Random Card:1992 Upper Deck Bloodlines Ken Griffey Jr

Throwpack Thursday:1992 Wild Card Decision

Welcome to the second Throwpack Thursday!

I said I would plug these in when I had time to do so.

Today's pack comes thanks to blog reader Oren who sent me some packs at Christmas time.

With Presidents being celebrated a few days ago, I thought why not keep the celebration with a presidential product.

1992 Wild Card Decision came with 8 cards per pack. Well, mine came with more. The 100-card product covers the candidates, the issues and love for Ross Perot.

In 1992 I wouldn't have opened any of this product as my cares were more about Darkwing Duck than politics. But, now I find it fun and I still really like Darkwing Duck.

Here is how my pack break went.

It started off with Bill Clinton, then came the brick of cards which I could feel from the outside of the pack to begin with.

Lots of sticking.

Pretty cool design, I like it. And I got 9 cards instead of the 8.

Wished the cards hadn't stuck together though. They will still go into the non-sport PC regardless and I will some day need to chase down the White House card.

Let me know in comments if you opened any of these before and your thoughts on them and if you have enjoyed the Throwpack Thursday series thus far.

Until the next time!

Rodney's Cardboard:1992 Action Packed Mint Parallel

Welcome back for a NEW Rodney's Cardboard to also celebrate another NFL full Sunday slate of games.

Today, the Giants have their home opener against the Carolina Panthers. I am cautiously optimistic as I am sure all of us Giants fans are.

*fingers crossed*

For today's Rodney's Cardboard I am showing off a pretty unique and rare card I never thought I would see. It isn't easy to find new Rodney's anymore but occasionally, once every few months, there is a new one that pops up.

Which is why I didn't ever expect to see this one.

This is a 1992 Action Packed Mint Parallel. The card is the base card, but completely covered in gold foil.

 

The back of the card is also covered in the gold foil, besides the picture of Rodney, and the card is numbered 138/500. I have personally never seen one of these and can only imagine how hard a card numbered to 500 is actually to find in the early 90's.

Thanks to my buddy Shane for helping me acquire this big need.

Thoughts on today's latest Rodney, if you have seen or owned one of these and what early 90's card are you still chasing welcomed in comments.

Hope everyone has a great Sunday, GO GIANTS!

Summer Of Wes Card #80

Random Card Of The Day #2: 1992 Stadium Club Dave Meggett

Rodney's Cardboard:1992 Classic NFL Game

Back in 1992, Classic released an NFL Game football set that consisted of 60 standard-size cards, a travel game board, player piece and die, rules, and scoreboard.

In that set, there was a Rodney Hampton card that I didn't know I needed until I stumbled upon it searching one day and realized that it was on my checklist.

Here it is. Full bleed photography and great looking border as well as it matches team colors

 

Back of the card has some stats and info on the player. There are also trivia questions along with the answers.

The game itself sounds kinda fun. There are a list of plays and they get determined outcomes by a roll of the dice. Sounds like something I would play and maybe may look to get the complete thing of to do so.

Rodney's Cardboard:1992 Pinnacle Sample

I recently stumbled upon a 5 card lot of 1992 Pinnacle Sample cards that had a key card that I needed. You guessed it, a Rodney.

The lot was overly affordable and to land a new needed Rodney, another NY Giants card I needed and a couple I could trade, then why not grab it?

Bobby Hebert. This one will probably just stay in my 90's collection

Pepper Johnson. New Giants PC card

Chris Spielman

Mike Croel that I traded

Reggie White that I traded. Has a partial Giant on the card as well

And finally the man himself!

The only thing that really separates this from the actual base card is the word SAMPLE written between the card number and his name.

It appears this must have been the main SAMPLE cards that Pinnacle handed out as every time I see a listing for them it is these five. Just glad I grabbed this lot just in case it goes extinct as there are not many listings of these out there.

WELCOME TO MARATHON DAY:NYG PC Spotlight 112:1992 Stadium Club Phil Simms

Alright folks, it's football season and I am excited! So to celebrate today, you will be getting a heavy dose of Giants cardboard with a new post every half an hour!!! These have been posted once already over at Snagging Cardboard but I am trying to integrate those posts onto here. I know many of you don't even know about that blog or have even seen it so most likely these card posts are new to you!

Enjoy and HAPPY FOOTBALL DAY!

 

Phil Simms

Base Card

Card number 620

I should also mention that this card and the rest I will be posting this week and last week are brought to by Wes. Wes, the man who sends the big ole heat mail days!

The Origins Of A Cardboard Addict:Report To The Goof Troop

H-H-H-H Hit it!
Like father, like son
You're always number one (Yes!)
Best buddies, best pals (Yeah!)
You always seem to work things out

Before The Goofy Movie and the Extremely Goofy Movie, we had The Goof Troop. I first watched it on the Disney Afternoon program block on NBC. It came on before Darkwing Duck if I remember right. It was an amazing two-hour block of programming I will never forget with so many great shows. I still think that Disney needs a channel with programming they provided us in the 80's and 90's. The kids will enjoy, but the adults from that era even more will.

The Goof Troop focuses on the relationship between Goofy and his son, Max, as well as their neighbors Pete and his family. Pete was one of Goofy's fellow classmates, in which now Pete's son PJ is Max's. I kinda get that relationship. My father, who was Goofy as I said in The Goofy Movie post, went to school with Dave who in turn is my best friend Brian's father. Their relationship is pretty rocky which is close to Goofy and Pete's, while mine and Brian's remain solid. If only we lived next door to each other instead of a couple of miles and it would have been an even better comparison.

The Goof Troop ran from 1992-1993 with 65 great episodes. I thought it was the end of my viewing of the duo til The Goofy Movie came out in 1995 followed by the Extremely Goofy Movie in 2000.

 

It's a lot of fun going back and watching these episodes again as I picked up both season volumes. Brings back those fun afternoons of having an after school snack and a show to watch.

Can't you see you're two of a kind?

Looking for a real good time

Real good time

(All right!)

When it comes to cardboard, my father Goofy, ooops, my father and I collected together as it should be well known on here already. One card we had always wanted but never got in the 90's was a 1992 Stadium Club Brett Favre. It was the card that appeared at the top of the hot list in Beckett it seemed every month. EVERY MONTH. The card was worth more than any of his rookie cards including his what I consider iconic Stadium Club rookie because of the misspelling of his name with Farve.

I found the Stadium Club rookie card error goofy, the fact that the year after his Stadium Club rookie was so hot was goofy (it to me is the same way with the 2012 Topps Heritage Mike Trout) and the fact I couldn't find this Favre locally was goofy. 

Well, 27 years later to my surprise, I found one in my Wes mail days. I was pretty taken back and felt a little goofy for feeling so.

Oh look, it's a picture of the real Stadium Club rookie card of Farve-Favre. Remember when Stadium Club posted the rookie cards of the featured player on the front on their card backs? Good Times.

I told my father in a recent conversation I finally had one after all of these years in which he was a little jealous. This card isn't nowhere near as hot or even worth as much as it was back then. But, once again, monetary value doesn't matter to me. It's the memories. 

The memories like Goof Troop. Even though that show only made it a couple of seasons, it was still a great one to watch and left me with plenty of memories including the great Favre chase. And even though it ended on TV, I still have the DVD's to go back in time with and my real life Goof Troop that's still together. Brian and I still keep in touch through texting/Facebook/Messenger and I was in his wedding last year as his best man. I still run into his parents grocery shopping, etc including his father who was a bit of a stickler back then (Pete was too) but has lightened up since and obviously my father and I are still close on the phone for hours every weekend talking about collecting. 

That's because we are the Goof Troop and we'll always stick together.

Report to the Goof Troop

(Goof Troop)

And we'll always stick together

(Always stick together)

We're the Goof Troop

(Goof Troop)

Best of friends forever

Unsolved Mysteries Episode 3

This blog post series is about unraveling unsolved mysteries from a card lot my mother-in-law bought me from an estate sale. What you are about to see isn't a breaking news broadcast or some new releases. There is a lot to go through here so whenever possible, I will try to condense down some of the graphics and whenever possible, real cards from the actual lot (well all of them are from the actual lot but let's have some fun with it) will be used for pictures.

Someone, somewhere can help me uncover the mysteries within this lot. Let's take a look and maybe one of you, will help me solve some mysteries.

*insert creepy music and theme song*

The location is still completely unknown where my Mother In Law went to grab this lot of sports cards other than it was a Estate Sale. Belief is, it was somewhere isolated as nobody grabbed them before she did. It may be the only explanation on why someone wouldn't have grabbed this lot before she showed up three hours after it started. Or maybe it was because the cards were more than they were expecting? Or was it a government conspiracy? I guess we will have to tune in to today's round and maybe you can help solve this mystery.

A 90's trio that I found a lot in packs. Was someone spying on me knowing this information ahead of time? Or was there a conspiracy?

An insert line that says Lottery Legends when it should say Lottery busts. Intriguing.

Except this one. This guy turned out okay. But, why did only one make it big time. Mystery....

Ghosted players in the background or are they really ghosts....

There was a lot of Prism in the box but all base except this one parallel. Staley was left stale in the lot.

Why would you ever leave such a great looking insert behind? Is there more to this card than I know?

How did Don Shula lead the Dolphins to the only undefeated season ever in the history of the NFL?

Why did Upper Deck create such fun parallels and products for kids with Collectors Choice than made the product disappear out of nowhere? it just vaniiiiiiiiisshheed.......................

Cardinals in the 90's, a mysteriously bad team.

299/299. Why was the end of the line found in this box? Why Ahman Green? Will my friend Bryan like this card? Lots of questions that will need to be answered.

So much creativity in inserts at one time with this hobby and then it all disappeared? Why don't we number inserts anymore and drive up their worthiness of being called an insert?

 

And finally, we find a lot of cards that appears was someones attempt at a set but they gave up or fell short? Or did the disappear like the rest of the cards to the set...

This does it for Episode Three of Unsolved Mysteries. There is a lot of unexplained findings here with even more mysteries to unravel. Tune in next time and Perhaps YOU, can help solve a mystery.

Pro Line Portraits

It's time to go back into that big box of goodies that came from P-Town of Waiting Til Next Year blog.

This time we are looking at 1991 Pro Line Portraits. The unique set that focuses on taking a portrait picture of a featured player and putting them on card board. Some of the photos they used were fun, others were funny and even some that were quirky.

P-Town had quite the pile of them he sent my way and I pulled out the best to showcase on here.

Jerry Rice. Back when he had hair

Michael Irvin looking mean and lean. He could have used this for a dating profile pic.

OJ Simpson back in his good days. he is also sporting one of those popular 90's Starter Jackets. Who didn't own one? I  know I did. Wonder if that's where he stored the white gloves?

Someday this kid will want this card. I love cards that capture special moments.

Dan Marino. Kind of cool angle.

Steve Young posing. Gotta appreciate a lefty QB with his talent and a great smile. They must have told him he would play the Chargers in the Super Bowl.

Roger showing off his Cowboy pride.

Up and above!

Gotta love Boomers hair. It looked better than he did on the field. I still think it's odd to see him in a Jets uniform sometimes.

Troy working out. Very weird photo to feature, but unique.

 

There were some others that almost made the photo gallery cut. But, maybe I will save those for another feature down the line. Still two more breakdowns from this big box of cards to go and that's not even featuring them all. Stay tuned!