Grady's Giants

A few times every year I get sent a huge box of inserts, parallels and team cards from Blog Reader Grady M. Grady has been a good friend of this blog, Twitter and my Facebook page for many, many years.

He recently sent me another box of goodies that covered all of the areas I mentioned above, but for today, I am just tackling the NY Giants portion of the box.

First up, a LT Green Prizm Parallel.

Next is a Daniel Bellinger Prizm silver rookie. This is my first Bellinger Prizm card. I think this guy has a lot of potential and with Waller alongside him, they could make quite the dangerous duo.

I like Prizm and Optic Parallels, but there is just something about Select that may put it above those two products. I think it's because Select uses actual photography in the backgrounds.

Watch out NFL, a second year healthy version of this guy could be very scary.

Mosaic Green? I hate telling the differences in Mosaic but love the looks. This is my boy Daniel Bellinger again.

Glad to keep you a Giant Barkley Green Elite Parallel.

This is just the beginning show off of this really fun box of goodies. There is plenty more to come so stay tuned for that.

Thoughts on today's cards welcomed in comments.

More 2021 Playoff Adds

This year's 2021 Playoff football product had six NY Giants in its base card set excluding the rookies. I had already found the first three in Daniel Jones, Saquon Barkley and Evan Engram but was missing the final three until today.

After opening a couple of fat packs, I was able to piece the other three together,

Lawrence Taylor who possibly is the greatest defensive player ever.

Darius Slayton who had great chemistry and played amazing his rookie year has dropped off some. Hopefully he will continue to be a Giant and pick up his game this year.

Final card I needed was the Giants big offseason add last year in Kenny Golladay. He didn't quite do what the Gmen had hoped but maybe this year with new coaches and a new look on the offense things will be different.

I am still in need of a couple rookies, all of the inserts and all of the parallels except one card. It's not easy to chase all of them as a team collector but I will chip away what I can when I can.

Thoughts on today's additions welcomed in comments.

More 2021 Playoff Adds

This year's 2021 Playoff football product had six NY Giants in its base card set excluding the rookies. I had already found the first three in Daniel Jones, Saquon Barkley and Evan Engram but was missing the final three until today.

After opening a couple of fat packs, I was able to piece the other three together,

Lawrence Taylor who possibly is the greatest defensive player ever.

Darius Slayton who had great chemistry and played amazing his rookie year has dropped off some. Hopefully he will continue to be a Giant and pick up his game this year.

Final card I needed was the Giants big offseason add last year in Kenny Golladay. He didn't quite do what the Gmen had hoped but maybe this year with new coaches and a new look on the offense things will be different.

I am still in need of a couple rookies, all of the inserts and all of the parallels except one card. It's not easy to chase all of them as a team collector but I will chip away what I can when I can.

Thoughts on today's additions welcomed in comments.

Random Cardboard:2020 Donruss Lawrence Taylor

Can We Win?

It's Game Day against the Washington Football Team (I really can't get used to calling them that). Even though I am not a fan of Thursday Night games, because it's too long til the next game, a game is a game. I just hope my team actually shows up this time.

The Giants opener was like watching them in the preseason, they looked flat. The offense couldn't run the ball and as always the Offensive Coordinator didn't know how to use all of the new weapons in place. The defense, which I thought would be the strength of the team, was actually more of a weakness than the offense as Teddy Bridgewater looked like Tom Brady against them. He completely picked them apart and they got multiple 4th down conversions against what was supposed to be a Top 10 defense. If the offense is flat and the defense keeps playing like this.....well......

I may not have a great team to had watched this past Sunday, but I at least had a great mail day to enjoy of the team. I recently saw @Jaescards tweet out a case break he did of Onyx football and one of the cards he pulled I wanted badly. So I inquired and a trade was born.

Of course the trade went further than just the one card, but that's a good thing.

Some new Kadarius Toneys made their way to me. So far in he -2 yards on the season. Like I said, Garrett has no idea how to utilize these weapons.

Eli Manning base from Onyx...this is just an early teaser for the bigger card.

Some bonuses he tossed in! Nothing wrong with these guys, even Evan Engram who can't seem to catch a break whether it be a ball or being on the field healthy.

Daniel Jones played well, if you forget about the key fumble on a drive deep in Broncos territory.

Here is a Prizm rookie of him as well. Hope he can work on the fumbles...more importantly I wished he would slide so he won't turn it over.

Darius Slayton started the Giants out with a 42 yard great catch, then that was basically the only highligh the offense had in the game. Slayton I still believe is a game changer if you can get the ball into his hands.

Speaking of Game Changers, Kenny Golladay made some great catches on Sunday. He was all he was hyped up to be.

Two more autograph adds to my Kenny G side collection. Hopefully Panini will put one out in his Giants uniform.

And for the key card of this trade....

 

BOOO YEAH! Eli Manning autograph! Anytime I can add an Eli auto I am game for it.

Thanks again to @JaesCards for the trade, hope we can do this again!

As for the Giants tonight, please show up. Please show me something. I don't want to watch another one of those long seasons.

Go Big Blue!

Giant Trade!

It's Sunday which means we are one more week closer to football and I am stoked for this upcoming season. If the Giants can stay healthy in the three preseason games, I feel they can make a push in this division. Of course a lot of that also falls on the shoulders on Daniel Jones who is the quarterback with the most to prove this season.

Recently, I did a HUGE trade with the great Valley Of Cards which gave both of us things we really wanted.

Today, I am showing off all of the Giants cards I landed in the deal while the rest of the trade will be shown off on the other blogs as it doesn't relate to Big Blue.

First up is this banger. A /20 White Sparkle from 2019 Prizm of Giants legend Lawrence Taylor.

Next card continues to grow my Eli Manning PC with this jersey card.

Next, another Evan Engram rookie autograph. I keep hoping he is going to show his full potential (though he made the Pro Bowl last year) but every time that happens, he drops an important catch in a game. I still feel his time is coming and he will explode.

The final card is this Sterling Shepard autograph. One of many I have of the Shep.

Big thanks goes out to my buddy Valley for the trade so I was able to add these Giants to my collection. I look forward to our next trade.

Some great additions today that I will need to update some numbers on overall. Hopefully I can tackle that soon and update my overall Giants collection on here before football season starts and I am overly distracted.

The Rest

I am a week behind on this, which I apologize for, but here are the Birthday Presents that @gmccarthy sent along in our trade for the Lamar Jackson autograph.

Kicking off this post are two Project2020 cards. Last year I didn't have any interest in these cards whatsoever, but as I have added a few to my collection, I am beginning to be a fan. With the Jeter and McGwire adds, I now have 4 of the P2020 cards in my collection with no plans of moving any of them. If anything, I would like to add to them. Especially with 2 I really want off from my Top 20 list in the Project 2020 #199 Don C Mariano Rivera and the Project 2020 #383 Don C Derek Jeter.

Up next, a Donruss Junior rookie. I lost track of how many of these I have in my Griffey PC but I never get tired of seeing them.

LT! New card for my Giants collection.

Lamar Jackson pink Mosaic. This product brought the bling and I believe this is my first Jackson parallel from it.

And to end, a Darius Slayton autograph. This is also a Slayton autograph I didn't have.

Big thanks goes out to @gmccarthy for the birthday gifts. Even though this was our first time talking and our first trade, you nailed it all around with the gifts and trade. Thanks so much! I really hope to trade with you again.

Also if you haven 't traded with him, look at how well it went for me. I suggest you give him a trade!

MMMB:Surprise! I Sent You This!

 

The hobby if full of great people that you either find or find you or maybe is you, at least you hope.

Today's mail day was thanks to @NickKorora who I met on my 90'sSportCards Twitter account. Which go follow if you haven't yet. We have had a few exchanges on and off via trades and just mail days in general and not too long ago I got one from him that was completely unexpected.

He sent a great variety of 90's NY Giants items that started off with a couple of Starting Lineups.

The first one was Super Bowl winning QB Phil Simms, the other, 

is one of the greatest to ever play on defense, LT.

These will make great additions to the mancave. I am still in need of the three Rodney Hampton versions I hope to land at some point.

This was just the beginning of surprises!

He also sent this pack of hockey cards, stay tuned for the break of it and a new series coming up!

A generous stack of NY Giants cards from early 90's to some later and even a couple from now. There was way too many to show off so I narrowed it down to some.

Ike Hillard I didn't have.

LT Hall of Fame silver Prizm

Super Bowl 25 commemorative card

Commemorative Super Bowl 21 card.

LT I didn't have. Can't go wrong adding many LT's.

I have never seen these, really cool card and concept. I would chase a base set if it looked like this.

 

And a couple more Ikes. Can't go wrong with any cards of any player during 1995-1999 for me but when they are Giants it's extra special.

Thanks goes out to @NickKorora for the mail day. Hope to send a surprise or two your way at some point or maybe I had before this actually published.

Giants Cardboard: TCov's Surprise

Twitter is full of friends from near to afar for me. @tcovcards11 is far but one of the nearest friends I have being only a state away.

Once again he hit me with an amazing RAK.

 

Up first are a pair of LT's. One is the base insert Banner Season and the other is Banner Season Green parallel which really stands out. Everyone knows me and shiny cards.

A new Eli for the collection. Trying to continue to grow my Eli collection whenever I can and however I can.

A good mix of G-men in here from both past and present and some Rodney's I did have. But, I don't mind because if they are in better condition then the ones I have they replace those.

 

Two Andre Brown autographs for the Giants autograph collection. I can't remember if I have either of these but will check that out when I start to organize my Giants hits by player. When it comes to Giants hits and relics in my collection, I will take dupes, triples and how many ever.

And finally, I never get sick of seeing this card. I do have multiple copies of it but each copy is unique in it's own way as the autographs are different, as they should be, on each one. This one may be one of the better signed ones I have so it will replace the main one I have for that collection.

Big thanks to @TcovCards11 for the mail day! You're a great friend from near and afar!