Collins Haul

Today as I am watching the snow fall, I am dreaming of football season again. Though I would like to enjoy some summer weather first.

So instead, I will find myself living through football cards by taking a look at my latest Kerry Collins additions from Burbank Sportcards Beckett Marketplace.

When I look at knocking down cards on my player want lists, I always tackle 90's inserts first. The numbered, shinier the better.

This card is simple but bold and attractive.

Rookie Stallions. If you look closely, you will see stallions in the foil etching.

Summit only last two years, but it produced some great parallels and a solid looking base set.

Turf Team was a set I had considered chasing, but think I will just grab a few here and there.

The Rookie Rising Inserts though, I am definitely chasing. Panini brought these back for this year's Zenith and made them case hits.

Burbank didn't have a picture of this card, so I had no idea what to expect, but it's even better than I thought. Pacific knew how to make a die cut card.

Spx in the 90's, nothing better than that except EX2000. One card packs of the Spx made it tough to chase your favorite players and especially the gold parallels.

90's parallels will always rule over any that are put out today. The Stadium Club matrix is one of my favorites. I wished I could have captured it better.

The rivalries card is actually a dual card, on the opposite side is Ken Norton Jr.

I can't find any information on these parallels, but they each feature a colored star on the front of them. For some reason they are called bronze and gold redemption respectively. Maybe they were mail in sets.

And the final part of this mail day.

With these 26 new adds, my Collins collection jumps up to 526 cards. There will probably be more incoming soon from my next Burbank order. If you have any for trade or donate, hit me up via email!

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Nuttin' But The Hits:1996 Classick NFL Experience

Unlike my first break from BBCE with a Summit retail box, this time I grabbed a full size box of 1996 Classic. This was a product line that reeled me in 1995 and I caught on to the love of it since.

Boxes come with 24 packs of 10 cards and only are $12. So a steal for someone like me. I would take this kind of a break any day over a blaster of today's junk.

Let's check out my break shall we?

The base cards are beautiful. Clean, full bleed photography like this Rodney Hampton I found in my first box. I already had one, maybe five copies of this already. This one will stay in the base set I am going to build.

Excellent photographs.

One of my favorite 90's QB's here,

The GOAT. Will Saquon ever be Barry? No. I love Saquon and everything, but Barry was something special to watch that will never be seen again. Saquon will be good, but nobody runs ten yards backwards and beats you for 80 yards like Barry.

Dan the Man. Wished he could have gotten himself a ring. Playing for the Dolphins is tough.

TD scored lots of TD's. Could have been an all-time great if it wasn't for the injury bug.

Curtis Martin to me played better for the Jets than he did for the Patriots.

This guy was fun to watch as well, except against my Giants.

My first two inserts are these Super Bowl XXX cards. Cool looking full foil cards. NFC had the darker background  (by the way was a huge fan of both of these players especially Kerry)

AFC version is more lighter,

Sculpted die cut insert. I pulled the Jeff Blake in my first pack. I remember how many collectors wanted Deion Sanders cards after he went to Dallas. Especially his first Cowboys stuff.

Printers Proof parallel. Only one per box. Remember when parallels were actually tough to find? Not in every other pack or every pack? I much rather have it this way. This one is of legend Warren Moon.

Well that does it. Two box break from BBCE. I did much better with the Classic as you can see. Next time I will get Summit hobby which was honestly only a few more dollars. I did bust a box of that already last year and had a blast.

Thoughts on this break?

Nuttin' But The Hits:1996 Summit Football

Back in October, I won a gift certificate on Facebook from BBCE for their World Series contest. I was one of the lucky ones who chose Red Sox to win it all. It was painful to do, but at least there was a bright shiny ending in winning the $25 gift certificate.

Without any extra funds kicking around besides enough to cover their tad high shipping, I snagged two boxes I had my eye on that came to $24. So I was pretty happy overall.

Those boxes showed up a week later and here is the first box break.

1996 Summit football 16 pack break. This one is a retail pack break.

Why did I mention it was retail? Well the base card stock is different. The hobby version is on black background while retail is on silver foil. Honestly I like the black more.

Here are the base cards,

TD,

Dave Brown,new to the PC!

Tyrone Wheatley, new to the PC!

Some key rookies from 1996,

Terry Glenn,

Eddie Kennison. Well this isn't really key, just a guy I pull a lot of

Give me the ball! Okay, Keyshawn,

Eddie George!

Subset of John Elway. I will say the foil version of this card looks much cooler.

Slash!

My first insert find is a Inspirations Kevin Hardy numbered card.

Second was this 1:20 packs Willie McGinest Artist Proof parallel. Weird how they used the back for their parallels.

That does it for break one. Nothing too exciting in this one. Hoping that break number two gives me more than lots of base cards. I plan on collecting the 1996 Summit set, but the one printed on black background. That's the one I am more familiar with collecting and the nostalgia is why I want it.

Cards On FOOTBALL Cards

On Twitter, I saw a tweet from Cards on Cards that he had discovered some football card finds from Goodwill and was looking to move them.

I see that as an opportunity knowing how much I love collecting football cards.

So I checked out his post and noticed that the cards fell right into my liking with most of it being 90's parallels and inserts. So we had a discussion and pulled off a trade.

My mail day arrived a few days ago so let's take a look at what I landed.

Some NY Giants. I know I normally wait to post these for Sunday's, but I am a bit backed up on that already so I am posting them now to get myself caught up. Here are some Topps Gold parallels.

Wild Card was such a deep set. It pretty much covers most of my wants for Hamptons for the early 90's. So hard to find some of these striped parallels.

A few guys I enjoyed watching. Tyrone Wheatley had some great seasons in Oakland just not in NY. Phillipi Sparks made some big plays on defense for the G-men and even is the father of Jordin Sparks who was on American Idol. I will always take in Victor Cruz cards. Wished the guy hadn't gotten injured as he had such a bigger future ahead with the Gmen. But, I do appreciate his time there and his big Super Bowl touchdown in 46.

Another Wheatley and a Dave Brown.

Love this photo. That appealed to me immediately. Upper Deck did rookie photo shoots the right way.

That ends the Gmen, but he we are with some 90's parallels. Upper Deck Electric Silver.

1995 Classic silvers

I dig the Collectors Choice gold parallels from 1994 and who doesn't love Crash The Game inserts especially of Hall Of Famers. But, the card that really caught me was the Nemeses one on the bottom.

Gold Prism and a Cris Carter to help my set needs from 1995 Ultra awards.

1994 Ultra 2nd year standout inserts include Jason Elam who I consider one of the greatest ever to kick.

1994 Fleer Fleer All Pro Irvin and Aikman

Some draft prospects from 1994 Fleer including Mario Bates and Errict Rhett.

I found goooooooooooooold! Gold Rush inserts were some of the coolest early 90's parallels besides....

these. Nothing topped these Special Effects early on. Not even the first refractors from Finest. These are what got me hooked onto football cards. Once again, this would be another fun parallel set to build along with my many others. I just may chase it especially with six more to help me out.

A big thanks to Cards On Cards for the mail day and great trade. I hope if you come across any more football like this or NY Giants that you will remember me.