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Three more packs, over lunch:

Pack 6:
#57 Marvin Harrison
#15 LaDanian Tomlinson
#118 Cedric Benson
#105 Lee Evans
#122 Carson Palmer

Despite Benson, that would be an ok fantasy football pack--if Harrison's knee can hold up. He killed one of my teams last year.

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OK, grabbed three quick packs for now. Noticed something else on the checklist too--they actually label Cards 1-150 as "Commons" on the checklist. How annoying is that? Even Beckett doesn't classify ALL 150 as just commons--there are also your stars, your semi-stars, and your minor stars.

Anyway, into the cards:

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Well, finally broke down and purchased another hobby box of a 2008 product--in fact, two boxes, since I hadn't in quite some time, my local card shop gave me a bit of a deal.

Also, it might be the only 2008 product I collect this year--even Bowman Chrome, which I bought a ton of (too much?) in 2007 might be on the chopping block, depending on how the rookie class starts to look once the regular season gets under way. Right now, I'm not holding my breath--I still think what little superstar talent was in this draft was at positions that doesn't bode well for prospecting--so any additional 2008 cards I buy this year will have to be more for fun. Or of specific players.

I bought a bunch of Threads in 2007 as well (again, too much?), and did manage to pull a couple of the letter patches (Isaiah Stanback & Darius Walker--sold the Stanback, believe I still have the Walker), as well as a few other nice hits (Michael Bush Auto Patch card, Trent Edwards Prime Patch, Dan Marino Gridiron Kings Patch).

Anyway, since posts have been slow around here, I think I'll go at a slower pace for opening the boxes--not quite A Pack A Day style, but a few packs here, and a few there. Or I'll get bored in a few days and bust the rest, who knows?

Anyway, first two packs:

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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).

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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:

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