The Football Card Blog

A few weeks back, as I started combing through my list of card related blogs again, I came across a post at Joey's SqueezePlayCards.com (one of the first card blogs I found, and still a favorite) discussing his getting into collecting 2008 Upper Deck Masterpieces Football.  I saw the scans on his site, and by the time I saw the Snow Plow Game card, I knew I would be getting some.

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As I responded to Joey last week, after my SP Authentic experience I wanted to open some more cards--without the big price tag--and I was kind of feeling left out of the Topps Heritage craze, so I stopped by my local retailer and snagged a box.  I decided to grab a box of Bowman Football too, as I'm still a handful of cards short of the low numbered Bowman Chrome set.

So what did my first foray into 2008 baseball net? 

Lots of big sticks of gum.  Oh, and a Ryan Braun refractor, a handful of rookies (Armando Galarraga, Brandon Jones, Clint Sammons, Brons Sardinha or Seth Smith mean anything to anyone?), one Twin (two if you count Livan Hernandez in his Diamondbacks uniform), and one guy from my fantasy team (Jonathan Broxton). 

Kind of fun, but to be honest, I'm not real impressed by the cards--maybe it's what they were going for, but a lot of the pictures looked to me like I could have taken them with my digital camera.

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**UPDATE**The 2007 Bowman Chrome Refractor need list is up. 

In an effort to jump start my refractor set of 2007 Bowman Chrome Football, I've bid on a few auctions of refractor lots over the last week or so, and my first one arrived yesterday.  As it didn't seem as exciting as some of the individual cards I buy, I didn't crack into the team bag full of cards right away when I opened the envelope--so I didn't realize just what a deal I actually got.

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