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Chris Cooley may become to football card collecting what Pat Neshek is to baseball card collecting. Neshek, who until injured this year was a very successful relief pitcher for the Minnesota Twins, has a blog where he discusses collecting cards, and trades autographs and sports memorabilia with other collectors.
Cooley doesn't have his own blog (yet), but has a blog at http://chriscooley47.blogspot.com/ (thanks to Sports Cards Uncensored for that--I thought I beat you to the punch for once!), and contributes to the Shutdown Corner on Yahoo! Sports. In the past, he has discussed his own fantasy football experiences, including the 2005 season when he knocked one of his own teams out of the playoffs with a three touchdown performance late in the season.
His most recent entry deals with his re-entry into football card collecting--specifically ending up ripping $70 worth of product one afternoon, and not finding what he was after (a card of himself--sounds like an egotist, but let's face it--I'd do it too). He did get an Adrian Peterson rookie auto #'d 062/199, though.
Thinking that cards today are pretty cool, he went back to the store and bought more--and now it sounds like he (and his wife) are hooked.
And they've even got a profile up to sell cards on ebay--you can see what he's listed here. His first foray netted some decent cards--that AP auto is going for about $163 so far (ends in 8 hours or so), and he has a handful of other jersey cards up, going for between $31 and $61. Looks like today he added a Tom Brady jersey, and a Chris Cooley autographed card--which is already up to $28, presumably because Cooley pulled and signed the card himself.
Looks like there may be more of these in the future--at least until Topps/Donruss/Upper Deck tell him he can't do it any more (would they do that?).
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The 2008 football season got under way this past weekend. Huh?
There likely won't be a Card of the Week today--we missed last week too--I finally did win one of the old school players who became screen stars, but it hasn't shown up quite yet. Hopefully this week, still.
In the mean time, I have one more old cello pack to open--but it's not really just a cello pack, it's a rack pack. From 1981 Topps Football--the year of the Joe Montana rookie. This was by far the most expensive of the packs I bought, and another year that I have no experience opening. And since it's a rack pack, it's gonna be a long one.
Despite the lack of experience opening 1981 cards, I do have some random cards from that set I've picked up over the years--and a copy of the Montana rookie (as seen in the title picture), which I bought at the local card shop/video rental store in my home town when I was a kid. I paid $80 for it back then--a huge amount for me as a kid--which was probably pretty fair. It's by no means in mint condition.
Anyway, my hope for the pack was to snag a gradeable Montana--and before any of the regulars from a certain Uncensored web site jump down my throat for grading, let it be known that the only reason I have to grade is that I got 5 free gradings when I signed up for their online service, which I do find useful for identification purposes, checklists, and a few other things (even if it is painfully slow).
All right, for anyone who may remember all the way back to our first Card of the Week post, you may remember that 1982 Topps Football was one of the first sets of cards my brother and I ever collected when we were little. Real little. As in didn't know any better than to take care of our cards little.
I still have those cards somewhere--even all beat up. I think there's even a Joe Montana that's missing a big chunk, but fortunately, I think that's the only real tragedy--to my knowledge, we didn't have any Ronnie Lott or Lawrence Taylor rookies, back in the day.
Of course, when I first started to get serious about collecting again a few years ago, I thought I'd see if I could rectify some of the transgressions of my youth--and bought a bunch of unopened 1982 Topps cello packs.
So, when I went on my recent binge of unopened packs, as soon as I noticed that the seller I was buying from had a '82 Topps Cello pack for sale, I went ahead and snagged that too.
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Alright, getting back on track here--the third ello pack I busted was another pack of 1983 Topps:
Well, Sports Card Info stole my thunder on this one a little bit--but, I guess that's what happens when you have an idea and don't acto on it for several weeks. My recent splurge on some older packs of cards reminded me of an episode on Antiques Roadshow I saw a year or two ago, which featured some unopened packs of 1958 Topps Football cards:
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