The Very First Post
The 21st century is the football century. I love baseball, but Bud Selig’s failed to market the game to an OCD-ridden generation. The NFL, for all of its faults, has managed to capitalize on every emerging technology for the past 50-years.
The game of football was made for television, and television was made for the NFL: Pete Rozelle understood this, and Paul Tagliabue inherited it. Roger Goodell’s now using the internet to take the NFL to the next level.
Football’s been all too quick to forget it’s past, which is understandable in a game that’s constantly changing. It’s hard to equate today’s game to the earliest incarnations of the game. Goodell’s making an effort this year, with the AFL’s 40th anniversary, to actively remind the public that football has a storied history.
The first thing I noticed when I started purchasing vintage football cards was that the market was insanely undervaluing many of the cards. Many of the NFL Hall of Famers can be attained in raw form for under 10 dollars.
When you consider that BlowOutCards.com has Bowman Sterling on for 215 dollars and many of the boxes have yielded under 50 dollars resale value, it just clicks.
How can you possibly feel like you’ve gotten even the slightest amount of value out of a box, when you could’ve just purchased them on eBay for 1/5th of the price.
Maybe you pull a terrific Mark Sanchez or Matthew Stafford card, but cards like that aren’t seeded at a high enough ratio to justify taking the chance. Even if you do manage a case hit out of a product, you’ll barely double your money.
I don’t care about doubling my money, but I do care about getting ripped off.
…and thus begins the vintage collecting.
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