As the final days of its NFLPA license wind to a close and the current season drifts into the record book, Topps will crank out a new trading card product. 2015 Topps All-Access Football will arrive February 26, offering full-bleed photos on a design similar to some of the early Upper Deck SP products. A complete checklist is available for viewing or download below. The … [Read more...]
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2015 Topps Museum Collection Football Preview
2015 Topps Museum Collection football aims to present a higher-end, elegant product for collectors. A final checklist is available for download at the bottom of this article. The Basics Set to hit the shelves on February 5, just two days before Super Bowl 50 in San Francisco, Museum Football will contain four packs per hobby box, with five cards per pack, housed in a … [Read more...]
Photo Used for Lujack Rookie Card at Auction
It sounds like a cliché but Johnny Lujack really did ‘do it all’ at Notre Dame. As Frank Leahy’s star quarterback, he led the Irish to a 9-0 record and won the 1947 Heisman Trophy but not everyone knows Lujack also lettered in baseball, basketball and track. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears and by the fall of 1948, Lujack’s new Leaf football card was being chased by … [Read more...]
Ohio 3rd Grader at Super Bowl Via Panini Contest
The only thing 9-year-old third-grader Dylan Cooperider really expected from opening packs of football cards throughout the 2014 season was the fun of chasing his favorite Cleveland Browns players. A dream trip to Super Bowl XLIX as the grand prize winner in Panini America's Super Bowl Kid Reporter contest remained a distant fantasy – no matter how many times he entered codes … [Read more...]
Upper Deck Lands CFL Trading Card Deal
Upper Deck is bringing game-used jersey cards and autographs to collectors of the Canadian Football League. The company announced late Thursday that it had entered into an exclusive, multi-year agreement with the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the Canadian Football League Players’ Association (CFLPA) to become the CFL’s first official trading card partner. Upper Deck … [Read more...]
1990’s Football Card Brands Include Some One-Hit Wonders
The other day, when I re-read my column about the low numbered print runs that began to enter the hobby in the 1990’s, my mind went back to some of the more memorable companies which had only a short run in producing sports cards. Some of them lasted for several years and others had one brief shining moment. One aspect of this you will notice is most of these companies produced … [Read more...]
2014 Bowman Football Preview
NFL training camps will open next month and ahead of that comes 2014 Bowman Football, set to be released June 25. The timing works as Bowman tries hard to keep their tagline reputation “Home of the Rookie Card.” That means the pre-camp release will mean the inclusion of cards of many of the young hopefuls on NFL rosters so that fans and collectors can be a bit more in the know … [Read more...]
World Football League Cards a Labor of Love
This July marks the 40th anniversary of the debut of the short-lived World Football League and four collectors and historians of the brash organization that took on the NFL are continuing their quest to make sure it isn’t forgotten. They’ve just released the second of three series of WFL football cards. Greg Allred, Bill Jones, Willie O’Burke and Richie Franklin collaborated … [Read more...]
Review: Threads Not Stringing Together Sales
2013 Topps Triple Threads Football arrived just before Christmas with its usual place in the mid-to-high end range of products. Topps makes heavy use of relics and low numbered parallels. The product managers who handle Triple Threads understand enough about collectors they have even used the term "White Whale" in some of their nomenclature. White Whale is what many … [Read more...]
2013 Topps Strata Football Review/Box Break
2013 Topps Strata football is back for its second season after a very well received 2012 debut. Strata has 18 packs with six cards per pack and each box promises three hits: One Clear Cut Autograph Relic, one additional autograph and one more relic. My local card store of reference for this break was Nick's Sportscards in Richardson, TX (a shout out to Nick and Debbie here … [Read more...]
