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One of the best shows on TV is in danger of being cancelled, and it’s YOUR fault!
NBC’s Friday Night Lights is nearing the middle of its second season. If you’re a football fan, and even if you’re not, you should give this show a try. It’s based on the best-selling book of the same title written by H.G. Bissinger more than 10 years ago. The show follows the fictitious, football-crazed Texas town of Dillon and its historic Panthers high school football team.
Yes, the plot lines are often over-the-top, but what show doesn’t have that? As someone who played 5A Texas high school football, I can say that there are some true realisms here. The emotion is as real as it gets. Every hug seems real. Every fight looks genuine. Some scenes get so tense that I want to crawl under my carpet. The chemistry between most of the actors oozes off the screen. Oh, and then there’s sweet Lyla Garrity–the highly attractive head cheerleader/good girl.
Why is such a great show in danger of being cancelled? Because people like YOU aren’t giving it a chance. Critics across America have raved about this show. And they’re right.
FNL is on tonight (Friday) on NBC at 9:00 EST. Check it out. Also check out the NBC Auction website for some cool props used in the show. I highly recommend picking up the Season 1 DVD.
If you’ve seen the show, what do you think about it?
Filed under: Beckett.com | Tags: Beckett Select Auctions, Graded Cards, T206 Wagner
Why is the Wagner card in worse condition than most of the other 549 cards in the Beckett T-206 Find? Just bad horrible luck?
There’s a logical explanation.
It is our understanding that this collection of T-206 cards has been handed down through generations, wholly intact, since it was originally put together around 1910. The collection is 100 percent Sweet Caporal on the back. There were no variations of the reverse in the 550-card collection. No t-205s, no Cracker Jacks, not even a single Piedmont back.
Knowing what we do now about the distribution of these cards in cigarette packs, it is quite likely the original collector was a loyal smoker of Sweet Caporal cigarettes 
and put his baseball card collection together one pack of smokes at a time. Even then it was known that the Wagner was a hard card to “pull.” He likely would have had to trade for it.
At some point, after mulling over his T-206 doubles and triples (imagine that for a moment), the man likely traded for the Wagner. The Wagner card was, as modern day collectors call it, his “filler” or “slider” card — a placeholder until he found an Wagner in better condition. Or maybe he didn’t care about condition at all, and was merely looking to complete the set.
Sound fishy? Not to us. But don’t laugh: we’ll have one of those stories for you next week.
