No! Not him!

No!!!!!!!!

Not him!!!!

Not our best player!!!!!!

Why Metlife???? Why??

Why did you have to damage our best player..........AGAIN??!!

If you haven't heard yet, the NY Giants best player and upcoming NFL stud Malik Nabers was injured during the win over the Chargers on Sunday tearing his ACL because of the terrible turf at Metlife. The same kind of injury that former star wide out Odell Beckham Jr suffered as well.

And many other Giants.

The Giants have to replace that turf. 

They can't keep putting players through this. Especially their young stars like Malik. He was going to have an even bigger role and even more breakout year this year and would have been the weapon that young rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart needed.

Instead, he is out.

So, all I have for now, is memories of what was this season and last season and these recent pickups,

This is a collection I will continue to add to as time goes on.

I hope he comes back fully healthy and ready next season. The Giants will need him. Jaxson Dart will need him.

Random Card Of The Day: 2024 Elite Aspirations Red Antonio Gates

Random Card Of The Day: 2024 Elite First Class Irving Fryar

Single Card Mail Day:2017 Elite Passing The Torch Autograph Sterling Shepard

Yesterday was another Single Card Mail Day for me. Incoming cards have been a bit slow the past couple of weeks.

Today's post comes via a RAK I got from my friend @Brent3323 who grabbed this Sterling Shepard autograph from a stack seller on Twitter.

It's a nice-looking autograph card from 2017 Elite of Passing The Torch. The only thing I question about the card is the fact that past releases with Passing The Torch used to be dual players on a card, one was a legend, and the other is a rising star that was being handed the torch. However, this was just a one player card. Guess he is getting ready to hand the torch to someone else? Especially since this is most likely was his last season with the Giants.

The autograph is /99

And features a pretty plain back.

I think with this Shepard autograph it puts me into the double digits of autographs of him.

Thanks again to my buddy Brent for sending this autograph my way.

Thoughts on Passing The Torch and today's autograph is welcomed in comments.

Rest Of The Kerry's Cardboard

Just like with the Eli Mannings, I figured it was time to play catch up with Kerry Collins and my latest adds of him from Burbank Sportcards.

First up, a Topps Gold Label Premium parallel.

These are numbered to 1000. These are tougher than the amount of finding them.

 

Pacific Invincible red /150

Card back.

Topps Chrome refractor from 2001 Topps Chrome.

A year where the regular silver refractors were numbered to 999

Now a cool die-cut, Aspirations parallel /95. Sharp card especially in person. I was stoked when I saw this on Burbank

Back of the card.

One corner on this one is iffy, but these are tough finds so I will take it as is.

Premier Date parallel /138

Holographic parallel

 

Another tough one to find /75

Some great finds in my opinion for my Kerry Collins PC. I may have to update how many cards I have in that collection at some point.

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Single Card Mail Day:2017 Elite Passing The Torch Autograph Sterling Shepard

Yesterday was another Single Card Mail Day for me. Incoming cards have been a bit slow the past couple of weeks.

Today's post comes via a RAK I got from my friend @Brent3323 who grabbed this Sterling Shepard autograph from a stack seller on Twitter.

It's a nice-looking autograph card from 2017 Elite of Passing The Torch. The only thing I question about the card is the fact that past releases with Passing The Torch used to be dual players on a card, one was a legend, and the other is a rising star that was being handed the torch. However, this was just a one player card. Guess he is getting ready to hand the torch to someone else? Especially since this is most likely was his last season with the Giants.

The autograph is /99

And features a pretty plain back.

I think with this Shepard autograph it puts me into the double digits of autographs of him.

Thanks again to my buddy Brent for sending this autograph my way.

Thoughts on Passing The Torch and today's autograph is welcomed in comments.

Eli Is Back!

Eli is back! Well, an update on my Eli Manning collection is. I kind of wished Eli was still playing for the Giants, if Ben Roethlisberger can, Eli could have.

It has been a while, I think 6 months plus, since I posted an update from my Eli Manning PC. I am happy to report I am closing in on 800 different Eli Manning cards and currently sit at 769. I am hoping by the time I post my next update; I will hit the next milestone.

For today, I just want to show off my latest additions thanks to my latest Burbank Sportcards mail day.

When I shop on there, I look for what I consider to be bargains but also pieces I find unique first. Numbered, refractors, etc are always the first grabs. Then if I still have some budget left, I go back and snag the cheap base needs.

Here we go,

This was one of my favorite pickups,

Passing The Torch /400

And then a life lesson about using a light box,

 

Don't take pictures of acetate cards this way. This is a 2005 Rookies and Stars Slideshow silver /750.

I know more Eli's are on the way and I believe I have some I haven't taken care of yet as well. I will be sure to post when I reach my big milestone.

If you have any Eli Manning cards for trade, hit me up at sportcardcollectors@hotmail.com.

Have a great Monday!

PACK WARS: EPISODE TWO

Star Wars, Pack Wars whatever. Just picture the opening scroll through of me rambling and the words coming across the big screen. That alone should get you interested.

Welcome back to another Pack Wars. Today, we pair up two more NFL products.

VS 

It's the crazy $15+ Value Pack war battle. Remember when these were $10 and under? Those were the days.

Let's check out Prestige first,

A PC card! Needed the Saquon Prestige base.

My 2 Sunburst parallels, nothing to brag about. And yes, Dion, I set aside the Raven one :)

Another PC card in JPP and the ever so dominant Derrick Henry

My four rookies, nobody I have heard of.

Next up, Elite.

My pack was loaded with base card talent. Joe Montana, Tom Brady were among the group.

Tom Brady Spellbound Pink.

John Elway pink

And last card, the only rookie from the pack is a Kyle Trask Sp photo variation pink.

I think there seems to be an obvious winner here. But, do I let PC cards do the talking or a pack that had more punch? I will let you decide in comments.

My National

My biggest hobby dream, other than being on a card itself in a product (I am looking at you for Ginter), is to make it to The National.

For me, The National wouldn't be about buying, selling or even trading cards, it would be about meeting the people. The people who blog alongside me. The people who read my blog. The people who have helped move this blog forward over the years. The people who I call friends.

But, cost, distance and having time to go will always be the holding back factor. Though I have joked with my nephew who just took a trip Atlantic City-which is home to next years show-about him taking me next year in which he happily said yes. Him and I both know that, it won't happen.

So as always I will live my dream through someone else.

This years National I lived it through @clrshonuff.

Chris and myself have done quite a few trades over the years so I had mentioned to him while he was at the biggest show on earth, to keep an eye out on any new cards for our trade, especially Rodney Hampton 1/1's.

Though he didn't find any Rodney Hampton 1/1's, what he did find was pretty cool.

2005 Zenith Epix 1st Down insert

Donruss Elite Turn Of The Century Parallel

2005 Gridiron Kings Parallel

Panini Contenders Draft Ticket

2006 Donruss Classics Timeless Tributes Parallel

Rodney Hampton 1991 Fleer Ultra (IP or TTM autograph)

All of these were snagged for me at The National, but being the great guy Chris is, he snuck in an extra surprise.

 

He had remembered how much I wanted an Anthony Mason autograph he had posted up, so he passed it along. Makes a nice add to my 90's Knicks collection. One of these days I hope to find a Patrick Ewing autograph in the mail. So if you are Christmas shopping for me early, there you go.

Thanks goes out to Chris for the cards and trade. Looking forward to our next.

Hopefully some day I will be able to experience what Chris did, in the meantime, Topps if you are reading this and while you still have a license, this blogger would sign on for free if you let him in Allen&Ginter. No charge at all! If an Egg and a beer maker can be a base card, so can't a sport card blogger.

CARDBOARD REVIEW:2020-2021 Elite Basketball

Basketball season may have come to a rest, but not the cards. They are still flying off the shelves and new releases continue to come.

Let's see how today's box break went with a box of Elite.

Every box of 2020-2021 Elite basketball comes with 20 packs of 5 cards each. Each box guarantees 2 autographs and a good amount of parallels. Boxes run about $350 and like the 2019-20 set, 2020-21 Donruss Elite Basketball will be sold through Panini’s website.

BASE:

Elite has stuck with a pretty simple layout design over the years made up with a lot of foil. Some years it's plain and other years there is a shine.

This years base design is back to the shine and even adds a little bit of background photo.

The base set is built up of 100 base cards of veterans.

And 50 rookies numbered to 299 which makes for an overall base chase of 150 cards. I like how this base set is built. You are not going to find a rookie card in every pack and the numbering adds some value to not on the card itself, but to a set chase of the product.

Well done.

PARALLELS:

There are plenty of shiny parallels to find in Elite, but the good part is, there isn't an overwhelming about like you can find in some products.

Find the following, Red, Blue /99, Aspirations /99 or less, Status /94 or less, Purple /49, Gold /10 and Black 1/1.

 

Blue /99

Blue /99

Purple /49 (solid pull!)

Purple /49

Aspirations die cut /99

Aspirations die cut /99

INSERTS

The inserts in this years Elite are fun, colorful, and shiny.

This Jokic Star Status is one of 20 cards in the set.

Primary Colors has only 10 in the set. This is the best of them to find..if only Panini had MJ rights.

Power Formulas has 30 cards to collect in the set.

And returning again for another year in Elite is Spellbound. Featuring 9 players this year, the Spellbounds spell out a players first or last name once collected all from the set.

HITS:

Elite is loaded with some great ink, but my box didn't contain any of the top ink in the set. It instead had some interesting signatures.

RJ Hampton. Nope, not that Hampton I collect but what a short to the point signature he has.

 

And then comes this Cam Reddish. Is this possibly the worst signed card you have ever seen? It literally looks like he was up late one night trying to get these done and fell asleep and the sharpie slid across the sticker. Charles Barkley would say these are TURRRRIBLE.

OVERALL THOUGHTS:

I really like the build up of the overall product. Design is one of the better Elite ones and I liked the fact the players name can actually be read in this foil use.

The value of this break was a little rough, but it was nice finding a Zion, something I didn't have much luck with in the previous years products.

Let me know your thoughts on Reddish's autograph and the product as a whole in comments.

Stay tuned for some giveaways from Elite coming up soon either on here or on Twitter.