1996 Zenith along Ex and the Spx's of the 90's were king to me. Nothing topped those. I know I mention often how much I love this set or that set, but deep down, those three can't be touched.
One product in the 90's I never got to open for football was 1995 Zenith. I opened TONS AND TONS of 1996, but never once laid sight on 1995.
In my latest box break from Shane over at Project Pedro Blog, I finally got the opportunity to open some even in box form for the first time.
In every box of 1995 Zenith football, there were 24 packs of 6 cards. There was a shot at three different inserts in every box, most notably, Z-Team.
There are 150 base cards in the base set, designed like the yellow brick road I would say, including veterans and
"rookies". For some reason or another, Zenith didn't do real rookies. They made it like baseball and called rookies, "rookies" from the year before like this Willie. In the three year run of the 90's, it never once put a true rookie card in it's product.
Like I said earlier, there are three chase inserts in the product.
Second Season which I didn't recognize at first. I assumed it was apart of the base set until I saw the numbers on the back. These fall 1:6 packs.
Give me some dufex baby! These Rookie Roll Call fell 1:72 packs and are beautiful both front
and back. I am chasing this set as well and you can also see that not more than 1200 sets were produced.
And finally the moment you have been waiting for....Z Team John Elway. Wowza!! These fall 1:24 packs or one per box. Much different than the 1:3 boxes the 1996 ones fall.
Just like with the 1996 version, I plan on chasing down the 1995 one as well. Cards look amazing.
How does this one live up to 1996? Well, it falls flat with the one insert and the base cards. 1996 base cards put these ones to shame. The Z-Teams look better in 1996 as well, but love me some dufex so this one is solid. Hard to beat a perfected product like the 1996 version.
I am working on so much from the Zenith 1996 product still and this one as well including the dufex inserts, Z-Teams, and base ones.
What are your guys thoughts on Zenith? Have a favorite year of it?
We have 19 packs of 1996 pinnacle series 2 zenith edition football cards and 15 packs of 1995 pinnacle series 2 football zenith edition cards. Just wondering if they are worth much.
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