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As I typed out another post responding to Key, it crossed my mind how much my expectations for cards has changed since I was a kid.
The height of my collecting days was from 95 to about 99/00. In those days, for me at least, not knowing what a hobby box was, pulling an auto or jersey was unheard of (In all this time I think I pulled a Glyn Milburn (sp?) rookie auto (for the Packers), A Paul Bearer auto, and A Randy Moss/Cris Carter jersey card (#'d out of something 700 or 1000 (at the time, insanely short print run), and I ripped a ton of packs).
I'll never forget one of my favorite sets, to this day, is 95 Topps. At the time you could buy packs of these for 25 cents at Walmart, and in a sign of the times, you could pull a '1000 yard' club insert every couple of packs that would list in Beckett for $20, supply and demand be damned!!!
Point being its saddens me that I can't enjoy simple base cards anymore. In 95, as the Panthers and Jags expanded into the league, I lived in Jacksonville, NC, and instantly became a huge Kerry Collins fan. If you would told 10 year old me in 1995 that as an adult, I could have a Kerry Collins Topps Finest rookie for a buck, I would've assumed the future was a magical place where there was no time for violence, or war, everyone would be too busy collecting.
Per my usual, this post is getting lengthy and running away from me, I guess I just wanted to express how much I loved 95-99 card designs, and how sad it is to me that I could give a **** about base cards these days.
I leave you all with this last undeniable fact: there will never (...ever) be a better looking set than 96' Select Certified. Everyday of my adult life I have to fight the urge to spend 100s of dollars I don't have buying up the red/blue/mirror inserts of those sets.
The height of my collecting days was from 95 to about 99/00. In those days, for me at least, not knowing what a hobby box was, pulling an auto or jersey was unheard of (In all this time I think I pulled a Glyn Milburn (sp?) rookie auto (for the Packers), A Paul Bearer auto, and A Randy Moss/Cris Carter jersey card (#'d out of something 700 or 1000 (at the time, insanely short print run), and I ripped a ton of packs).
I'll never forget one of my favorite sets, to this day, is 95 Topps. At the time you could buy packs of these for 25 cents at Walmart, and in a sign of the times, you could pull a '1000 yard' club insert every couple of packs that would list in Beckett for $20, supply and demand be damned!!!
Point being its saddens me that I can't enjoy simple base cards anymore. In 95, as the Panthers and Jags expanded into the league, I lived in Jacksonville, NC, and instantly became a huge Kerry Collins fan. If you would told 10 year old me in 1995 that as an adult, I could have a Kerry Collins Topps Finest rookie for a buck, I would've assumed the future was a magical place where there was no time for violence, or war, everyone would be too busy collecting.
Per my usual, this post is getting lengthy and running away from me, I guess I just wanted to express how much I loved 95-99 card designs, and how sad it is to me that I could give a **** about base cards these days.
I leave you all with this last undeniable fact: there will never (...ever) be a better looking set than 96' Select Certified. Everyday of my adult life I have to fight the urge to spend 100s of dollars I don't have buying up the red/blue/mirror inserts of those sets.
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