The Football Card Blog

The 2008 football season got under way this past weekend.  Huh?

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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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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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Sorry, this was supposed to go live before I left last weekend, but I just didn't get around to finishing it.

After the 1979 cello pack I opened last week, the second old school cello pack I opened was a 1983 Topps cello. 

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