in the 1970s.

    

A guy with a lengthy career and an interesting story.  A 12-time All-Star.

   



A couple current era stars and a fun card of a prominent Eagle.

So yeah - Brian hooked me up nicely.  I sent him some cards but I don't know if he'll want them or not. Maybe he can trade them or use them for a future Free Friday. 

Card Collecting 12: Waiting for a Starr to Fall

into my arms, baby, yeah.

So Tim, from Cardpocalypse, suggested a few ideas for blog posts.  One of them is favorite card acquired during quarantine.

Not only did I trade for this gem, but I got it from somebody who lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin.  I have now completed 2 / 3 of the Holy Trinity. 



The wait is over, yet the music remains.

Link to Cardpocalypse:

https://lovecardboard.blogspot.com

Card Collecting 11: Repack Adventures

So I made another trip to Walgreen's and they only had one football repack so I bought it along with two baseball repacks.

    

   

   

I already had the Montana, but he's a Hall of Famer so I don't mind another one.  Kelly's another Hall of Fame QB.  The Hernandez rookie and the AB action shot in a throwback uni would fit nicely in a bad boy collection if I had one.  A couple Heisman Trophy winners on the bottom.

The pack in both was 2020 Leaf Draft.  My haul included a Tee Higgins All American gold parallel and a J.K. Dobbins Touchdown Kings, but the fronts aren't up yet on TCDB.

Others:  Cortez Kennedy, Steve Smith, Derrick Thomas, Thurman Thomas, etc.

   

   

    

   

   

   

The first of the two baseball boxes was overloaded with 1980s Brewers. Like obsessively so, but no Yount or Molitor, which was kind of annoying.  There were three Cecil Coopers, a Gorman Thomas, a Jim Gantner, a Rollie Fingers, a Ben Oglivie, and some random guys.  I don't know how that Dolphins RB got into a baseball box.  Carlton Fisk and Robin Ventura in throwback unis.  A goofy Fred Lynn card from Woolworth department store.  One of the best names in the history of baseball.  The pack in each box was 2019 Topps Opening Day.  Closing out the viewing with 1981 Topps and Steve Howe's rookie card.

Others: Mo Vaughn, Frank Viola, Ryan Braun, Jeff Bagwell, Andy Van Slyke, etc.
 




 

Card Collecting 10: Goal Completed

I mentioned my Special Special Teamers set in an earlier post.  Well, I have acquired a Stephen Gostkowski card and the set is now complete.

Every special teams player that was named to one of the following NFL all-star teams:

100th Anniversary Team
75th Anniversary Team
1970s All-Decade Team
1980s All-Decade Team
1990s All-Decade Team
2000s All-Decade team
2010s All-Decade Team

I'll just post some highlights here, and if you want to view my entire list you can follow the TCDB link below.

   

    

 

     


   

It's a 32-player list, plus three players who were notable in other ways. Fred Cox is one of the latter group.

https://www.tradingcarddb.com/List.cfm/lid/8358/Special-Special-Teamers

Card Collecting 9: Big Trade

So I traded with Leo (LO212257 on TCDB).  Sent him 45 cards (plus a few extras) and received 22 better cards.  Let's look at a few.

    

I'm usually hesitant to trade for junk era baseball, because I still have several boxes of uncatalogued cards at my mother's house.  But I can make an exception for Schmidt. 

    

The T from Run TMC. 

   

    

It's possible that I like the All-Pro cards.  Ha. 

    

    

The Brown takes slot #79 in my Club 100 frankenset.  Bo and Deion - the best multi-sport stars of the era.  I had to dump a few of my Megatron cards because the opposing team was the Eagles. So it's nice to add this Topps Valor.

    

I believe Gostkowski completes my Special Special Teamers set. I just have to double check.  I like the action shot in the first one, but it's a ho card.  So I made sure to get the second one as a fall-back option.

The Other Eight: 
1987 Topps:  Ron Brown.  More multi-sport goodness. Got his autograph at a track meet back in the day.
1990 Fleer:  Deion Sanders, Clyde Simmons, and Jerry Rice.
1990 Score:  John Elway and Rod Woodson All-Pro. 
2015 Topps Valor:  Mike Evans and Demaryius Thomas.  I prefer the 2014 design, but I got three good WRs in this trade so not complaining.

Thanks for reading.