The Contest

The Contest is one of the funniest and most popular Seinfeld episodes of all-time.  And it's the perfect lead-in for today's Sunday Sort topic:  contests & Seinfeld.

Back in January, Dominic over at Don Cardwell Loves this Blog held a Super Bowl Pick 'Em contest over on his blog.  Going into the big game, it came down to me and Tom over at Batting Out of Order.  Both of us had picked our favorite teams.  He had the New England Patriots and I rolled with the Seattle Seahawks.  Their Super Bowl victory led me to winning this pack of cards:

2025 Donruss Football

Here's what I pulled:

As a Packer fan, the Jacobs was the highlight of the pack... although it'll be interesting to see if the allegations against him are true or not.  The Burden rookie card could be a decent pull too.  I remember he had a big game against the 49ers late in the season last year.  Although since he's a Chicago Bear, I won't be rooting for him very often.

Let's fast forward to last month.  That's when Gregory over at Nine Pockets held a giveaway for one of his custom cards using a duck race.  Tom's duck finished first.  My duck finished in fifth.  Luckily... Gregory opened up his giveaway to the five fastest ducks, which meant that I got to choose a free custom.

He had a lot of cool cards to choose from including a few Seinfeld related cards and an awesome Beastie Boys In Action custom.  I purchased a few of the Beastie Boys cards when he first released them, so it came down to choosing one of the Seinfeld cards.

Ultimately I decided on the one you saw at the top of my post:

2024 Nine Pockets Custom #3

As I've mentioned a few times on this blog, George Costanza is my favorite character.  So this card will be joining two other customs that Gregory created:

2019 Nine Pockets Custom #1

2023 Nine Pockets Custom #7

Thank you Dominic for hosting this year's Super Bowl Pick 'Em and for the pack of cards.  And thank you Gregory for the custom card giveaway!  Your customs are amazing!  Keep up the great work.

As for the Sunday sort, it's slowly coming along.  I'm over half way through the blogger care packages and eBay purchases.  And I have even started working on some Flea Market Find posts that have been sitting in my draft folder since April.   Please stay tuned.

Until then...

Happy Sunday and sayonara!