We Got One!!

Somehow or another, the football Gods came to save the NY Giants season as they pulled off the upset over the 3-0 LA Chargers with a 21-18 win.

And most of that was because of rookie Quarterback Jaxson Dart who all Giants fans like myself hope will be THE GUY in New York finally after we suffered through so much quarterback pain since Eli Manning retired.

Anyways, here are a few of my most recent Dart additions. I don't have anywhere near what most would consider an "epic" Dart collection, but I have a few solid cards.

 

Dart finished the day throwing for 111 yards and a touchdown along with rushing for 54 yards and another touchdown. The most important stat was the win.

Next week the Giants take on the New Orleans Saints on the road. Hopefully Sunday's win will be a turn of the season.

Dino-Might!

I know many people don't like Leaf Trading cards, but, they are putting out some sweet looking cards. 

And this is coming from someone who normally isn't a fan of theirs either because the cards lack licensing.

But Topps or Panini don't put anything that look this good,

 

Don't tell me these didn't catch your attention.

These are 2023 Wild Card Allumination Dino-Might cards. I almost have the full dinosaur rainbow, just missing the raptor. Hopefully someday I can finish that up and I would like to replace the stegosaurus to match the other ones.

Because my hobby OCD needs it.

What do you guys think? A fan? These meh? Let me know in comments!

Rodney's Cardboard:1992 Wild Card 10-Stripe

 Being someone who didn't really get deep into collecting until 1995, my knowledge of products before that year are a little weak.

So, when I saw all of these "stripe" parallels all over my Rodney checklist it took some time to adjust to figuring out all of them.

But, after some research and some of the answers right on the card front, I think I have it all figured out. 

I know these were randomly inserted and the higher the stripe number, the tougher to find. I also see from the card front which levels and foil colors each one is. I had never noticed that before.

 

Nothing changed too much on each of the backs, it's the fronts that matter.

I am 100 and 20 stripe away from the complete rainbow.

I managed to find this one for under $2, I will take those deals all day long.

Thoughts on comments on this chase and if you have made a similar one welcomed in comments.

Throwpack Thursday:1992 Wild Card Decision

Welcome to the second Throwpack Thursday!

I said I would plug these in when I had time to do so.

Today's pack comes thanks to blog reader Oren who sent me some packs at Christmas time.

With Presidents being celebrated a few days ago, I thought why not keep the celebration with a presidential product.

1992 Wild Card Decision came with 8 cards per pack. Well, mine came with more. The 100-card product covers the candidates, the issues and love for Ross Perot.

In 1992 I wouldn't have opened any of this product as my cares were more about Darkwing Duck than politics. But, now I find it fun and I still really like Darkwing Duck.

Here is how my pack break went.

It started off with Bill Clinton, then came the brick of cards which I could feel from the outside of the pack to begin with.

Lots of sticking.

Pretty cool design, I like it. And I got 9 cards instead of the 8.

Wished the cards hadn't stuck together though. They will still go into the non-sport PC regardless and I will some day need to chase down the White House card.

Let me know in comments if you opened any of these before and your thoughts on them and if you have enjoyed the Throwpack Thursday series thus far.

Until the next time!

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25 Days Of Cardmas Day 24:The Christmas Song

 

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...Jack Frost nipping at your nose...

It's Christmas Eve. 

The night when the man in the red suit loads up his sleigh and visits all of the good boys and girls to give them gifts of joy. Or in real life terms, it's the day where parents are scrambling to get everything wrapped up in time or for the husband who forgets to get their wife a gift is running out to the shops before they close to make sure he gets a gift so his chestnuts are not hung by an open fire the next day for forgetting.

Don't worry, I already have my wife's gifts well in advanced.

 

Today's also the day I show off rest of my collection of NFL Properties cards, still many more to go before I have them all, and share some memory from Christmas Eve's past.

Christmas Eve used to be more fun for me.

Back before my nephew and sister-in-law moved to Tennessee, we would all go to the Christmas Eve church service, then come back to my house for cookies, cocoa, exchange stocking gifts with the in-laws then watch Christmas Vacation. Those memory-making, hysterical experiences I will never forget that we did annually for years.

Now, when they are able to come up for the holidays since they moved, they come two weeks before Christmas and we do things together at that time such as myself making their favorite foods and watching Christmas Vacation.

So now my Christmas Eves are spent pretty quietly at home and probably even more-so this year being the year 2020 where you must avoid people at all costs. Which is okay, this year I think most of us have become pretty accustomed to being at home.

I wanna know now, what are some of your Christmas Eve traditions? Have they changed over the years? What are your plans this year?

Rodney's Cardboard:1993 Wild Card Stripes

One of the harder chases in the 90's for Rodney Hampton, is the darn Wild Card product. There are so many branches of parallels to these things and they are not easy to find either.

Fortunately, a lot of four of those parallels from the 1993 version popped up for Rodney and thanks to @CardpocalypseNC I was able to add them!

These "stripes" parallels are leveled from 5,10,20,50,100,and 1,000. I have no idea for the odds on these or if the higher the number the more rare they are. And the stripes, I don't get. There are technically no stripes on the card and other than a number and change of foil color, there really isn't any difference in these parallels.

LAAAAAAAMMME. But they are needed.

This lot included four of the lower tiered ones

5 Stripe. If you stare long enough you will see the five on the left embedded in the gray area

(I included the card back but all look the same)

10 stripe

20 Stripe

50 Stripe

  

The cards all together. You can see the numbers better in this one.

When it comes to cards like these and sets like this, there is no better relief than to know they are crossed off. I am very thankful for the help by Tim so I don't have to worry about ever finding these again.

How do you guys feel about sets like this? Frustrating? Interesting?

MLB Pick Em:Wild Card Matchup

Okay, here are the picks for MLB Pick Em's Wild Card matchups.

Here are the AL Game for the two teams in the AL Wild Card spot

Minn. Twins
vs
NY Yankees (go yanks)

AL Teams.
Kaiser Cats vs Marty's Angels

Pick the winner, pick the total runs. Tie goes to a random of three times. Only one of you moves on!!!

AL Entries must be in by 8pm Tuesday October 3rd 2017 or you will be eliminated automatically.

Here are the AL Game for the two teams in the NL Wild Card spot

Colorado Rockies
vs
Arizona Dbacks

NL Teams.
John Sharp vs @SteveWrightOne  

Pick the winner, pick the total runs. Tie goes to a random of three times. Only one of you moves on!!!

NL Entries must be in by 8pm Wednesday October 4th 2017 or you will be eliminated automatically.

Two of you will move on to the LDS starting soon!

Random Card On My Desk:1992 Wild Card 5-Stripe Tommy Maddox