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I miss getting complete factory sets for Christmas. I still have all 660 cards from 1990 Score Football neatly sealed in the box. It’s worth about $10.
I miss not being able to afford a 1989 Score Barry Sanders Rookie Card.
I miss buying pack after pack of 1995 SP hoping to pull a Ki-Jana Carter or Curtis Martin RC with the gold foil.
I miss when jersey cards came one in 25 kagillion packs. My first jersey card was a 1999 Upper Deck Jerseys of Cade McNown.
I miss thinking the Nolan Ryan Rookie Card was the coolest card of all time.
I miss really wanting to peel the film off of the 1995 Finest cards. I never did.
I miss Action Packed.
I miss saving two months of my allowance to buy Ken Griffey Jr.’s Upper Deck Rookie Card. (I think I paid $50 for it when I was 11.)
I miss putting 25-dollar cards in 1-inch screw-downs.
I miss thinking that maybe, just maybe, the Joe Montanan Heroes Autograph would be in my box of 1991 Upper Deck. I still have that box—unopened. I heard a story of someone pulling two in one pack!
I miss being wrong on Curtis Ennis, but being right on Terrell Davis.
I miss saving all of my Emmitt Smith Becketts.
I miss taking the same Rangers and Cowboys cards to the games over and over, hoping to get them signed.
I miss Wild Card.
I miss being proud of owning every 1991 Pudge Rodriguez Rookie Card—even minor league and update cards.
I miss keeping my “better” cards in my parents’ lockbox at the bank. Let’s see, there was the Griffey UD, the David Robinson Hoops, the Troy Aikman Score (signed!) and the Roger Clemens Donruss RC.
I miss collecting Will Clark.
I miss settling for the Peyton Manning and Randy Moss Topps Chrome RCs because there was no way I could afford the SP Authentics.
That’s all … oh, and the Santa Claus Pro set card … and the Michael Jordan hologram card … and the Diamond Kings puzzles … I miss those too.
I’d like to know: What do you miss?
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Beckett Hockey, Hockey, NHL, Rick Tocchet
Good grief. The NHL can’t even do a gambling scandal right.
Where’s the disgraced superstar? The mob ties? The point shaving? The extravagant lifestyle financed by ill-gotten earnings? The glamorous but morally flawed dames?
Alright, expecting the dames was probably too much, but a couple of well-turned ankles would have added a little zazz to today’s snoozer of a newser at which NHL commissioner Gary Bettman closed the book, at least for the moment, on the Rick Tocchet gambling scandal.
In the end, as Bettman offered repeatedly for emphasis, it was all just a tempest in a teapot, much ado about nothing. Well, not exactly nothing. Tocchet, the Phoenix Coyotes associate coach-in-exile, did plead guilty to charges of promoting gambling and conspiracy to promote gambling after being nabbed for facilitating betting on college football and basketball. Hardly the sort of extracurricular a sports league is looking for on an employee’s resume, but apparently not an ender, either. Especially in comparison to how his transgressions originally were painted, which made his actual misdeeds look like misdemeanors. Did I mention that already? Must be the Bettman in me.
Okay, it’s been said before, but the two already have so much in common–they’ve both won NBA Championships, they’re both Upper Deck exclusives, and they’re both Chicago Bulls…yes, you read that right. Although the trade hasn’t happened yet, it appears to be in the works, and could go down as early as this afternoon.
What this means for the basketball card industry is that we’ll be seeing some of the coolest combo cards that have ever hit the hobby. Imagine dual Chicago Bulls autographs of Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, Dual Exquisite Collection Patch cards–and maybe even dual Bulls Championship tributes. The beauty of the situation is both are Upper Deck exclusive players, so there’s no limit to the number of cool MJ/Kobe combo cards. And I can’t imagine a better thing happening for the hobby.
Michael Jordan Bulls cards are responsible for basketball collectibles’ greatest years–the 1990’s. Kobe Bryant becoming a Chicago Bull will only serve to revive the slow basketball hobby and bring it back to previous years’ highs…let’s keep our fingers crossed!
