Random Cardboard Of The Day:1994 Stadium Club Ring Leader Ronnie Lott

First off, let's take note how odd it is to see him in anything but a 49ers Uniform.

Second, I have been wanting to add one of these inserts for a long time and finally did.

Glad I did.

Now this may become a new set chase.

Random Cardboard Of The Day: 2024 Stadium Club Triumvirates Nickname "Junior" Ken Griffey Jr

Random Card Of The Day:2024 Stadium Club Red Dale Murphy

Random Card Of The Day:2024 Stadium Club Virtusos Of Verlocity Jo Adell

Rodney's Cardboard:1997 Stadium Club Yellow Printing Plate

  Well, now that I am past all of the hard to talk about Rodney Printing plates, I am moving onto two weeks of ones I can have a small discussion about.

Today's printing plate is actually recognized as one. This is from the 1997 Stadium Club set and features Rodney shoving Ray Lewis to the ground. I guarantee this is not something you saw very often when Lewis was on the field.

 

The back of the plate lets us know which one it is. I still have three others to chase. Who knows if they will ever show up.

Thanks again to Wes for this latest add. Quite a nice surprise for the collection.

Comments are always welcomed on these latest adds!

Random Card Of The Day:1995 Stadium Club John Elway

Random Card Of The Day:1998 Stadium Club Terrell Davis

Random Cardboard Of The Day: 1995 Stadium Club John Elway

Christmas Card 16

True Colors

You with those Extreme Corps...don't be confused just remember when...they actually used foil. These cards can make you crazy if you did forget...just look them up...because you know they will be there.

And I will see their True Colors shining through. I will see their True Colors, that's why I love them. So don't be afraid, to look yourself. At their True Colors, they are beautiful.....like a rainbow.

I am sure by now you are ready to actually read this post and not in Cyndi Laupers iconic voice for the song True Colors. No, not Phil Collins remake. Nothing is like an original.

In my last trade with blog reader Oren, he discovered something I never paid attention to before.

The rainbow foil on the Extreme Corps subset in 1995 Stadium Club.

And how much it changes card to card due to the printing process of these.

Some are blue, some are purple, some have red and yellow

 

And some cover all of the colors from the rainbow foil. 

It's quite cool and is almost as if you are collecting a rainbow.

I honestly would have normally just tossed any duplicates into my dupes box and not looked at them for a second glance. 

 

Oren sent plenty of these along with some Transactions foil subset cards that do the same thing.

But, now I am wondering what other Stadium Club foil subsets may spin out unique rainbow cards like these. I know Stadium Club used this kind of foil across multiple 1995 and 1996 products for multiple sports.

Thanks again Oren for giving me an idea for a post today and for these unique cards.

In comments, let me know if you ever noticed the foil on these cards before.

Show Me The WAY!

I told myself I wouldn't TACKLE another Super PC as I did with Rodney Hampton, but, once again, fate hit and here I am.

You can now refer to me as the....CHARLES WAY Super Collector.

Why Charles Way? Well, he was another player I enjoyed watching playing in his five seasons with the Giants. He also has a tie in with Rodney as he was a fullback that blocked for Rodney his first few seasons before taking over for Rodney in 1997 when he was out with an injury. Way went on to rush for 696 yards and had over 1,000 all purpose yards that season. He played okay in 1998 but knee injuries forced him to retire in 2000. Once again a player that had potential and who knows how far he could have gone.

Regardless of that, he ended up in my collection and I have come a long ways in the last few months with it.

Also, been keeping track of my collection and stats on TCDB.

Here was the humble beginnings which put me at 8th place to start.

A few adds moved me up to 5th

Then a huge mail day jumped me up to first.

Then more...

And the domination continued....

 

And finally here is where I am at (since the typing of this four more cards have shown up)

I currently own 31.5% of all Charles Way cards out there. With a minimal 251 to chase, it shouldn't be too hard to find most. However, some are very, very expensive and some others being 90's cards will be even harder to chase down.

Here is a visual of my Way collection thus far,

 

(class 3 Black Label)

1998 Skybox Rubies)

(in-person auto that came via a friend)

(Way only has 3 autographs total)

(My first and only 1/1!)

(Rave and Super Rave!!!!)

(gold parallel /25)

(my favorite cards of them all, Legacy collections /100)

Pretty solid collection I am proud of so far. Still a WAY to go, but I will show any new additions as I go on. Maybe do a segment similar to the Rodney Hampton one.

If any of you have any Charles Way you don't see above, as the Styx sung, SHOW ME THE WAY!!!

More Eli's Arrived Part 2

As I posted the other day, there was even more Eli's to post about from my latest trade with Shane from Cheap Wax Wednesday fame. 

Today is the biggest chunk and most exciting of the group, not that all Eli adds aren't exciting.

Let's take a look at the second half of my Eli additions,

Dual Relic from Gridiron Kings

Beam me up Eli!

Eli was a Gamer, admit it.

He was a Field General on and off the field

And my most favorite of the group was a card I wanted for years.....

2004 Fleer Rookie Throwback Threads leather helmet relic

AWWWWWWWEEEEEEEESOMMMMMMMMMME

Thanks again to Shane for the sweet Eli's. More Giants to come from my trade with Shane soon.