Episode 21:Breaking A Box Of 1999 Leaf Rookies And Stars Football

I recently made a big trade with my friend and fellow 90's wax buster Shane. He is the one who runs the Cheap Wax Wednesday and Other Stuff where he breaks boxes that cost under $50 from 80's, 90's and today.

In my trade, I not only got some set help along with some sweet singles,I will show off on here, I  was also able to land some boxes of stuff from 1995-1999 that I will bust and show off on here as well.

Today marks the final box in our trade with a break of 1999 Leaf Rookies and Stars football.

There was actually a shot at some hits in this break, it wasn't what I was going for, but would be fun to find. There are 24 packs of 9 cards each. This box was a higher priced one at $37. My expectations for this one was high.

The base cards are easy design. Team color down one side to to the bottom with player name and team logo built in. There are some decent action shots as well.

Had to show off a new Kerry!

I really have a hard time remembering Chris in a Falcons uniform, but he must have been.

Rookies in the set were 1:2 packs so you roughly get 12. I remember when I busted some of this in 1999 that the big chase was for Kurt Warner and that's who I hoped to get. Instead I got some no names mixed in with

A few known ones, the best being Kevin Faulk, Ricky Williams and Jevon Kearse.

Now onto the inserts. Unlike other boxes from the 90's, Rookies and Stars or any Donruss product didn't put odds on their inserts. They just randomly stuck them in there. So who knows which ones were rare or not but all were numbered. Which I think helped with their value.

Let's see what I pulled.

Great American Heroes Of Terrell Davis #d to 2500

Game Plan of Doug Flutie #d to 2500

Cross Training of John Elway #d to 1250

Greatest Hits #d to 2500 of Terry Glenn

Ticket Masters featuring two of the teams top players. I got Seattle with Watters and Galloway #d to 2500

Freshman Orientation of James Johnson #d to 2500

Woooooooo. Nice hit alert folks! Longevity parallel numbered to 50! I can't imagine these were easy pulls.

Well, no hits but a whole lot of fun still. Once again this trade for 90's wax left me wanting more. A big thanks goes out to Shane for another fun trade and I hope we can do this again!

Episode 20:1995 Action Packed Football Box Break

I recently made a big trade with my friend and fellow 90's wax buster Shane. He is the one who runs the Cheap Wax Wednesday and Other Stuff where he breaks boxes that cost under $50 from 80's, 90's and today.

In my trade, I not only got some set help along with some sweet singles,I will show off on here, I  was also able to land some boxes of stuff from 1995-1999 that I will bust and show off on here as well.

Today a rip of 1995 Action Packed football.

There are 24 packs of 8 cards to find in 1995 Action Packed football with boxes running just at $12.

Once again, I busted a ton of this stuff back in 1995 and have been wanting to build this fun base set.

The base was Action Packed and used the embossing technology on player and name.

The rookies are still in their college uniforms.

My boy Kerry!

I thought this was a fun shot

Now some parallels

Quick Silver. It says it on the back. Not sure why it didn't upload to show you.

And some boom in this box!

1:96 odds of pulling an Armed Forces Braille

 

 

That has braille on the back of the card. Pretty cool looking insert

And what's this....another?!?! But wait, this doesn't have the braille on the back. Interesting. Must be two different variations from my research. The tougher version is the braille.

One thing I didn't spy in my box break was a 24K gold parallel that was supposed to be 1:24 packs where you would think would be one per box. Oh well. Pretty excited about the other two hits.

Once again, this is not junk. This is fun and worth every penny.

Episode 1:Heart Breaking A Box Of 1995 Topps Series 2 Football

BLOGGERS NOTE: For the next few weeks I will be publishing some posts that appeared on Now That's Some High Quality Cardboard blog starting with today's. I have decided to no longer blog on there because it's too hard to keep up with more than one and the fact that it didn't quite have the response I had hoped. Since not many viewed those posts and I didn't share most on Twitter, those posts will become new to most on here. So for those that viewed them and maybe even commented, you will be seeing them again.

Also these are helping be filler posts for me since I don't have any new content and it's been kind of nice taking a hiatus from having to be on here everyday. All of those posts will be posted with the word Episode in front of them. Enjoy!!

I recently made a big trade with my friend and fellow 90's wax buster Shane. He is the one who runs the Cheap Wax Wednesday and Other Stuff where he breaks boxes that cost under $50 from 80's, 90's and today.

In my trade, I not only got some set help along with some sweet singles,I will show off on here, I  was also able to land some boxes of stuff from 1995-1999 that I will bust and show off on here as well.

I thought for the very first episode of this series, I would take a dive into a very disappointing box of 1995 Topps Series 2 retail football.

Why was it disappointing? Let's take a look.

In every retail box of 1995 Topps Series 2 football, there are 36 packs with 12 cards per pack. This box was $12 so it was a good deal for a lot of cards and memories. I thought maybe I would build the base set or at the very least have the rookies and inserts to enjoy.

However, that wasn't the case.

I ended with this Stanley Richard face after seeing that every pack had damaged corner and stuck together cards.

It was beyond fixable and heartbreaking. My hobby OCD hit an 11 on a 10 scale.

Here were some more base that got the worst of it. The key word here, some. As 95% of the box contained destroyed cards.

Even this Air McNair didn't survive.

or any of the Steve Young subsets that I really wanted back. I think I was able to save one.

Fortunately enough for me, I was able to save this great 1995 Draft Pick card of Kordell Stewart. This was the only one from the box break.

Let's check out my pulls from this box to see if they survived at least.

Here is a Jacksonville Jaguars expansion booster of Kelvin Pritchett. This card didn't get damaged and looks amazing. These fall 1:36 packs. Would be fun set build...hmmmm....

Up next, I pulled three Profiles by Steve Young that fall 1:12 packs. This insert has Steve Young giving his thoughts on each player. The first one I landed was Chris Spielman

This was a set I am building and all three are new additions. Luckily for these as well that they stayed away from having any damage.

Barry Sanders or as I call him, GOAT.

Jerry Rice, another GOAT.

Then I pulled a 1:36 Topps Finest insert of Bruce Smith. These took on the base card design from 1995 Finest. One of the most iconic Finest designs ever.

Then came more heartbreak after being on a streak of positives with my inserts. One of the newest set needs was Air Raid which you can find in these boxes. Which is why I wanted it. They fall 1:36 packs, which should be one per box.

However, I found two. That meant only eight more to go for the set. Well, it didn't quite work that way.

The first one I pulled, a dual of  Cunningham and Barnett had damaged corners.

The second one I pulled and was extremely shocked to see was of Marino and Fryar. Sadly though, it was severely stuck to another card and upon finally prying off very slowly and carefully, it had leftover card on it.

This box wasn't quite as much fun as I thought it was going to be just because the cards were all damaged. I may have been able to save 30 cards from the box as the rest I have given away already to kids who needed some beginning cards to practice with.

I will need to update all of the set adds and needs from this box when I can. In the meantime, you can check out what I already need on the tabs above.

CARDBOARD REVIEW:2019 Donruss Football (extra hit and a case hit!)

Whoa doggy. I know a lot of you complain about Panini and their baseball products but one of my favorite products they have for baseball was Donruss. The inserts look stunning and the hits flow out better than any other baseball product for the low cost.

Now that Donruss is back for Football, I was hoping for the same and it did not disappoint. I may rate this in my Top 5 favorite breaks of the year so far and it may actually be number one currently.

Let's see why I felt this way.

Each box of 2019 Donruss football comes with 18 packs of 10 cards each. There is one autograph and one relic card per box and boxes are pretty affordable at $70 per.

BASE:

There are 350 full color photo cards in the base set. Action shots included also included,

Legends of the game

 And rookies

Along with the 50 Rated Rookie Futures.

VARIATIONS:

There are Variations to find in the base set as well that feature a different photo on the front than it's base card. On the back has a V by the card number. I show an example below.

PARALLELS:
Here is an overall look at the parallels. There is sooooooooooo much.

First up, the Variation parallels

PARALLEL CARDS: Aqueous Test, Season Stat Line /500, and Jersey Number /99.

PRESS PROOF PARALLELS: Blue, Bronze, Green, Red, Silver /100, Silver Die-Cut /75, Gold /50, Gold Die-Cut /25, Black /10, and Black Die-Cut 1/1.

 

Reds including Tom Brady (VARIATION TOO) and JuJu

Aqueous Test parallels. Don't forget to check those card backs!!! The front looks no different.

RATED ROOKIE PARALLELS

PARALLEL CARDS: Aqueous Test, Canvas, Premium, Season Stat Line /500, Canvas Studio Series /100, AND Jersey Number /97

PRESS PROOF PARALLELS: Blue, Bronze, Green, Red, Yellow, Silver /100, Silver Die-Cut /75, Gold /50, Gold Die-Cut /25, Black /10, AND Black Die-Cut 1/1.

 

Canvas with a rough texture feel like a canvas

Studio Canvas with a textured feel and /100

Season Stat Line Parallel /500

Now the base card parallels,

PARALLEL CARDS: Aqueous Test, Season Stat Line /500, and Jersey Number /99

PRESS PROOF PARALLELS: Blue, Bronze, Green, Red, Yellow, Silver /100, Silver Die-Cut /75, Gold /50, Gold Die-Cut /25, Black /10, and Black Die-Cut 1/1.

 

Season Stat Line /500

Silver Die Cut /75

Gold /50

Gold Die Cut /25

INSERTS:

All-Time Gridiron Kings has 15 cards in the set

There are 15 cards to find in Gridiron Kings

 

Rookie Gridiron Kings has 20 cards to chase

Legends Of The Fall has 20 cards to chase.

Dominators includes the leagues best with a 40 card checklist

The Rookies has 40 cards to collect including my boy Daniel!

Elite Series has 30 cards to chase. A standbye insert in Donruss since the 90s

Celebrating 20 years of the 1999 design with these 40 cards

The Champ is here has 20 gagful cards of Patriots. Gag.

Elite Series rookies also have 30 to find of all rookies including my boy Jones

The Legends Series has 20 cards to collect

 

Power Formulas has 20 cards in the set and looks spectacular if turned in the sun just right

Team Pride has 32 cards, one for each team. I need the Giants!!

Action All-Pros has 20 cards in the set. Checkerboard shine.

Highlights with some great action shots has 20 cards to chase

HITS

Fans Of The Game auto!! Rob Riggle was the one I wanted the most out of the three card checklist. The Erin Andrews is the one I want next

 

Passing The Torch dual patch /25. Really sharp card.

Well that's my two hits....and I was happy...but it wasn't over there yet....

Elite Series auto /25 of Christian McCaffrey!!

Then a Downtown Case Hit. Both pulled in the final two packs of the box. These Downtowns are rare and tough pulls.

OTHER HITS NOT IN MY BOX BUT COULD BE IN YOURS INCLUDE,

• Rated Rookie Autographs
• Rated Rookies Canvas Autographs
• Signature Marks Autographs
• Signature Marks Blue
• Action All-Pros Autographs
• All-Pro Kings Autographs
• All-Time Gridiron Kings Autographs
• Canton Kings Autographs
• Dominators Autographs
• Elite Series Autographs
• Elite Series Rookies Autographs
• Gridiron Kings Autographs
• Highlights Autographs
• Inducted Autographs
• Jersey Kings Autographs
• Leather Kings Autographs
• Legends of the Fall Autographs
• Power Formulas Autographs
• Red Hot Rookies Autographs
• Retro 1989 Autographs
• Retro 1999 Autographs
• Rookie Phenom Jersey Autographs
• Rookie Gridiron Kings Autographs
• The Champ is Here Autographs
• The Legends Series Autographs
• The Rookies Autographs
• White Hot Rookies Autographs
• All-Pro Kings Relics
• Canton Kings Relics
• Donruss Threads Relics
• Jersey Kings Relics
• Leather Kings Relics
• Leather Kings Studio Series
• Rookie Phenoms Jerseys

OVERALL:As affordable as a box break can be. Tons of numbered and colored parallels. Two hits if not more per box. Tons of both rookies and veteran hits to chase with Superstars like Tom Brady as well for autographs. A fun base set to build and the Rated Rookie to bring you back in time.

This is by far my favorite break of 2019 and I had a lot of fun opening up every pack. Each one had it's own surprise and I can't wait to find some more to bust. This is box break you must do yourself and not have a breaker do. Too much fun to miss out on.

I hope the retail breaks are just as much fun.

However, if you do use a breaker, I strongly recommend using Midwest Box Breaks for your breaking needs. They are always hitting the big pulls so if they are breaking this, you could put yourself in a good spot. They also SHIP ALL CARDS! Get what you pay for!

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