Random Cardboard Of The Day:1996-1997 Upper Deck Rookie Exclusives Todd Fuller

My First Puchase On COMC

I know, I know.

While the rest of you buy and sell on COMC, I have yet to experience anything about the site. Mostly because I don't have the funds and I don't sell cards to get any. It's a lose all situation.

But, about a month ago, I entered a contest on the COMC Facebook page for a $20 gift card and won!Whoa funds! I could finally see what the talk was all about.

So I went to the COMC website and made myself an account for them to deposit the $20 into. Once the money was there. It was shopping time.

There was many cards to choose from but I knew I would tackle the Rodney Hamptons first and see how many I could get. From the looks of it, three. But, I needed to figure out how to add them into a cart or how to purchase them using the credit that had been deposited.

After a couple time walk through with @Jake1725, I was finally able to get things figured out and found the site much easier to use afterwards. I was not only able to snag the three Rodney Hamptons, which I will show off at some point in his own segment, but I was able to help some set needs as well. Prices are SOOOOOO MUCH more affordable on the website than on eBay through COMC where I have wasted funds in the past on.

Here were my other pickups,

Tyrone Wheatley Summit Ground Zero. How did I not already have this one?!

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Bam Morris Offensive Weapons 1995 Ground Zero

Darnay Scott Ground Zero

Curtis Conway Ground Zero

I could have kept going with the Ground Zero but decided to look at other sets needs. I realized I was only three away from my 1995 Summit Rookie Summit set and would you look at that, they had them and had them where I could use the rest of the funds except 30 cents to grab them with.

NICE.

Todd Collins

Kevin Carter

And Slash Stewart. Happy to finally see this set done.

Well, there you  have it minus some Rodney Hamptons coming up in future posts.

I found most of the prices reasonable, I liked the Make Offer option on the site which I did put to use for the Rodney's, and combined shipping no matter how much you buy is always a winner.

Hopefully down the road I will be able to buy more from there when I get more funds to do so with.

How about you guys? What was your first purchase on COMC? Do you buy/sell on there?

Blast From The Past:1995 Playoff Prime Football

In 1999, a flick with Brendan Fraser and Alicia Silverstone called Blast From The Past came out. It was about a scientist named Calvin Webber who was played by Christopher Walken, that took his pregnant wife in a deep underground fallout shelter in 1962 when he thought a nuclear war was imminent. During that time, their son Adam played by Fraser (who seemed to had been in every late 90's movie) was born and was exposed to only the culture of 1962 in the shelter such as the music and TV shows of the time. Life was accustomed to not being at the surface. 

Fast forward 35 years later, their supplies and food was running low so someone would have to come above ground and take a risk to get new products. That was supposed to be Calvin, up until he was ill from stress from his one visit to the surface. So his son Adam would have to venture out in a world he had never met.....

This segment takes a look at products that may have been hidden in a underground fallout shelter for over 20 years and now just coming back out to be rediscovered....by me. Guess you can call me Adam even though my name is Matt. These are products I opened when I was first collecting and is a Part Of My Past, but may not have a memory or a Origins story to attach to them. Most products I post on here will, but some won't and those will be covered in this new segment.These products will be between the years of 1995-1999 only.

Let's just hope my experience with these breaks is better than Adams first visit to the surface.

So let's take a Blast From The Past with a one pack break of 1995 Playoff Prime Football!

I didn't open more than a pack of this product, mainly because Playoff was limited in my area as opposed to Topps and Score, but I did get to experience it. It was in 1996 when Playoff became more prevalent in my area.

There was a lot of great inserts to find in here including the Pigskins Previews printed on a leather surface. I had high hopes so let's see if they stayed.

Carl Pickens was best known for the Bengals in which he was underrated as a WR. Played there for 7 seasons and made two Pro Bowls.

Derrick Alexander played for 4 teams in 8 seasons.

Natrone Means is probably best remembered with the Chargers, but I didn't get any interest in him til he was on the Jags. He played for four teams in 7 seasons.

Raghib Rocket Ismail was a speedy WR. He played for four teams in 10 seasons. He was best known for him college play more than the NFL.

Bennett was a dominant LB who played mainly for the Bills. But, 4 teams in 13 seasons overall. He was also a 5 time Pro Bowler.

Krieg played for 18 seasons and 6 teams. Best known for his Lions times with me. He was a 3x Pro Bowler.

Fletcher played 8 seasons for the team that drafted him, the Chargers. Doesn't have a whole lot to show for his career other than staying with the one team as a RB.

Collins was supposed to take over for Jim Kelly when he stepped away from the game, but didn't live up to those expectations in Buffalo only last two seasons there. Instead he went on to 3 other teams in 15 seasons.

Well, I got this pack for roughly $1 so not much to lose here. More of a gain. Not a great pack in terms of players, but not a terrible rip for the memories of some of the players and ones I collected.

Stay tuned for more time travel breaks that have come from under the bunkers!