I Play On Team Pinnacle

I bought a ton of 1995 Pinnacle football and never ONCE, NOT ONCE ever pulled a Team Pinnacle from a pack in 1995. And when I say bought a ton, you could probably fill a bathtub of wrappers. That's how hard it was to pull one.

However....

 

Flash forward to last year, and boom, the 1:90 pack pull sat right in my hands after breaking a 36 pack lot. It was definitely worth the wait and finding two of the top QB's in the 90's wasn't a bad thing either.

These were the toughest cards to pull in 1995 Pinnacle football and I think baseball as well.

Just like with many of the projects I start, I feel connected to them. Same went for 1995 Pinnacle Team Pinnacle and the word set gets thrown around quite often by me. So what did I do, I went set chasing.

Two of the rookie RB's from the 1995 draft

Two rookie QB's from the 1995 draft. Collins is a double PC card

 

Who can go wrong with these two on a card??

The fronts of these cards are full on dufex effect and the backs are foil. I have read somewhere recently that there is a double dufex parallel to these that I don't know about. Would be interesting to actually see one.

I haven't gotten too far with this 10 card set as you see above and as always any hobby friend help is appreciated. I know some of you can find things at card shows, sportlots, etc that I don't have access to.

Rodney's Cardboard:1993 Pinnacle Team Pinnacle

Time for another Rodney Hampton show off thanks to Wes

This time we go back before the dufex covered days of Team Pinnacle and look at it's kind of boring origin, though I have always been a fan of the line.

The 1993 Team Pinnacle was a 13 card set, an odd number in a set eats my OCD alive, that features one player from the NFC and it's counterpart in the AFC. They were not easy finds at all falling 1:90 packs. Yikes!

On this card they feature a similar back in Barry Foster for the AFC. I was just glad to have finally knocked this one down. I am starting to accumulate most of the early 90's stuff besides some I don't believe either exist or will be seen.

Countdown to Panini's Father's Day Promo 2013 Begins!

As most know, I am a fan of what Panini America has been doing. And one of my favorite things is their special promotions such as Black Friday and one thats coming up soon in Father's Day. Without an LCS nearby its hard to participate in these promotions at one but luckily last year I was able to participate when I was on vacation (I must also note that there is an online component)

My review of last years promo of the packs I broke can be found here:
http://sportcardcollectors.blogspot.com/2012/06/review-panini-fathers-day-packs.html.

Yesterday Panini revealed some of the base cards (can't wait til they reveal the autographs and memorabilia for this set as well) for this years 44 card set and I am impressed. Panini took classic themes from when I had first started collecting and brought them back for 2013. This really makes me sit back and think about the times I collected with my dad. And I think these designs will do that and that was the plan for this years set by Panini. Whether you were a son or daughter collecting with your dad, or a dad collecting with your son or daughter these designs should bring up those classic collecting memories.

Who didn't have some Studio cards in their collection? This was always unique since the card is all about the player and not so much the field. Its almost like a year book photo on cardboard. I remember trying to complete the set and display them in an album. Makes me want to go and find them now....

 

Dual sided Team Pinnacle returns bringing you back two stars on a piece of cardboard. Brought me back to when I pulled a Ken Griffey Jr version once and thought I had won a million dollars. Still gives me shivers as it was one of my favorite insert pulls for awhile when I was a kid.

 

And who could ever forget Museum Collection. I do wish these were done in the Dufex technology however since thats the way I remember them but I am still very impressed with the design done here. 

Whether young or old, this years Fathers Day set should help give you the extra boost to get out to your LCS and participate (or at least participate in the online version). Not to mention you can use Fathers Day as leverage for why you are buying extra boxes or packs of cards that day.