Rare Chases

In my latest eBay searches for Rodney Hampton cards to add to my watch list, I recently discovered two that I desperately needed. Two that I had never seen listed before. Two amazing looking cards from one amazing product, 1996 Playoff Illusions.

Luckily I was able to get both, but it took some work to do so.

 

The Spectralusion parallel for XXXI insert in Illusions fell 1:92 packs and luckily my awesome wife grabbed it as an early Birthday present.

  

On the back it tells you what parallel it is.

 

Even tougher to find was the base version that fell 1:192 packs. Wow. This is nothing like today's cards where you pull something 1:192 packs and you find out it's worth $2. These are much, much more rare and prices aren't cheap. Luckily for me my Twitter buddy of a couple years @robrod, even though a die hard Dallas Cowboy fan, helped me acquire and trade the card to me. Pretty solid dude. Thanks man!

I am so glad no other Hampton (I know there must have been another looking at some recent rare card listing of Hampton on COMC) or Georgia collectors stumbled upon these. If they were bought before I got my hands onto them, I may have never seen them again. Like a lot of the printing plates of Hampton I have seen come and go on eBay.

I will be doing a post in the next few weeks with all of my Playoff Illusions Hamptons together as a family and it will show the differences between them. It was a great one year and done product with it's thicker chromed cards and colorful backgrounds. Would be fun to break a box.

Breakin Wax:1996 Playoff Illusions Football Pack

When you combine a Playoff product with the look of Chrome and the feel of Bowman's Best, you are going to grab my attention.

That's something that 1996 Playoff Illusions did.

In every pack of 1996 Playoff Illusions football are 5 cards. Packs currently run on the Jammin JD Sports Cards website for $3 and can be found HERE.

Like I said, the base cards have a chrome/Bowmans Best appeal. They are bursting with color and are very catchy to your eyes.

 

I didn't pull any rookies in my pack but there are some good ones to find like Eddie George and Marvin Harrison, but I did pull a cool insert.

XXXI is an insert that falls 1:12 packs and is die cut across the top. Looks really cool in person. Lucky me as well as I pulled one of my favorite 90's guys in TD. There are really sick parallels to these but at much tougher odds.

 

 

Overall, pulled a cool insert so I am happy. I know many of the collectors today wouldn't be as it's not an autograph or jersey/patch card, but those are most likely the ones that didn't collect in this era where you slowly looked at each card skipping that middle one in case it's an insert. Then revisiting it at the end to see if your excitement will explode. Such a more fun time.