1999 Victory Football

It's playoff time, so let's check out another old pack of football cards. This is another one that I found at a card show recently. Upper Deck released a Victory branded set for several years in baseball (and probably longer in hockey), but this claims to be the first edition of a Victory NFL set.

118 - Fred Taylor - Our first card of the pack is a Jacksonville Jaguar. The Jags were still a relatively new franchise at this point.

289 - Jerome Bettis - The "All-Victory-Team" subset design is a bit weird. The dashes are very strange. When you're The Bus, you're going to obscure some of the letters on this busy looking thing.

92 - Herman Moore - Moore was a star player for a team that didn't often have a lot going for it.

66 - Marquez Pope - Pope was new to the Browns (who were, oddly, an expansion team in 1999) so he's shown at practice here.

243 - Travis Jervey - New team with an old uniform. His last name is one letter off from a terrific sports name.

322 - Jamal Anderson - Here's another busy subset design. Jamal Anderson was a huge star for a short time.

217 - Trent Green - Trent Green somewhat famously turned his excellent 1998 season with Washington, only the second of his career, into a big contract where he was supposed to lead the upstart Rams only to be forced to make way for the Kurt Warner Story due to injury.

220 - Amp Lee - Another Rams guy, Lee was always more of a passing catching back.

194 - Rickey Dudley - Years from now, no one is going to be able to keep track what years the Raiders played where.

293 - Jerry Rice - One of the most famous wide receivers of all-time.

292 - Doug Flutie - Flutie's notoriety always seemed to eclipse his actual accomplishments on the field.

420 - Sedrick Irvin - Each pack promises one rookie card, and we get this guy on a trampoline, apparently. I'm not sure if these were short printed or if there just weren't very many rookies in this set.

The last thing in the pack is this bonus sweepstakes card.