Random Cardboard Of The Day:2021 Contenders MVP Contenders Carson Wentz

What's In The Mail Box:A Loaded Mail Box

Before I start with today's What's In The Mail Box, I will announce that most of my mail days will no longer be posted on here. I get so far behind I don't think it's fair for some of those waiting for me to post their mail days months down the road. My mail days on the other hand will be on Twitter @SportCardCollec where I also hosted a Twitter poll on where to share my mail days and it heavily favored on Twitter over my blog by a score of 89% to 11%. The only mail days that will appear on here will be NY Giants ones for Big Blue Sunday's and some others that may have a story attached to them. Keeping the Big Blue Sunday's segment as the main mail day posting will be a tad easier to keep up with as those mail days aren't quite as often. Today's post marks one of the last two of my regular mail day shares. As for what will replace it? Well, I am not sure yet to be honest. I will keep the creative juices flowing though for the next couple of weeks.

So one of these last few mail day postings on here features cards from @APetrelak who started off with a simple three baseball cards to trade me that turned into a huge chunk of them. There was more variety in here than a box of Munchkins from Dunkin'.

The main theme of the mail day is..do you collect...yeah sure..cards are cards to me.

Alec asked if I collected golf and I said, "sure, why not" and included these two Tiger Woods and a Young Guns rookie. I figured Tiger Woods is still Tiger Woods despite his downfall.

Next, he had these Donruss Basketball rookie cards to unload and anyone who has read this blog knows I am a die hard rookie card collector. That was an obvious yes. Not many names I know in here, but you just never know.

A few football rookies and a TY Hilton parallel. Ebron now plays beside Hilton in Indy and Kendricks is a solid linebacker.

Some Leaf rookies. Dak, Cook, Bridgewater (Sage Hit) and Goff. Solid names. I still think the best of this group will be Goff in the long run with Dak behind him.

Speaking of good rookies, here is a 2016 Classics Carson Wentz.

Jim Kelly parallel from Absolute parallel.

Zay Jones relic card. I really liked the design of this card so it was a yes for sure. Don't you guys ever just say yes to a card because it looks nice?

Tyreek Hill was a beast in Week 1 and this marks my first relic card of him.

The baseball cards of the group is what started the conversation for this trade. Albies could be headed for ROY honors and help lead the Braves in the playoffs. He has a solid future ahead and this card is numbered 1/199.

I don't know who Cornelius Randolph is, but it's a paper parallel /25 so I will take it. Could be a somebody some day.

Absolutely loved this Correa. I had always wanted to see a Instavision card up close in the return of the popular 90's insert and now I have one.

Cool throwback binder with all of the old logos. Sure, it's got pages for storing.

 

Not sure what these Marvel cards are, they are oversized and appear to be previews, but I took em. That's just what I do. I will be honest and say though I have yet to watch the Deadpool movie even though I have always been tempted to.

This one just look cool.

 

Thanks Alec for another solid trade. Looking forward to the next!

My next card in this mail day was from @JGfan24ever. This was apart of a mail day I just posted on the NY Giants. This card I got a long, long time ago. See what I mean in this delayed posts?

Anyways, Michael put up a bunch of hockey cards for grabs and I saw a Young Guns and requested it. Once again being the great guy he is he sent it my way. I don't know who Copp is, but a rookie is a rookie.

Thanks goes to Michael for the card!

There is one more mail day posting like this to come. I won't even tell you ahead what's in it as I like to keep surprises on here.

REVIEW:2016 Donruss Optic Football+GIVEAWAY!

If you like it you better put some chrome on it..oh oh oh

That's exactly what Panini did to Donruss. Donruss alone was a great product packed full of fun colorful finds and lots of value. So you can only assume that the chromed version off it would be the same.

Let's see if those assumptions are correct

In every box of 2016 Donruss Optic football, you will find 20 Packs Per Box with 4 Cards Per Pack. You will find just one autograph per box and boxes are a bit steep with only that one hit at $125.

 

You should also find:

• 10 ROOKIES
• 10 RATED ROOKIES
• 4 BASE HOLO
• 2 ROOKIE HOLO
• 2 RATED ROOKIE HOLO
• 1 GRIDIRON KINGS,
• 1 LEGENDS OF THE FALL
• 1 THE ROOKIES
• 1 PROTOTYPES

The base set is as I stated, chromed versions of the Donruss base. They have the feel of Prizm. The base set consists of 100 veterans, 50 rookies and 50 Rated Rookies. You will find most of the top tier rookies in the Rated Rookies subset.

 

Speaking of Rated Rookies.....

 

With anything that's "chromed", you expect parallels and there are aplenty in Optic. These are the basic ones known as holo.

 

The more in-depth parallels that are numbered are below this. The side borders tell you what they are. They come in Aqua #/299, Orange #/199, Blue #/149, Red #/99, Carolina Blue #/50, Black #/25, Gold #/10, Green #/5, Gold Vinyl 1/1.

 

This Flacco is a Carolina Blue /50

 

The rookies and Rated Rookies also have parallels but more in variety such as Bronze, Holo, Pink, Purple (retail), Red and Yellow, Aqua #/299, Orange #/199, Blue #/149, Red #/99, Carolina Blue #/50, Black #/25, Gold #/10, Green #/5, Gold Vinyl 1/1.

My holo find right here wasn't too shabby I must say....

 

My other

There are not only parallels, but inserts that were featured in Donruss as well chromed. Of course those have parallels too.

X-Factor are die cut and look prety cool. I bet the parallels look even better. The parallels include, Blue #/149, Red #/99, Gold #/10, Green #/5, and Gold Vinyl 1/1.

 

The Rookies and Prototype are two more inserts to be found and also include parallels. Those include for both, Blue #/149, Red #/99, Gold #/10, Green #/5, and Gold Vinyl 1/1.

 

Same can be said for Gridiron Kings. They also have Blue #/149, Red #/99, Gold #/10, Green #/5, and Gold Vinyl 1/1.

 

And finally, my box had the promised Legends Of The Fall of a true Legend, Mr. Peyton Manning. These as well have the same parallels of Blue #/149, Red #/99, Gold #/10, Green #/5, and Gold Vinyl 1/1. It also provided me with a Peyton Manning tribute insert with the same parallels to.

 

Other notable inserts I didn't pull are, Peyton Manning Top Targets, Inducted and Fans of the Game all with the same parallels.

Now onto my autograph pull.

A good player, however a redemption. It's a Rated Rookie auto of Saints WR Michael Thomas. From my research, these are all numbered to 149.

 

 

Other hits not found in my box are,

Fans of the Game Set autographs, Rookie Signatures, Donruss Threads, Donruss Rookie Threads, Rookie Patch Autographs,Rookie Dual Autographs, Rookie Triple Autographs,The Elite Series Autographs and The Legends Series Autograph. All of these have parallels too of course.

 

Overall, my box was okay. Price is a bit steep with only one hit, but this rookie class is a driving force. Even the base rookies of stars Prescott and Elliot go for decent bucks as they are not guaranteed to be found every box. So when you find the parallels of those cards, it's a double bonus. It was a bit disappointing that the hit in my box was a redemption, but at least it's of a player worth waiting for. If it had been some of the others...well....

 

SO TIME FOR A GIVEAWAY!

 

WIN THESE COLORFUL CARDS...

 

 

BY TELLING ME THE NUMBERING TO /50 ON THIS CARD.... 

 

AND.... FOLLOWING THESE RULES!

1. Make sure you thank Panini America for this review box and check out their site for products like this one and others. Also thank Tracy Hackler and give him a Twitter follow too!
2. ***VERY IMPORTANT***MUST BE A U.S. RESIDENT to enter or have a shipping address in the U.S. Shipping costs have gone haywire and I can't afford to ship everywhere.This is always hard to do as I appreciate all readers but I hope you all understand non-U.S. readers.
3. Card may be shipped PWE. I like to forewarn on this.
4. LEAVE A COMMENT BELOW telling me ONE PRO AND ONE CON OF THE PRODUCT for both or either box. PLEASE ALSO KEEP IN MIND I AM HOPING FOR GOOD PRO/CON FEEDBACK.
5. Also leave me a comment telling me the card numbering /50 for the JOE FLACCO above
6. Must do BOTH 5 and 6 to be entered or entry will be null.
7. The ones who guess the right number or are closest without going over will be entered in the giveaway.
8. Sport Card Collectors or it's owner (person who runs the blog), WILL NOT be held responsible for lost, stolen or damaged mail. Sorry had to add this in since someone tried to scam me once about this.
9. Contest starts today, ends on January 26th 2017. Winner will be announced in a separate post on January 27th 2017.
10. Don't forget to thank the above sponsor of this contest and I won't mind a thank you as well :) 

Good luck to those that enter!!

2016 NFL Draft Card:Carson Wentz

Congrats to Carson Wentz on being drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles.