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Cardboard Review:2021 Certified Football

I have not been able to open a lot of football products this year, so it's always nice to be able to do so.

With costs above my budget and rarely any retail, my favorite sport to open is becoming as rare as finding an actual collector anymore.

I have seen plenty of baseball though, if only I was still into collecting it deeply.

Anyways, enough of my whining and complaining, let's check out today's break,

In every box of 2021 Certified Football comes 10 packs of 5 cards each. Each box should have one autograph and one memorabilia per. Boxes currently sit at $430.

BASE:

Base cards in Certified have always remained the same front and back I feel. Front has foil, back has one year stats and a write up. There is nothing wrong with that though if it works.

The base set is built up of 100 veterans

and then 100 rookies numbered to 399.

PARALLELS:

The following parallels can be found,

Mirror /299, Bronze /249, Pink /199, Orange /149, Red /99, Blue /75, Teal /50, Gold /25, Purple /10, Green /5, and Black 1/1.

Mirror /299

Orange /149

 

Teal /50

The parallels overall are pretty stunning.

INSERTS:

Most inserts have the following parallels,

Bronze /249, Pink /199, Orange /149, Red /99, Blue /75, Teal /50, Gold /25, Purple /10, Green /5, and Black 1/1.

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Certified Stars has 25 cards to collect

Gold Team has 20 cards to collect

Seal Of Approval has 20 cards to collect as well.

Bronze Seal Of Approval /249

2021 Graffiti. These are sooooooooooooo sweet in person. Not a bad find of Mac Jones.

2021 Graffiti Blue /75

Dark Horses. Really cool look to these.

HITS:

New Generation Patch card

Michael Carter New Generation Patch card.

Shawne Merriman Mirror Signatures /35

 

And my other autograph is a Top 5 NFL pick in Kyle Pitts. This is also a Freshman Fabric Mirror Signatures Pink.

OVERALL THOUGHTS:

I always about the money aspect of things for the first part of my thoughts as a lot of people worry about that first. I would say, the biggest hit of this box was actually the Graffiti Mac Jones insert. The rest were meh. Pitts has a bright future, but collectors really don't seek out tight ends that much. Sort of like an offensive lineman who can catch.

As for the fun aspect, the Graffiti cards are that and the mirror parallels look the best they have in years. The patch cards are nice and it's fun seeing signatures of guys you may not see all the time like the Merriman. The checklist for those signatures is full of names like that.

In comments today, let me know your thoughts on this product.

PACK WARS EPISODE 5

It's back and back with a fury in the latest Pack Wars post. There may be quite a few of these coming up so hope you have been enjoying this series, I am also trying to use up some of my backlogged posts.

Today it's the battle of chromed up Panini products, let's check it out.

 VS 

We will go with the older product of the two and see how the Optic goes,

 

(PC Love card)

(imagine the value on the Stidham before they drafted Mac Jones)

TJ Watt silver

Ryan Finley relic

Now the Prizm.

(Cooper Silver)

(Not bad on the Evans)

 

(Best two rookie pulls from Prizm this year, well last year)

Now it's time to hear your vote on which break was better. The Optic had a hit, but the Prizm was lacking theirs. Optic had stronger base cards, but Prizm had better rookies.

Let's see where you sway in comments!

PACK WARS: EPISODE TWO

Star Wars, Pack Wars whatever. Just picture the opening scroll through of me rambling and the words coming across the big screen. That alone should get you interested.

Welcome back to another Pack Wars. Today, we pair up two more NFL products.

VS 

It's the crazy $15+ Value Pack war battle. Remember when these were $10 and under? Those were the days.

Let's check out Prestige first,

A PC card! Needed the Saquon Prestige base.

My 2 Sunburst parallels, nothing to brag about. And yes, Dion, I set aside the Raven one :)

Another PC card in JPP and the ever so dominant Derrick Henry

My four rookies, nobody I have heard of.

Next up, Elite.

My pack was loaded with base card talent. Joe Montana, Tom Brady were among the group.

Tom Brady Spellbound Pink.

John Elway pink

And last card, the only rookie from the pack is a Kyle Trask Sp photo variation pink.

I think there seems to be an obvious winner here. But, do I let PC cards do the talking or a pack that had more punch? I will let you decide in comments.

Summer Of Wes Card #6

Breakin' Wax:2020 Playoff Football Blaster Box

Every box of 2020 Playoff football comes with 7 packs of 8 cards per pack. Each box also guarantees one autograph or memorabilia card and each box goes for $20. Don't be fooled by the flippers.

The base card set is built up of 300 cards. The design is okay, I would have rather preferred them leaving off the white squares to reveal more of the action photo.

At the time when I got this in December, I took this picture to point out it was the first card I had seen with the Washington Football Team logo.

Now back to the breakdown of the base set.

It is built up of veterans like Saquon above,

Legends like Steve Largent

And of course rookies like Zack Moss, who was also my best rookie card pull of the box.

There are plenty of parallels to be found as well in Playoff such as Goal Line, Kickoff, Red Zone, 1st Down /99, 2nd Down /49, 3rd Down /25, 4th Down /10, and Touchdown 1/1.

I found two kickoff parallels in my break.

Now onto my favorite part of Playoff, the inserts.

The inserts in Playoff standout with their complete chromed approach. As we all know, with anything Chromed there are parallels.

Playoff offers the following parallels for their inserts, Blue, Pink, Purple, Red, Silver, Gold /10, and Touchdown 1/1.

Behind The Numbers

Call To Arms

Thunder And Lightning

Rookie Wave

Rookie Wave Red (sweet Burrow version as well!)

Here are both side by side

So far, the Burrow parallel was the best find of the blaster. Now onto the hit.

 

Usually these boxes come with relics most of the time, but I lucked out and pulled an autograph of Dezmon Patmon who was a 6th round pick. He only played in one game with no catches.

Not a bad break, the Burrows definitely made the break worth it and finding a couple Giants PC cards helps as well.