2015 Topps Football NFL Commemorative Super Bowl Coin Retail Blaster Coin Card Pack

I ended up picking up a blaster of this years football specifically to see what these coins looked like and that there are 4 maybe 5 coins I'd want to add to my Packers collection.

The coin is pretty well done.  The card is thick and heavy and the coin rotates within the card.  The card itself is pretty plain, would have been nice to have the team logos or the super bowl logo, or something other than nothing.

2014 Upper Deck Conference Greats

Once again, we random all my scanned folders and today we get a pack of Upper Deck Conference Greats. Upper Deck, not going down without a fight, put out what they could with the NCAA license they had prior to Panini signing a ton of exclusive deals with the schools. As we are all aware, going exclusive with a manufacturer is not the best thing. That being said, this is probably a set that shouldn't have been produced anyway.

Ye-ow is that pack design a snoozer. Very collegiate font at least. You can get hits - 1 auto and 2 relics per hobby box. Away we go....

While black and white, that is not the norm of this set. What team was Anthony Miller with? I am going to guess Tennessee based on the orange. Wikipedia says I am correct. This is the design, folks. There is no mention of the school on the front, unless the player happens to be wearing it in the photo. The only foil is in the upper left with the logo and that bar. There are colored parallels, where the foil will change.

No shopping on the cards yet as it was releases while UD had full NCAA rights. That brown box at the bottom is annoying and unnecessary. Ditto on the lame CG logo.

I believe this is a pewter foil. I didn't note it down when I scanned, but the foil does appear to be a different color.

Decent photos, as always with UD, but the design is dreadful.

Let's play "how many marks of the beast can you find".

Recycled image on the back. Since this is a college release, you get the 4 years of stats tops. Little bio at the bottom, but no mention of his pro location or life. Last card, and I did get one of the hits from the box.

Well hey now - not too shabby. Compare this image with the one of Stafford. Who supplied the uniforms while Manning was in school? No clue. Not numbered, and you have to assume this is a college player worn swatch, but the back doesn't clue you in of the exact origin of the fabric. I still have this card, so if anyone is interested, click my name on the right panel to get my Blogger contact info.

2015 Topps Chrome Baseball (Hobby)

When this year's Topps Baseball came out I instantly thought how great the design would look all chromed out.  And it doesn't disappoint.  This year you do have the option of Jumbo packs of chrome or like the pack featured here the paltry 4 card regular packs.

Nice to see the Cub's rookie phenom show up.  Here's a shot at the backs.

I don't think I got any refractors.  I read somewhere that Topps didn't label the backs as refractors this year.  That isn't a problem with the color parallels, but I honestly don't know if I could tell if any of these were refractors or not.

2014 Topps Football Retail

Greetings!

Oh boy have we been slacking on the site.  Sorry for the lack of posts dear readers.  As for my excuse, my trusty printer/scanner has been on the fritz again, so I had to resort to Plan B:  I used the Wifey's scanner with the memory card from our camera, then connected the camera to the computer, and finally transferred the scans from the camera to the computer.  Well, enough rambling...it's a pack of 2014 Topps Football!

A Jumbo Hobby pack was posted a while back, but not a good ol' retail pack.  Here's what I got:

#308 - Joe Thomas (upper right)
#305 - Knowshon Moreno (upper left)
#206 - Eric Weddle (lower right)
#296 - Steven Hauschka (lower left)

Sorry about the bad scan and the cards not being scanned in the right order.  The cards look alright in person, but you can barely see the players' names in the scan.

#216 - D.J. Swearinger (upper right)
#134 - Theo Riddick (upper left)
1000 Yard Club #3 - Andre Johnson (lower right) 
 #98 - Jordan Lynch (lower left - Target Red-Border)

 The 1000Yard Club cards came in 1:4 packs, while the Red-Border cards were 1:6 packs.

#170 - Mike Tolbert (upper right)
#332 - Ha Ha Clinton Dix (RC, lower right)
#358 - Taylor Lewan (RC, middle)
#356 - Jadeveon Clowney (RC, left)

Here are some backs for you:


Anyway, that's the pack.  I hope Plan B works out for me going forward so that I can get more packs up to the site.  That's all for now...thanks for reading!

1991 Championship Marketing WCW

In 1991 this brand called Championship Marketing released the first ever World Championship Wrestling card set. The set featured 110 base cards and whopping 110 puzzle cards. Good luck on collecting those puzzle pieces. After years of trying find boxes or even packs of this set I finally found it at mall in Hayward, CA during family reunion vacation. On to 15 card pack....

Puzzle Card no. 76 - I wonder who's on the puzzle

33 - Terry Taylor - it's the wrestler formerly known as Red Rooster.

85 - Sting is Injured - horizontal card of Sting getting wheeled out in the stretcher with Rick Steiner looking on. Sting suffered knee injury at Clash of Champions and did injury angle to write him out of title picture.

65 - El Gigante - former basketball player was drafted in 3rd round by Atlanta Hawks, but never made the team. Instead cutting their losses then owner Ted Turner decide gave him opportunity to become a wrestler. After wrestling few years in WCW he ended up in WWE with wrestling under the name Giant Gonzalez. He passed away in 2010.

23 - Paul E. With Mouth Open - Ladies and gentleman this is Paul Heyman WITH long hair to his shoulder. Want to know how running wrestling company can take toll just look at this picture then his mug around 1996-97 to his current mug.

13 - Sid Vicious - its the ruler of the world with crazy rambling even willing insult himself.

16 - Ron Simmons - DAMN! He got handle of Ricky Morton. At the time he was teaming with Butch Reed known as Doom along with manager Teddy Long. (yes that Teddy Long of Smackdown fame playa) He became first black WCW world heavyweight champion defeating Vader in 1992. He appeared in WWF in 1996 as leader of Nation of Domination then team up with John Bradshaw Layfield known as APA.

4 - Rick Steiner - with appearance of Arn Anderson

9 - Tom Zenk

12 - Ric Flair - WHOOOO! 16X world champion the Nature Boy Ric Flair! He's double stomping on someone.

101 - Tony in Front of Chicago Building - Tony Schiavone the voice of WCW til WWE bought them in 2001 and he wasn't part of their plan. Currently broadcaster of Gwinnett Braves.

82 - The New Champion - Sting with his newly won NWA/WCW world heavyweight championship belt. He beat Ric Flair to win the belt in July on 1990.

62 - Flyin' Brian - the late Brian Pillman hitting flying crossbody on this nobody in the ring. He would become loose cannon around 1995 and manage con his way out of WCW releasing him to make storyline look real only for WWE to sign him. He passed away in 1997 on day before he suppose to wrestle on PPV.

11 - Brian Pillman

14 - The Four Horsemen - this incarnation of The Four Horsemen features Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Barry Windham, and Si Vicious

46 - Sting - the face of WCW with NWA/WCW world heavyweight title around his waist. Now has opportunity to become WWE world heavyweight champion taking on Seth Rollins at WWE Night of Champions.

Fun look into first WCW cards produced. I enjoy the black border lined with stars design. For wrestling fan good look back 20 years ago when it was WWF/E and WCW.