Spreading The Awareness

I can't believe we are in November already. Most of the leaves around me have fallen and we have already seen on and off snow. Not much has accumulated yet, fortunately, but there has been enough to alarm me that it's coming. The temps have also went from 80's to barely touching 40's and that's on a warm day. Fall is turning over to winter day by day.

I would have felt like October never existed if it hadn't been for Collecting Cutch blog. Every October he hosts a Breast Cancer Awareness month with posts full of pink cards and pretty ladies displaying what the awareness is all about. I had to check out his posts daily of course.

I appreciate the work that he puts in on the blog for the month to raise awareness for this great cause. My Mother In Law had Breast Cancer a few years ago and luckily survived chemo and radiation treatments. She is doing great today but many don't survive or feel great after. Cancer is a very ugly disease.

For commenting and joining in on his posts, Cutch recently passed along some cards for my support. It to me wasn't even about the cards, it was more about supporting his cause. But, cards are a bonus here.

Like a calling card with any of his packages, he always graciously tosses in some Cutch cards. Surprisingly I didn't have any of these.

He also surprised me with a couple of NY Giants items I didn't have either.

This small set of 2011 Topps NFL Crucial Catch Giants cards. I have never seen these before. Pretty cool. They came in a sealed pack and I plan on keeping them that way.

And then this amazing Odell Beckham Jr featuring a pink towel swatch. Once again, it's the crucial catch campaign. You can also tell this by the Breast Cancer awareness symbol in the corner and the fact that Odell is making a "catch"

Thank you for the prizes Cutch and for your awareness every October.

If you haven't checked out his blog and what I am talking about, go HERE and look at every post in October. You will have a good time.

Breakin Wax:2014 Topps Football Hobby Box

While mostly everyone was at The National, I took a look at dacardworld searching for deals.

One of those deals was the Deal Of The Day which happened to be a hobby box of 2014 Topps Football. An amazing price at $27 and I am always in need of Odell Beckhams, so I snatched it up.

Now it's time to break it!

This won't be my usual episode of Breakin Wax with breaking down the product as a whole, as this time I am mainly focusing on the pulls since I have already done a couple Breakin Wax of this product.

Up first, I bring the boom. At least to me it is. It also happens to be the best pull of the box, a GOLDell Beckham. I mean a Odell Beckham gold parallel. The gold parallels fall at1:10.

A Reggie Bush is amongst my gold parallels as well.

Pulled a Salute To Service that falls1:52 of Vernon Davis.

Then found a Pink, that falls at 1:42, of Marvin Jones.

I continued my luck of parallels with this black of Brett Keisel. They fall 1:63.

And finally my hit of the box was Michael Egnew. Ooooops sorry, seems that TE's are a normal pull in boxes and to no surprise I pulled a relic. I have yet to hit an autograph in a box of Topps.

Overall, not a bad break, not a great break. But the cost was so low I had to take a shot. My happiest pull was obviously the Gold Beckham. The rest of the break wasn't great. But I also did get a base rookie of Odell amongst the other top ones so can't complain too much.