2009 Bowman football

I believe this would be my best pack break of this year so far. And it's a retail pack! I pulled an on-card auto and a parallel numbered to only 299. Don'tcha just love Bowman?

#121/299

I love that I pulled a base version of the parallel I pulled.. now I have a partial T. J. set!

The other cards out of the pack:
#3 Eli Manning
#10 Tom Brady
#66 Andre Johnson
#124 Rey Maualuga RC
#152 Duke Robinson RC
#165 Jonathan Luigs RC

Blaster Break: 2009 Press Pass Football pack 7 & 8 of 8

Alright, let's finish off this blaster. Here's pack #7:

..and then 2 more duplicates of #73 Knowshon Moreno and #94 Chase Daniel & Jeremy Maclin.


Pack #8:

At first I thought I had 2 of the same card in the same pack but then I noticed the different colored foil in the bottom left.

And that does it. And to sum it all up..

Cost: $19.99
8 packs w/ 4 cards per pack for
32 cards
0 hits
2 "Banner Season" inserts w/ 1:4 pack odds
1 short print w/ 1:4 pack odds
2 damaged cards
1 extra card

Blaster Break: 2009 Press Pass Football pack 6 of 8

Here's a 4th different Stafford card I've pulled so far. Unfortunately this one's dented badly on both edges and has a crease right up the middle.

The 4th card in this pack was a double.. #59 Kenny Britt.

Blaster Break: 2009 Press Pass Football pack 5 of 8

The Alphonso Smith card came out of the pack with a dent on one edge and two crunched corners.. but this 4 card pack came with a 5th card! Was it factory worker morals or cardboard karma?



A "Banner Season" insert limited to 1:4 packs.

The fifth card was another Matthew Stafford / Knowshon Moreno "Teammates" card. 21 cards out of this blaster so far and 4 of them are Staffords.. not bad.

Blaster Break: 2009 Press Pass Football packs 3 & 4 of 8

Next pack...

Blaster Break: 2009 Press Pass Football pack 2 of 8

Card #102. This one is a short print with 1:14 pack odds.

Blaster Break: 2009 Press Pass Football pack 1 of 8

I found myself near a Target this morning and of course I took the opportunity to splurge! I had many blaster choices, but most were older, sets that I didn't have much more interest in. It came down to '09 Press Pass football or '09 Artifacts baseball.. and I went with a Press Pass blaster and a single pack of Artifacts to have a taste. I'll post Artifacts later but for now, here's the first Press Pass pack.

[insert, 1:4 pack odds]

2009 Press Pass Football

Boy was I happy to see the card merchandiser doing his thing at my local supermarket yesterday after what seemed like months of no action. This store gets stuff in, but the rampant theft and pack searching really puts a damper on my options after just a few days. He put out some packs of '09 Goudey, '09 Press Pass Football and Press Pass Kiss trading cards. I took a Goudey and a Press Pass but no Kiss for me. I am not a fan.

After seeing them for myself, I'm going to agree with most of the other bloggers out there, Goudey is just plain ugly this year. I probably wont buy any more of it. Press Pass on the other hand was really nice.. great design, use of foil, nice inserts and parallels. I would consider completing this set if I didn't have so much else going on.

1990-91 Clemson Collegiate Collection

This is the second time I've found myself buying packs of these Collegiate Collection cards from 1990, the first ones from UCLA, and these from Clemson. They have some great oddball cards of stars from almost a century of sports history at some of these schools. I mean, I pulled a UCLA Jackie Robinson basketball card last time. So I bought a couple more packs I spotted for 50 cents a piece. Boxes of these packs from lots of different schools are all over eBay usually for less than 10 bucks, I'm tempted to buy one and go for a set.

I love the look on Horace Grant's face here. It's like the photographer asked him to look at the camera.
Here's William "The Refrigerator" Perry posing next to a life size poster of himself. It says all 2,000 posters sold out in 30 hours.
I Just like this one for the pink jacket.

Here's what I got:

#5 Michael Dean Perry
#6 Larry Nance
#7 Steve Fuller
#8 Horace Grant
#146 Balloon Launch
#147 William Perry
#148 Jim Davis
#149 Jim Brennan

What it cost me: $ .50
Beckett max worth: $2.95
Insert odds I beat: none
Most valuable card: #8 Horace Grant @ $1.00