COMC football dump

                                          
It's been awfully cold again down here in the land of Sleeves this past week. One would think that being stuck inside because of the cold would be conducive to "writing" blog posts, and it may be for some, but not me. I get restless when I'm stuck inside, and restlessness is the enemy of sitting down and doing anything, hence no posts this week.

I've also been in a bit of a funk again, probably brought on by the cold, but nobody came here to hear about that, so in more positive news, I received two orders from Sportlots this week, and saints be praised, the cards in both orders came in the condition they were described (a rarity for me!). I was so pleased with both orders, that I even went ahead and placed another larger one a couple of nights ago. I also sold a semi-rare DVD within just a few hours of listing it on eBay two days ago, which was extremely nice, if only because the proceeds will pay for my three Sportlots orders, and leave enough to cover the shipping for a couple of bubble mailers that I need to send out. Oh, and a somewhat hard to find Cliff Robinson (from his playing day) popped up on COMC (first one to ever to do so) yesterday, and I scooped it up within hours of it doing so! Now that I'm typing all of this out loud, I guess it wasn't that bad of a week after all, it just seems like it was.

Anyway, I don't know if ya'll have heard or not, but the BiG gAmE is tomorrow, and as per usual, it means very little to me. I have no plans to sit and waste an entire afternoon (especially one that is supposed to be slightly warmer) watching a football game (or any other modern sporting event), and because of political or social justice reasons, I just have other things that I want to do, active moving around things. I will however honor the occasion by doing a football card related post though, but since it's going to be nice outside today too, I'm not gonna waste a lot of time working on it this morning, so I'm gonna go ahead and use this Saturday, when presumably no one will be reading the blogs, to dump my misc. football scan folder; all of which came from my 2019 COMC shipment, yeah, 2019!

I had quite a bit of football in that 2019 shipment, which I broke down into four categories, vintage, 90's, color matching, and misc. The vintage portion made it onto the blog a long time ago (you could probably look for it if you really cared), but I've been extremely slow to cover the other three. The 90's and color matching folders haven't been edited yet, so that only leaves the miscellaneous stuff, which by the way is most certainly the least interesting of the bunch, and looking at them now, I wouldn't have even bothered to show them had I not spent the time scanning, but I did, and I don't want it to be for naught, so...

It seems like years ago now, and I guess technically it was, but geez was I all in on the 2018 Classics set, or more specifically, the parallels. I suppose I'm still big on it, I just haven't gotten any more since this shipment, and don't even recall when I last looked for any was.

Bo Jackson's modern cards don't do a whole lot for me, and looking at it now, I don't think I would've gotten this insert if I had it to do over again. It is die-cut, which is usually fun, but the die-cuttiness on this one is kinda lame.

Before finally becoming more focused on what I'm collecting last year, I had a tendency to fall in and out of love with things, and while I was in with them, I would often go a bit overboard in my attempt to acquire them. I had a brief infatuation with the 2015 Topps Tek purple parallels, and got a few in a very short period (probably over one evening).

Given how cheap they were, well, all except for Tommy here, I don't have any regrets in buying them, but I don't think that I'll be buying too many more (unless I come across some more cheap Barry Sanders', as I kind of want to get a full page of those). I've seen a lot of talk in recent months about acetate cards from the 90's starting to get gross (yellow), and even though none of mine have ever done that, I've still begun to hesitate some when it comes to purchasing any more, just in case. I don't know if modern acetate cards are made any differently, but I'm not looking add to many more of them to the collection either, just in case.

With there being hundreds of parallels in every single set these days, I'm not even bothering for the most part to try and remember and/or learn what is what anymore, I just go by aesthetics. If it looks good, and it's cheap, I'll get it; which is what I did with this nifty Earl Campbell! I know that it comes from the 2018 Black Friday set, but other than that, I just know it as the "199" parallel. 

I don't collect Eli Manning in the least, but I had a blue and a green version of this card, so apparently I had to get a red as well. Make sense?

I had the blue and green versions of this card too, so of course a red was necessary, right? The only difference this time is that while I don't actively collect Gronk, I do set his cards aside when I come across them. 

This one is so-so, but I do have the purple version currently sitting in my COMC account, and that my friends is quite spectacular.

Eric Dickerson is one of those retired guys that seems to have a lot of modern cards, way too many to collect all of, so I just stick to the scraps. Tired of 2015 Prizm yet? I can't hear you of course, but if you answered, yes, well, good news; this was the last of them. 

Staying with Prizm, but going back a year, we've got a couple more ED's. I don't have my cards of his cataloged yet, but I've gotta have at least 6 or 7 of parallels now, and probably duplicates of a few as well.

There are a couple of cards in this post that I wouldn't bought today, but this final 2014 Prizm offering isn't one of them, even after a couple of years I still really dig this card, and wouldn't mind getting a few more copies.

So there it is, definitely not one of my better posts (I did warn you in advance though), but they can't all be sunshine and lollipops. I can however promise that next week's two will be much better, I've got a baseball post planned (but not written) for Tuesday, and McKay's recap for Thursday, so in other words, one for you, and one for me :)

COMC Shuffle #8

It's hard to believe that this week's Shuffle post marks two months of doing these already, time flies...


2018 Panini Classics Timeless Tributes blue #102

As far as modern cards go, this one is pretty darn close to perfection in my book.


2013 Panini Golden Age Playing Cards #8H

This set is taking far longer to complete than I would've imagined. At least I'm still enjoying it though, unlike a lot of other things.


2013 Panini Golden Age Historic Signatures #BL

The thought of abandoning my quest to complete the three years worth of Golden Age autographs has recently popped up. I'm not sure if I'm ready to commit to it, but if I did, I'd probably keep a few, and sell the rest -- Fred MacMurray's adopted "son" wouldn't likely be one of the keepers.


1998-99 Topps Stadium Club Triumvirate - Luminous #T16a

It's still hard to believe that the Dallas Mavericks took Tractor in the first round of the 1998 draft, then promptly traded him to Milwaukee for a skinny German kid who would one day become a hall of famer (Dirk Nowitzki).


1962 Topps #99

I can't remember exactly when it was, but sometime early last year I bought a cheap port - in case anyone doesn't know, you can buy ports on COMC, which are either all, or just part of, someone's inventory - it wasn't very big, maybe 60 something cards for $28 (in credit). I ended up keeping a few cards, Boog's rookie being one of them, and then put the rest up for sale (which is the point of buying a port). I still have a few cards that haven't sold, but so far, I've made around $20 profit, which isn't too bad considering that it wasn't the greatest of ports (hence the price).


2012 Panini Black Friday Kings Progressions - Magenta #1

I don't have a most wanted list of any kind, but if I did, the black Progressions Jim Brown from this set would be #1 on that list, as it would complete my rainbow. I have much to say about this card, but I will be talking about it in a post that's currently halfway finished, so I'll just wait until then to do so.


1933 Goudey #68

Hod Lisenbee led an extremely interesting life, on and off the diamond. I give the SABR people crap sometimes, but this is an instance where praise is owed to them, as they have a wonderful article about Horace up on their site. If reading about a former major leaguer who didn't play baseball until he got to high school, at the age of 21 no less, sounds interesting, click on that link. If reading about a former pitcher who went 5-1 against the Yankees Murderer's Row during his rookie season (1927) sounds interesting, then click on that link. If reading about a former player who was still pitching into his 50's sounds interesting, well... you know what to do!

For you back addicts :)


1969-70 Topps #53

I keep going back and forth as to whether or not I still want to try and complete this set, I think I'm over halfway done with it, but my heart (and wallet) just isn't really into it anymore.

2014 Panini Prizm Red, White, and Blue Prizms #53

In case you can't tell, I'm kind of fond of this particular card! Although I'm gonna have to keep an eye on that Frank in the bottom left corner, he could be trouble.


1998-99 Skybox Thunder Lift Off #2LO

I bought a lot of Skybox Premium back in '98, but never bought any Thunder, there was only enough money for me to choose one, and I made my choice. In fact, until just a couple of years I had never even owned a card from the '98-99 Thunder set. Since moving to TN though, I have found a number of inserts in dime boxes, but one that I had yet to find (or even see for that matter), was any of the Lift Off's, so when I came across this Ray Allen a while back for just a little under $2, I had to have it. I can't overstate enough how great these look in person, and to me, they really do seem like something that should go for quite a bit more money.

The shuffler came up with a pretty good mix this week, certainly more variety than last week, which is always a good thing... at least for me (and hopefully for you as well).



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These colors don't run

Today's post is going to be a perfect example of three things when it comes to me and my collecting habits: a) I'll apparently buy just about anything at a card show if the price is right, even though I'd be much better off just saving my money. b) My recent interest in collecting duplicates of things has really taken hold. c) Try as I might, I just can't do "best of" posts, especially when it comes to card show spoils.

As far as the "best of" posts go, I tried to do a few for the last couple of card show recaps, but I'm just not feelin' those, so it's back to anything and everything for me (unless it doesn't photograph or scan well, then it's out), my apologies to everyone who told me, because I asked, that they prefer the "best of" approach when it comes to show recaps.

If you saw my last post, you might recall that I mentioned that because I arrived so early to the show back in November, there weren't too many dealers set up yet, so I didn't have a lot of options right off the bat. Thankfully there was a guy who I hadn't seen before, who just so happened to have a pretty impressive spread, most of which was of the football variety - in fact, he had so much, that you'll see spread across two posts.

The first thing that caught my eye was a box of Prizm parallels, mostly from 2014, oh, and by the by, this is probably a good time to mention that all of this post is going to be Prizm football parallels, with the red, white, and blue's being the dominant color (hence the title).

Anyway, the stuff in the box wasn't priced, and when I asked about them, the guy gave me the old "just pick out what you want and we'll work on a price", which is normally a big no no for me, but again, I didn't have a lot of other options yet, so I took a chance.

There will be a few non-RWB's below, but the bulk of this shoe box was those, I started taking so many out that I had to remind myself that I was interested in working on the set, and to just try and focus on the guy's (duplicates and all) that I actually wanted.

Noticing the duplication yet?

Even though both Panini and Topps have used this Frank Gifford photo on more than enough cards, I still really like it, especially in this format.

Lance Alworth rainbow alert! I can't help but wonder if anybody else would have bought these that day if I hadn't, I sort of suspect that the answer is no, but that's okay, I don't mind buying stuff that nobody else wants... I do it all the time.

 

All of these guys were chosen because I either didn't have any cards of them, or because I only had 1 or 2 cards of them, but wanted more.

Retired star power.

Mostly still playing star power.

These were for the newly started Eric Dickerson collection.

These were my two favorite Prizm pick ups, purple prizmed Vikings just look so damn cool! It's funny too that their the same purple backgrounds, yet when scanned next to each other they came out as two different shades (the actual color is closer to Fran's background).

As mentioned, I found a few non-2014's that were of interest too, including this pair of blue 2013's. Quizz is probably my favorite Beaver of all-time, he was just so fun to watch, it's just too bad he wasn't able to do more in the NFL.

And finally, rounding out the post with a nifty 2015 blue Gronk, and a much less attractive 2016 green Steve Young. I really don't like the 2016 Prizm set, but it's hard for me to turn away a cheap Steve Young parallel.

When it came time to figure out a price for all of these, I was quoted a semi-decent, but not great, price - which was countered by me, and accepted after a few seconds of thought by the dealer. I think the only reason that he did accept it was because I was purchasing so much other stuff from his ten, and 25 cent boxes, some of which was shown in the last post, and the rest of the non-Prizm football will be seen in the next card show post.


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