The Card I Love This Valentines Day

Love is in the air today.

And if you are dating or married, you hopefully remembered what today is. It's Valentines Day. The day your spouse or loved one is probably expecting something from you that shows them how much you love them. Whether that be a date to a fancy restaurant (my wife and I don't do that anymore as prices are jacked and the menus are cut short), chocolates, a huge bear that doesn't fit in your car or simply some flowers and a card like I do.

Not the actual flowers I am getting her, just our "table decoration" used for example. Believe me, don't buy a woman fake flowers.

The one thing I have learned in over fifteen years of marriage, it's not always the biggest flashiest things that bring the most joy. Something very simple works as well. Take my advice if you haven't already figured that out.

Simple is the word I would also use with my latest big trade I did with @90sNicheFBCards as we both simply just sent each other things we really liked and made probably the easiest agreement in a trade I have ever done. No back and forth on prices, values and cards, it was a simple, "yup looks good."

I won't get to all of our trade goodies today, but there was lots to show that I am saving for another day. Today I am simply taking one card out of it that I wanted to show off on Valentine's Day that I immediately fell in love with at first sight.

Picture a Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan kinda scene in You've Got Mail when I pulled out this card of my box....

 

 

"I wanted it to be you. I wanted it to be you so badly."

 

A 2017 Panini Phoenix Nike Swatch 1/1 Evan Engram autograph card. 

 

My first ever Nike swatch. It's not just because it is a rare gadgety card on why I love it, the design is really sharp, the swatch is cool and the layout is well done. It was quite the Valentine's Day card. Well, if it was red it would fit the theme more but Giants blue works better for me.

So now I want to challenge the rest of you in the blogging community. I want to see which card you LOVE this Valentines Day and why on your blogs. As for the rest of the non blogger readers, just tell me in comments yours.

I wish you all a day full of love and happiness. And chocolate, yes, who doesn't love some chocolate?

My 2016 NFL Notes And CONTEST!!

Wanna win this card? Well, going to try and give it away again.

With a terrible showing by the Giants yesterday, this card still remains in my hands and I know someone wants to own this of a possible future superstar.

Before the contest announcement, first MY 2016 NFL NOTES:

As many of you know, I am very passionate about football. I am in two fantasy leagues finishing 5th in my personal one just missing the playoffs by needing one Beckham catch. Finished 3rd in the TSCP league with just a Terrence West start away instead of playing Forte like I did. First time ever not winning or being in the championship for those.

I am in 3 NFL Pick Em leagues. Never won in the 2 involving cards all year and finished my season with the worst yet in both. Even the local one I just won in Week 17, scored 14/16 games and 3 points off, I am going to finish over 100th place out of 300. Very poor but at least I won in it for the first time ever in my 10th year of entering. Free pizza for me!

My Giants finished 11-5 and made the playoffs. They got a pretty decent young team going into next year to add more pieces to. Just need a TE and definitely some oline. Could be a great 2017. #GiantsPride

And finally, my passion for football runs so deep, I SO BADLY WANT THE PATRIOTS AND COWBOYS to lose that I am giving the card, possibly more, away above to celebrate when and if they do. It would be the worst possible Super Bowl match-up for me if they both make it. I can't find a team to route on in that case and would hope for a tie. I will give two cards away if they both lose this weekend to two different winners.

So how do you win the card above for now.

Instead of a random, I just want you to give me a guess in comments the numbering of this card out of 3250. You can just copy and paste from last weeks answers if you want, but you must comment on this post in order to be entered. A Patriots or Cowboys loss and the person closest to the numbering without going over will be the winner of the Bosa!

 

Other quick rules:

1. ***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.
2. Card may be shipped PWE. I like to forewarn on this.
3. Winner will be chosen IF the Cowboys or Patriots lose and the winner will be chosen by the person closest to guess of the numbering of Bill Mueller card /3250 without going over.
4. 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.
5. Contest starts today, ends on January 13th 2017 by 11:59 pm e.t.. Winner will be announced in a separate post on January 16th 2017 IF either lose.

There will be another contest if only one loses, but this will carry over if both win.

Winner Of Joey Bosa Autographed Memorabilia

Well, well, well.

I don't see my timeline on Twitter or Facebook full of Dak or Zeke talk this morning. Or the expected Cowboys Super Bowl run...maybe there is a reason for that....oh yes, that's right....#GiantsWin.

It was a great game to stay up for, though I am needing a coffee injection today, but it was worth it. I know a lot football fans like an offensive showdown, but give me a defensive one like that any day. Both teams played really well on defense and the game came down to the wire as expected. The Giants simply just made one more play than Dallas. Wonder how round 3 will go if they meet up again in the playoffs??

Anyways, since the Giants won that means someone wins this....

 

And since the score of the game was so low and that everyone was over in their predictions, I had to fire up the ole randomizer and make it fair. So here's the winner after my usual 7 randoms.... 

There were 25 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1. Matthew Chrisman
2. Ben Hansen
3. JoshuaSchleicher0411
4. william cooley
5. @EEFFL
6. RAZ
7. Brad Jorgensen
8. Jafronius
9. M BOYLAN
10. Highlight Heaven
11. Trevor P
12. Anthony Pizzo
13. Sam Zozaya
14. Cameron Towe
15. Nick Frank
16. hudsonfan15
17. Bryan McCarter
18. Tread Willis
19. Cody Cook
20. Tracy LeVeaux
21. Jamie B.
22. Scott N.
23. krsp370
24. Ryan Sawyer
25. @JGfan24ever

IP: 72.169.80.253
Timestamp: 2016-12-12 14:26:19 UTC
You have randomized this list 7 times.

Congrats to Matthew Chrisman on winning. Please email sportcardcollectors@hotmail.com withing 48 hours to claim or it will be re-given away. Please also share your winnings when they arrive so I can continue to host contests like this.

Thanks to everyone who entered and please be on the lookout for more contests ahead including a biggie that will be announced on Sunday.

REVIEW:2016 Panini Phoenix Football

Panini Phoenix is a new product added to the football card world that brings lots of rainbow shine appeal for those who enjoy shiny objects. I mean what collector doesn't??!

Let's see how my first rip of the product went.

In every box of 2016 Panini Phoenix football is12 Packs along with 5 Cards Per Pack. Boxes are currently running around $110. Look for 3 autograph or memorabilia cards along with 9 inserts or parallels per box! You should also find at least six rookie cards as well.

The base set is very colorful. What I find intriguing is what the base cards are made out of. They are thin, but heavy. They seem to be on cardboard but plastic too. Somewhat similar to Collectors Edge base. 

The base set is 200 cards deep with players of today, tomorrow and yesterday.

This kinda sets itself up for parallels. Those include Red and Pink unnumbered versions. Numbered Orange (#’d to 99), Yellow (#’d to 25) and Green (#’d to 10) versions; Blue and Printing Plate versions are numbered to only one.

Pink Rookies #/299, Orange #/99, Yellow #/25, Green #/10, Blue 1/1, and Printing Plates 1/1.

Here is the start to a Keanu Neal rainbow just in my one box.

The inserts follow the theme of the base with shiny and parallels. 

Watchmen you will find Red #/399, Orange #/299, Yellow #/99, Green #/10, and Blue 1/1.

Streaking Success have Red #/399, Orange #/299, Yellow #/99, Green #/10, and Blue 1/1.

Adrenaline Rush reminds me of something I saw in the 90's, maybe from UD. Their parallels include Red #/349, Orange #/299, Yellow #/99, Green #/10, and Blue 1/1.

Rookie Rising look pretty cool with just a basic design and have Red #/349, Orange #/299, Yellow #/99, Green #/10, and Blue 1/1 versions.

 

Now onto my pulls. They look spectacular on the printing technology.

My first hit is this Jason Witten /5 Patch. You can also see a small blue line from the jersey as well off to the right. It's the green parallel version. There are also Orange #/25, Prime Yellow #/10, and Prime Blue 1/1.

My next hit is a jersey auto rookie card of beast Joey Bosa.

My final hit was a redemption. Bleh. But it is of Bears rookie dominant running back Jordan Howard so it's still a solid hit. I believe it will look like the Bosa above.

Other hits not found in my box include, ROOKIES HOT MATERIALS VAPOR JET:, TRIPLE PATCH AUTOGRAPHS, VETERAN AUTOGRAPH MATERIALS, and RETIRED PATCHES.

Overall, a solid box in my opinion. Product looks good from top to bottom and despite pulling a redemption, I hope to bust another box and possibly see this product return for 2017.

I also think those who like to put together player rainbows will have a blast doing it with this product.

By the way, make sure you thank Panini America for this review box and for the future giveaway. Check out their site for products like this one and others. Also give an extra thanks to Tracy Hackler and give him a Twitter follow too!

Stay tuned for an upcoming giveaway for a chance to score this card: