Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Remembering Upper Deck MLB, NBA, NFL Cards Part 2: 1996 Spx Football

This is one of my favorite sets of all time. I will also post about the 1997 version as well. But the base cards rock. And a chance at autographs makes this product really top notch. This to me was a high end product in the late 90's due to the fact it came with one card and packs ran around $6.99.

A box broke down into the following. There were 36 packs per box. 1 card per pack. Gold Parallels could be found 1:7 packs. Inserts also were a HoloFame Collection, a Marino Record Breaker and Montana Tribute. The Marino and Montana inserts had autographed versions found 1:433 packs.

Base Card
Autographed Joe Montana, Montana Tribute Version
Gold Base Parallel
Autographed Dan Marino, Record Breaker
The diecut hologram base cards made the set worth collecting. Parallels were fun to chase as well. I wished Upper Deck would dip back into this technology and give it another run!

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