Who still collects football cards?

panini? wtf is that?

So? Didnt Topps just craft an exclusivity deal with MLB?

Pyro Messiah: panini? wtf is that?

A nummy sammich. Mmmmmmm...panini.

Pyro Messiah: panini? wtf is that?

I have no idea either

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Pyro Messiah: panini? wtf is that?

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Tastes like horse.
/For your health

Where am I going to get my supply of chalky brittle gum then?

I bought my eight year old basball cards recently, since it was a joy of my youth.

The reason the industry went under is because they now charge like 2 bucks for 8 cards. I blame companies like Upper Deck adding things like actual baseball pieces to the cards for this idiocy.

It sucks - but my Sammy Sosa rookie is still worth something right? How about my McGwire USA card? Bonds rookie?

/damn steroids making me poor

Pyro Messiah: panini? wtf is that?

An Italian card, sticker & magazine publisher. They publish Marvel comics in some overseas regions. They just bought out DonRuss.

emocomputerjock: Who still collects football cards?

Who ever collected football cards?

I have always been a much bigger football fan, but card collecting was always about baseball. Of the few football cards that I did have, I would say 75% of them were giveaways at Jets games.

The only somewhat non-worthless sports card I own is a signed Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) rookie card. Found it in my grandmother's attic when I was just a kid and she said I could have it.

/Cool story, bro

I think Topps is my favorite (formerly) Brooklyn-based manufacturing business. I am going to go take photos of the old headquarters one of these days (I have a long to do list).

On a good day if you close your eyes and take a deep breath (and ignore the acrid chemical stench) you can still smell Bazooka Joe!

p the boiler: I bought my eight year old basball cards recently, since it was a joy of my youth.

The reason the industry went under is because they now charge like 2 bucks for 8 cards. I blame companies like Upper Deck adding things like actual baseball pieces to the cards for this idiocy.

It sucks - but my Sammy Sosa rookie is still worth something right? How about my McGwire USA card? Bonds rookie?

/damn steroids making me poor

What about my autographed Roger Clemens card?

brap: I think Topps is my favorite (formerly) Brooklyn-based manufacturing business. I am going to go take photos of the old headquarters one of these days (I have a long to do list).

On a good day if you close your eyes and take a deep breath (and ignore the acrid chemical stench) you can still smell Bazooka Joe!

This book (which I absolutely love) has a chapter on the author's visit to the Topps HQ back in the day. Worth hunting down a copy of.

emocomputerjock: Who still collects football cards?

My 9 year-old.

there their theyre: What about my autographed Roger Clemens card?

I think it might be worth more than a Ken Caminiti

Uzzah:
This book (which I absolutely love) has a chapter on the author's visit to the Topps HQ back in the day. Worth hunting down a copy of.

Thanks, I will read that. I'll also post pics if I ever get around to it.

farkMcFark: Where am I going to get my supply of chalky brittle gum then?

back in 1988, about the last time they actually did that.

fark_me_running: farkMcFark: Where am I going to get my supply of chalky brittle gum then?

back in 1988, about the last time they actually did that.

They actually still include it in some products, such as Topps Heritage.

p the boiler: The reason the industry went under is because they now charge like 2 bucks for 8 cards. I blame companies like Upper Deck adding things like actual baseball pieces to the cards for this idiocy.

The industry went under in the early 90s because the market was flooded with too many cards, too many brands. The only thing that brought it back was the advent of autographed cards, jersey cards, etc.

Mr. Slippyfist 2009-11-10 03:30:09 PM emocomputerjock: Who still collects football cards? Who ever collected football cards? I have always been a much bigger football fan, but card collecting was always about baseball
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I HATE baseball with a passion, but I've always collected oldschool baseball cards.

Football, never.

1. On a good day if you close your eyes and take a deep breath (and ignore the acrid chemical stench) you can still smell Bazooka Joe!

Ask him to bathe more often.

2. The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book is awesome. I bought it back in '74 and got the reissue around '94.

3. I got interested in baseball when I found a pile of cards in somebody's trash (Pilots, Senators, Colt 45s) I lost interest in baseball (relatively) when I stopped collecting, which was exactly the same time that Topps lost their exclusive rights and everybody started printing baseball cards.

p the boiler: The reason the industry went under is because they now charge like 2 bucks for 8 cards.

WTF are you talking about? That's a deal.

eTopps charges anywhere from $5 to $12.50 per card. Worse, the Topps UFC series 1 boxes were fetching something like $1,400 PER BOX.

THAT'S why Topps is crashing and burning.

Pyro Messiah: panini? wtf is that?

I haven't collected cards since the early 90s. When they started having 4355433456765 different companies and having box sets and tons of farking gimmicks that sucked.

Like having a card gold leafed. WTF.

I collected NBA and NHL player cards from 1990 to around 1992. In 1991, Vancouver was saturated with sports cards businesses. That's all they did, sell cards. Except for the ones who thought to diversify (or had the card thing as a side venture) they went bust a few years later.

They really did overproduce those cards in the early 90s. That's why the card companies decided to charge more for a handful of cards.

There's vending machines selling *unopened* packs of cards I used to buy for a buck in the 90s for a quarter. That's farked up.