kristopher | November 27, 2009
Player: Cris Carter Card: 1989 Score Football, Card #72 Team/Position: Philly Eagles, Minnesota Vikings / Wide Receiver Cost: document.write(‘$0.50′);$0.50 If Cris Carter isn’t a first-ballot Hall of Famer, I don’t know who is. Jerry Rice is obviously going to be a first-ballot guy; but realistically, do you have to be the greatest player at your [...]
kristopher | November 27, 2009
Player: Steve Largent Card: 1977 Topps Football Card #177 Team/Position: Seattle Seahawks / Wide Receiver Cost: $3.75 Largent finished up his career at Tulsa as an All-American, yet slipped into the fourth round of the NFL Draft. The Houston Oilers originally planned on cutting the great white hope, until the expansion Seahawks traded an 8th [...]
kristopher | November 25, 2009
Player: Steve “Big Boy” Van Buren Card: 1950 Bowman Gum, Card #23 Team/Position: Philadelphia Eagles / Runningback Cost: Acquired in a $20.00 Lot After writing about Steve Van Buren’s Leaf rookie card yesterday, I received a wonderful surprise today: Steve Van Buren’s first Bowman card that doesn’t look like a boring old stock photo. While [...]
kristopher | November 25, 2009
Player: Deion “Prime Time” Sanders Card: 1989 Score Football, Card #246 Team/Position: Falcons, Cowboys, 49ers / Cornerback Cost: $0.50 I absolutely, positively, despise Deion Sanders. As a 49ers fan, it was Deion’s mentoring of Michael Crabtree that finally pushed me over the edge. Sanders is brash and seems to wipe his ass with the mantra, [...]
kristopher | November 25, 2009
Player: Steve “Big Boy” Van Buren Card: 1948 Leaf Football, Card #22 Team/Position: Philadelphia Eagles / Runningback Cost: $23.00 The print-line across the top definitely detracts from this 1948 Steve Van Buren, but it also made it affordable. There’s currently a PSA 5 available on eBay for just over 100 dollars, which is actually a [...]
kristopher | November 24, 2009
Player: Marion Motley Card: 1950 Bowman Football, Card #43 Team/Position: Cleveland Browns / Fullback Cost: $30.00 The 1950 Bowman Gum Football set is one of the greatest sets of all time. Prior to the 1950 season, the AAFC merged with the NFL and some of the all-time greats finally got their first rookie cards. The [...]
kristopher | November 23, 2009
Player: Jack Christiansen Card: 1952 Bowman Football, Card #129 Team/Position: Detroit Lions / Defensive Halfback Cost: $4.00 The early Bowman Football cards are probably the best looking football cards ever produced. After the black and white cards of the late 40′s, Bowman really stepped it up and produced football cards with incredibly bright, contrasting, colours [...]
kristopher | November 23, 2009
Player: John Mackey Card: 1964 Philadelphia Gum, Card #3 Team/Position: Baltimore Colts / Tight End Cost: $5.00 I ended up ordering this Mackey card with the Butkus rookie card, so it was pretty cheap. When it comes to getting lower grade rookie cards, Kruk Cards out of Michigan has really been a solid source. Mackey [...]
kristopher | November 17, 2009
Player: Mel Hein Card: 1955 Topps All Americans, Card #28 Team/Position: Washington State (New York Giants) / Center, Linebacker Cost: $18.00 Mel Hein was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as part of the first ever class in 1963. Sammy Baugh, Bert Bell, Dutch Clark, Red Grange, George Halas, Pete Henry, Cal Hubbard, [...]
kristopher | November 16, 2009
Player: Eric Dickerson Card: 1984 Topps Football Card #280 Team/Position: Los Angeles Rams, Indianapolis Colts, Oakland Raiders / Runningback Cost: $5.00 For some reason, I feel that runningbacks of the 80′s definitely get lost in the wash. Emmitt Smith and Barry Sanders went about destroying records at such a frequency that the Eric Dickersons and [...]
