Maybe. Maybe not. Seems like baseball card posts receive at least twice as many views as non-baseball card related posts. That's why I typically stick to writing about baseball cards.
However.... I have enjoyed collecting a variety of sports since the late 80's/early 90's. And over the past few months... several people have donated some football cards to my collection. I figured I'd kick off the 2022 NFL season with a bunch of them today...
Let's start off with this gorgeous looking Favre insert:
2020 Panini Mosaic Old School Mosaic #OS15
Not a fan of Panini MLB cards... but if I ever find a blaster of Panini Mosaic football on Target's website or store shelves, I'll be adding it to my cart. I'm actually tempted to build this shiny stained glass looking set.
John over at Johnny's Trading Spot sent me that card... along with these other Mosaic parallels:
2020 Panini Mosaic Reactive Blue #283
2020 Panini Mosaic Camo Pink #292
2020 Panini Mosaic Reactive Green #294
Here are a bunch of other football parallels and inserts John sent my way:
Goff is Cal's all-time passing leader... and it's not even close. This is a nice addition to that PC.
2021 Panini Prizm Draft Picks Orange Ice Prizm #12
Love me some acetate...
2020 Panini Illusions Clear Shots #13
Marino was one of my favorite quarterbacks back in the 80's and 90's. Shame he never won a Super Bowl.
2020 Panini Illusions Living Legends #LL12
The 49ers on the other hand... won a bunch during that era. I couldn't stand them when I was a kid. Still don't. But Rice is one of only a handful of 49ers I enjoy collecting. Doubt I have ever mentioned it on this blog, but I actually have a small PC of his.
2020 Select Purple Prizm Die-Cut #118
Although... I disliked him as much as the team he played for. Over the years I've grown to admire him and his contributions to the sport and was happy to slide this into the Montana section of my football insert binder.
And here are three new cards for my Ray Lewis and Ed Reed PC's...
2020 Panini Phoenix Fire Forged #2
2020 Panini Select Unbreakable #U14
2019 Panini Illusions Living Legends #LL-ER
Next up are some Prizm cards... which seem to be one of the most popular football products out there. Greg over at Crocodile Sports Cards sent me the entire Seattle Seahawks team set over the summer:
He also sent me a new single for the Ed Reed PC:
2020 Panini Prizm #46
And rounding out this football card post are two "mask" cards sent by Woody over at CCW a while back:
Both of these are photo variants. More importantly these two are arguably the two best players on my two favorite football teams: the Seattle Seahawks and the Green Bay Packers.
2021 Donruss #29
2021 Donruss #155
I've been pretty spoiled as a football fan as both franchises have had a taste of success over the past decade or so. But the Seattle Seahawks will be lucky to win five games this year. I'd be very happy with one win over the San Francisco 49ers.
As for the Green Bay Packers... anything less than a trip to the playoffs will be a disappointment. The loss of Davante hurt, but my expectations for the Packers haven't been this high in years. Hopefully high expectations doesn't lead to heartache.
Thank you John, Greg, and Woody for these generous contributions to my football cards collection. I actually have one more football card post that's in the process of being written. I'm going to try and hammer that out and publish it this weekend. Here's a hint... with the help of some bloggers I've reached a very cool milestone on my hobby timeline. Stay tuned.
And for all of those baseball cards fans... I should be back to writing posts for you in the upcoming weeks.
Happy Thursday and sayonara!
8 comments:
I know there are a ton of football cards in the 6 $20.00 boxes UI have yet to go through. Especially that Prizm set. The last batch of those boxes was crammed full.
I have both those mask cards.
The mosaics are cool.
You know I have never bought a single football card, but I came close a few times when I had a chance to buy several Joe Montana rookies. I passed on them but now I wish I had bought them. Football is fun to play but I for some reason can't get interested in watching it. If I someday purchase a football card it would be a Montana and speaking of Montana, I like that 2020 Select Purple Prizm Die-Cut #118 card. I miss the great card designs from the 90's. There were a ton of cards those years, but it gave collectors a choice of cool looking inserts.
I'm more interested in football card posts than I am for the latest season.
Panini can certainly put out a good looking set if they got the logos! Their card backs are universally bad though.
johnnys trading spot - you're a lucky man. just don't know when you find the time to go through all of those boxes. bet you're having a blast though. thanks again for all of these shiny singles.
elliptical man - are you building the photo variation set? it'd be kind of cool to collect all of the different mask cards in the set.
rr - if i ever come across affordable montana rookies, i'd buy them. here in the bay area, they are always over priced.
jon - good to know. i might have one more football post coming up in the next few weeks
jafronius - i agree with you on the backs. but those mosaic parallels sure are pretty
Those Mosaics are a great blend of vintage and modern designs. The Marino is nice. The Dolphins were a popular team in his day. There was a radio host in Miami named Dunky Mitchell who always predicted a Dolphins super bowl. Yep.
I remember a game at Joe Robbie where Tom Tupa kicked an east field goal away and he lost the game and he was fuming sour grapes. He passes us in the tunnel and some guy gets snarky and shouts “Yo, Tupe, throw me the ball! Oh that’s right you kicked it away!” And Tupa shouts some harsh words and this lady turns around and says “Quiet, you crooked footed boob!” and the crowd just erupted with laughter and what happened next, I’ll never forget;
Tupa just flicked his wrist and his glove slips off and slaps this old spinster in her face and it stays there.
Just wish he had been that accurate about one play ago.
Those Mosaics pop. The printing is exceptional.
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