The Football Card Blog

So, as I prepare to participate in my first "Mini Card Show" next month, I've been going on eBay occassionally, and checking out cards of some local players that might be of interest to younger collectors and nostalgic adults who bring their kids in that I can get decent deals on.

One recent search led me to a seller who had recently opened a case of 2006 Bowman Chrome, and had several individual rookies, rookie autos, uncirculated rookies, etc that were of interest to me, and all at reasonable prices.  So I ended up bidding on a whole slew of them.

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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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So who knows if he'll stay retired, but I thought I'd take a quick peek at the impact the announcement has had on his cards on eBay, especially since I picked up a few of his rookie cards a few years ago, quite possibly for this very moment. (Oh, and I do figure that the odds of Beckett doing a similar article, probably much more thorough, is about 99%).

A quick look at recently close auctions show a 1991 Favre Upper Deck Star rookie (the one that you can kind of make out in the header photo above) going for $7.99 in a Buy it Now auction, a 1991 Fleer Ultra going for $6 plus $3 S/H in a BIN auction, another '91 Upper Deck going for $10 (BIN again), and a 2 card lot of '91 Upper Deck going for $13 BIN.  There are a ton of BIN auctions that closed out this morning.

Going back to auctions that closed yesterday, a '91 Upper Deck closed for $3.25+$3 S/H, a '91 Fleer Ultra for $3.05+$2.95 S/H, a 2005 Topps Throwback 1991 Topps BGS 9.5 that failed to get a bid at $9.95+$3.95 (same card sold BIN for $19.95+$3.95 earlier today), a '91 Fleer Ultra that didn't get a bid at $0.99+$2.99 S/H, another with no bids at $0.99+$3, a '91 Upper Deck for $8.00+$4.60 with no bids, and another one that sold BIN for $3.50+$2.

Looking at live auctions, it's going crazy:

'91 Upper Deck, $20.00 + $2.50 with 4 hours left
'91 Fleer Ultra, $10.50 + $2.00 with 3 hours left
'91 Upper Deck, $10.50 + $2.50 with 5 hours left
'91 Upper Deck, $15.00 + $4.95 with 1.5 hours left

There's even an Upper Deck Rookie Debut card (appears to be a 2005, I think, but conveniently there are no years listed in the auction) selling for $10.79 + $3.50 with an hour left (and a seller with a 97% rating, although all from 12 months or older).

My final verdict: Hold on while I get my scanner fired up so I can get my three Favre's listed.  In fact, I even found a '91 Upper Deck BGS 9.5 that had a BIN of $25 + $1.50 S/H, which I decided to snap up--hopefully I won't be late to the gold rush.

Otherwise, I guess I'll just take some Saturday to drive a couple hours east, and find some sucker Packer fan to take it off my hands. Now, the only question is, can I stomach making Favre a Card of the Week on Friday?