Newest Challenge for my card collection~

I've finally logged in all 10 vikings police cards in the set. Here's the next card I'm chasing. This is sort of when sports cards started to get interesting. This duflex technology is something they don't really do any more. Doesn't hurt that it's a Hall of Famer. I did not bid on the card right away because it looks like something that can be had for pretty cheap. Maybe even the whole set can be found for a good price. I'll take a look on Ebay and the Beckett marketplace and see what I can find out about it.

It looks like this card was mislabeled in the auction on further research. It was labeled "Live" but is actually the hobby parallel called "Limited". This is a base set. The difference between the two is that the retail version has "Live" printed several times along the left-hand side of the card. The Limited version has the team name only as you see here.

Football Challenge card Time~

My 1990 Vikings Police set came in. Here's a photo of the whole lot that I purchased from Ebay. The history on these cards isn't readily available on the internet. The back of the Chris Doleman card says: "You can get your Vikings cards only from peace officers. There will be lots of chances to get your cards, but don't ask the officers when they are busy. Only ask when it is safe." No kidding right? What moron would ask for cards when the officer is on scene at an accident or a murder? Might have been kind of funny to ask for these cards when you got pulled over for something. I don't know if they came as a full set when handed out? This seems likely but this has to be the closest thing to an oddball set I've ever owned. My 13 year old Becket says this set is worth 5.00, I paid about 8.00 with shipping for this set. Cards are very thin stock and seem cheaply produced, this is to be expected with this type of issue and the era.

The best card from 2 boxes of 2012 Limited is this Awesome Prime Jersey Autograph of Nick Foles!

The guy might have a veteran in Micheal Vick in front of him on the depth chart. He might also have a young stud in Matt Barkley behind him. In watching some of his games I think he has potential and could end up on some other team if the stables get too full in Philadelphia. The card is numbered to 25 copies and I was super stoked to pull it. This card was by far my best pull out of my two box breaks of this product. I was tempted to sell it but as I have some other Foles autographs I'm hanging on to this one will just stay in my personal collection. And why not? I think part of the draw of collecting is the feeling you get when you pull a really nice card from a box. This one definitely qualifies.

Ponder Jersey card, pretty sweet~

The next and next to last card from my 2012 Limited break is this card. Overall I've broken 2 boxes of this product this year and must say it's a pretty good set. Tomorrow's card is VERY sweet, I promise. Anyway this one's numbered to 99 copies and I've always liked the Vikings so this is a pretty cool card. There are numerous parallels of this particular card, one on Ebay I saw was numbered to 20 copies and was a dual color swatch. The fact that it's card # 64 in the set alerts me to the fact that there are a TON of jersey cards like this for many different players.

Blue Chips Jersey

Here's another Jersey card. Remember in 1996 when the first jersey cards were made by Upper Deck? They came at astronomical odds and are still pretty valuable. Now as people complain about, recent jersey cards are not worth very much due to over-saturation. Still, the alternative is to have endless insert cards that don't mean anything like in 1995. Guess we can't go back now. Pead isn't looking as weird on his card as Robert Turbin.

Update to the Challenge!

Update: The next card that ended soonest on eBay was.... a set! The 1990 Vikings Police set certainly would never have been on my radar before this challenge but the BIN was reasonable enough. I decided against trying to find a cheaper price and just went for it. My feeling is that these don't come up for sale very often. It's a local issue, oddball type set that you would not find at a card shop here in Denver. Once I get the set in I'll post a card day by day. There's 10 cards in the set and this might be of interest to some of you newer collectors that only focus on the "hits" and autographs of 2010 and later. Checking some of the message boards I see people calling 2009 cards "vintage" which is crazy. With a new set coming out nearly every week though 2009 certainly can feel vintage. I think vintage is anything 30 years older or more. Since a generation is considered 30 years it makes sense that any cards produced a generation ago would be considered old wax. That makes vintage under this definition 1983 cards and earlier. Elway's rookie is still considered modern, till next year that is.

Not Vintage....

2012 Limited Adrian Peterson

Another base card but hey, it's of the most popular football player on the planet right now. Adrian Peterson cards command a huge following from collectors. What's not to like about a guy that gets over 2K rushing after an ACL injury? I avoided him in last year's fantasy draft and wow, that was a bad choice. That being said, who would have predicted this? Certainly no analyst, pro scout or coach in the game today. There are 16 different cards in 2012 Limited featuring Adrian Peterson. There are only a handful of autographs released in this product. The gold version is numbered to 5, oddly enough, same amount of copies for the silver and the platinum.... 1. This means that there were only 11 total autographs of AP you could pull from this product so the odds of actually doing so would be nearly impossible. Guess I'll settle for this base card for the time being!