1996 Laserview Base HAVES
7,8,9,11,17,23,24,28,29,30,34,39
7,8,9,11,17,23,24,28,29,30,34,39
Showing posts with label Jeff Blake. Show all posts
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Monday, September 14, 2020
Monday, April 13, 2020
Outbreak
The definition of Outbreak is "the sudden or violent start of something unwelcome, such as war, disease, etc."
It's something that is going on now and something that happened in the 1995 hit movie, Outbreak. In that movie, a dangerous airborne virus threatens civilization-hmm think on that-and it spreads through a small Californian town and not the world like we are experiencing today. The movie stars Dustin Hoffman, whatever happened to him by the way, who is a contagious disease expert along with his ex-wife (Rene Russo) that the town brings in to help stop the spread of the disease. The movie also has Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey and Donald Sutherland.
To me, not all outbreaks can be taken negatively as you can turn the word into something positive with the right wording. Between 1996-1999, the hobby experienced an outbreak of creativity like no other. We had acetate autographs, cards that made players move for seconds of time, cards in cans, cards in tins, one card high end packs and coins and cards together as one hobby just to name some.
It was a great time to be alive as a card collector watching the hobby boom.
One of my outbreaks at the time was an addiction to cards and coins. They weren't worth much then and really aren't now, but I just loved it. I wasn't even a coin collector but occasionally you could see me adding a wheat penny here and there when I found one.
I actually even spent the time to put the coins in the card slots if I had the right player and coin that matched up. A lot of the time that wasn't the case as there was two cards per pack, one with a slot and one not and one coin for retail which is what I bought. Hobby had two coins and three cards per pack so your odds was better that way.
With all of my recently found extra time, I have been scouring eBay for some packs in the last few months when a bumped into a listing of a completed 1996 30 bronze football coin set in a special Pinnacle Coin binder. The set was listed for $3.99 starting bid and $6.99 shipping. It also had a make offer option which I always take the option on. So I offered the starting bid and the seller immediately accepted. One would guess that they either needed money or wanted to make sure this was gone.
You know, I buy junk.
Here is the front of the binder and the backside of the first half of coins.
Open it up and you find an outbreak of the 30 coin set that spreads across two pages
Some pretty big names mixed in including Troy Aikman, Jim Kelly, John Elway, Brett Favre (and for me Kerry Collins and Mark Brunell)
And Emmitt Smith, Steve Young and Jerry Rice just to name a few. The names alone made the purchase worthwhile to me.
Here is the final side.
I think this is a pretty unique item for my 90's PC and not something I ever see pop up. And really I haven't ever seen this item. It may not be packs to open to take me down memory lane like I had hoped, but I was still very happy with my purchase.
Outbreak was a great movie for it's time and may have to give it another watch since it has been awhile and I don't fully remember it that well. I know the timing of that isn't great with everything going on, but I just gotta remember the good guys win in the end. I foresee that at some point for us as well.
Before I close, I must point out there really hasn't ever been a creative outbreak in the hobby like that since 1999, but there has been a outbreak of positivity in the hobby as of recent. Whether its on Twitter with all of the giveaways, pay it forwards or Panini simply giving away boxes and packs or it's also bloggers helping each other out and doing free card threads almost every day for some. As the saying goes, we are all in this together and it's great to see in this hobby community that we all have each others backs when we are down.
It's something that is going on now and something that happened in the 1995 hit movie, Outbreak. In that movie, a dangerous airborne virus threatens civilization-hmm think on that-and it spreads through a small Californian town and not the world like we are experiencing today. The movie stars Dustin Hoffman, whatever happened to him by the way, who is a contagious disease expert along with his ex-wife (Rene Russo) that the town brings in to help stop the spread of the disease. The movie also has Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey and Donald Sutherland.
To me, not all outbreaks can be taken negatively as you can turn the word into something positive with the right wording. Between 1996-1999, the hobby experienced an outbreak of creativity like no other. We had acetate autographs, cards that made players move for seconds of time, cards in cans, cards in tins, one card high end packs and coins and cards together as one hobby just to name some.
It was a great time to be alive as a card collector watching the hobby boom.
One of my outbreaks at the time was an addiction to cards and coins. They weren't worth much then and really aren't now, but I just loved it. I wasn't even a coin collector but occasionally you could see me adding a wheat penny here and there when I found one.
I actually even spent the time to put the coins in the card slots if I had the right player and coin that matched up. A lot of the time that wasn't the case as there was two cards per pack, one with a slot and one not and one coin for retail which is what I bought. Hobby had two coins and three cards per pack so your odds was better that way.
With all of my recently found extra time, I have been scouring eBay for some packs in the last few months when a bumped into a listing of a completed 1996 30 bronze football coin set in a special Pinnacle Coin binder. The set was listed for $3.99 starting bid and $6.99 shipping. It also had a make offer option which I always take the option on. So I offered the starting bid and the seller immediately accepted. One would guess that they either needed money or wanted to make sure this was gone.
You know, I buy junk.
I think this is a pretty unique item for my 90's PC and not something I ever see pop up. And really I haven't ever seen this item. It may not be packs to open to take me down memory lane like I had hoped, but I was still very happy with my purchase.
Outbreak was a great movie for it's time and may have to give it another watch since it has been awhile and I don't fully remember it that well. I know the timing of that isn't great with everything going on, but I just gotta remember the good guys win in the end. I foresee that at some point for us as well.
Before I close, I must point out there really hasn't ever been a creative outbreak in the hobby like that since 1999, but there has been a outbreak of positivity in the hobby as of recent. Whether its on Twitter with all of the giveaways, pay it forwards or Panini simply giving away boxes and packs or it's also bloggers helping each other out and doing free card threads almost every day for some. As the saying goes, we are all in this together and it's great to see in this hobby community that we all have each others backs when we are down.
Saturday, October 12, 2019
Episode 12:1997 Fleer Ultra Football Pack Rip With Insert Find!
Landing in as one of my Top 3 Favorite Fleer Ultra designs all time, 1997 Fleer Ultra was always a fun rip and when I saw the price of a pack I could get, I went and got it.
So let's check out the rip.
Each retail pack of 1997 Fleer Ultra football came with 6 cards. This pack I landed for $1.50 so that was pretty sweet.
Pack odds on the back
Let's check out that sweet design in a pack full of 90's names you heard often.
Rashaan Salaam.
Jeff Blake
Steve McNair
Brad Johnson
Jason Dunn
Million Dollar Moments bonus card. Think this was a contest of some sort. I just collected the cards.
And the boom, a Darnell Autry Rookies insert that fell 1:3 packs. Out of the five packs I bought, this was the only insert pull. It's not like today's packs where you found an insert every pack.
Well that was fun and I already have my eye on more. I considered building the 1997 Fleer Ultra base set but not sure yet. That would be quite the project.
If you were at all curious what my top design favorites for Ultra were as I mentioned above, here they are in order.
So let's check out the rip.
Let's check out that sweet design in a pack full of 90's names you heard often.
Well that was fun and I already have my eye on more. I considered building the 1997 Fleer Ultra base set but not sure yet. That would be quite the project.
If you were at all curious what my top design favorites for Ultra were as I mentioned above, here they are in order.
- 1995 Fleer Ultra
- 1998 Fleer Ultra
- 1997 Fleer Ultra
Saturday, July 7, 2018
Michael's A Rising Star
In posting the Sets Of My Childhood series I was hoping that it would lead to some trading and some set help. What I wasn't expecting was it to lead to completed set.
Some of the sets I was hoping to complete faster than others. 1995 Pinnacle Clear Shots, 1995 Fleer Ultra Rising Stars and 1995 Summit Ground Zero parallel set were my top hopes to narrow down fast. That Ground Zero one may be close to impossible to do but I want to badly try.
Fortunately for me, one of the three was knocked down fast after I posted it.
My buddy @JGfan24ever once again pulled off another trade with me, this time he did the unexpected. He picked up the last seven cards in my set and we worked out a fast trade soon afterwards.
So here are the last seven cards in my 1995 Fleer Ultra Rising Stars set. These cards are acetate printed with a space appeal. They were not the easiest finds in terms of 90s cards. They fell 1:37 packs which was more than one-per-box and at one time the Marshall Faulk in the set was my biggest pull of the 90's.
The set consists of a group of interesting players. You have superstars like Brett Favre and Marshall Faulk. Some decent guys like Drew Bledsoe and others you are waiting for them to rise to be a star.
Drew Bledsoe
The Bus! 
Bam Bam Morris 
Eric Turner 
Ben Coates in a throwback uni 
Natrone Means I always liked. He was a solid underrated back 
Jeff Blake 
And here is that beautiful nine card set all together by number. 
Some of the sets I was hoping to complete faster than others. 1995 Pinnacle Clear Shots, 1995 Fleer Ultra Rising Stars and 1995 Summit Ground Zero parallel set were my top hopes to narrow down fast. That Ground Zero one may be close to impossible to do but I want to badly try.
Fortunately for me, one of the three was knocked down fast after I posted it.
My buddy @JGfan24ever once again pulled off another trade with me, this time he did the unexpected. He picked up the last seven cards in my set and we worked out a fast trade soon afterwards.
So here are the last seven cards in my 1995 Fleer Ultra Rising Stars set. These cards are acetate printed with a space appeal. They were not the easiest finds in terms of 90s cards. They fell 1:37 packs which was more than one-per-box and at one time the Marshall Faulk in the set was my biggest pull of the 90's.
The set consists of a group of interesting players. You have superstars like Brett Favre and Marshall Faulk. Some decent guys like Drew Bledsoe and others you are waiting for them to rise to be a star.
Drew Bledsoe
The Bus!
Bam Bam Morris
Eric Turner
Ben Coates in a throwback uni
Natrone Means I always liked. He was a solid underrated back
Jeff Blake
And here is that beautiful nine card set all together by number.
A big thanks goes out to Michael for helping me finish up one of these sets and especially one of the top ones I was aiming for.
You can check out all of my Sets Of My Childhood needs, HERE.
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