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Category Archives: Football
NFL Players Rookie Premiere wraps up at Rose Bowl
05.20
By Susan Lulgjuraj | Contributing Editor
The NFL Players Rookie Premiere wrapped up Saturday with players running around the field in their full NFL uniforms for the first time at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles while getting their photographs taken in various poses.
These are the images that collectors will get to see on a number of football cards this season.
It’s a busy and long day for players and card companies. Besides taking the photos under the hot sun in their uniforms, players are trying to catch up on the rest of their autograph duties.
The Rookie Premiere is vital to Panini America and Topps for the upcoming season. Without this three-day session, the companies likely wouldn’t have rookie autographs in their earliest products – or maybe many products at all during their first year.
Rookie Premiere: Topps goes oldschool with 1984 set
05.20
By Susan Lulgjuraj | Contributing Editor
Sure seems like Topps is into its oldschool designs this football season.
First, we featured a post on tallboys coming back, inspired by 1965 Topps. Now, let’s fast forward two decades.
Topps is bringing back the 1984 Topps design for another special round of autographs from the NFL Players Rookie Premiere this past weekend.
Rookie Premiere: Topps revives tallboys … sort of
05.19
By Susan Lulgjuraj | Contributing Editor
Topps is going vintage.
At least part of its 2012 football card product line.
The company debuted one of the 2012 autographs sets at the NFL Rookie Premiere this week, which is a design from one of its popular products in the 1960s.
Topps has brought tallboys back, the nickname given to the 1965 Topps oversized football card set — as a miniature version that may be found in 2012 Topps. (That product is confirmed to have unsigned 1965 cards.)
Rookie Premiere: Panini bringing back acetate
05.19
By Susan Lulgjuraj | Contributing Editor
The 2012 NFL Players Rookie Premiere is a great way to preview the upcoming football card season. With the pictures card companies are putting together, every little image helps in helping collectors find the cards they want to chase.
On the first day of the Premiere, the companies were big on getting on-card autographs.
In Panini America’s session, the company showed off dozens of photos. But take yours off the athlete and look at what they are signing. Some autographed strips of leather from a football or manufactured patch cards.
But what is so special about the picture above with Robert Griffin III?
Ripping Retail: A 1990s retro rip
05.17
With The 1990s Issue of Beckett Sports Card Monthly in hobby shops now and in newsstands soon, editor Chris Olds decided to rip into some 1990s packs for a Ripping Retro video from the early part of the decade.
What will he rip? What will he find inside? Watch and find out …
NFL Players Rookie Premiere starts today
05.16
By Susan Lulgjuraj | Contributing Editor
The NFL Players Rookie Premiere starts today in Los Angeles.
Why is it so important?
This is where the card companies – in this case, Topps and Panini America – get photos, autographs and event-used memorabilia for all of the Rookie Cards in this upcoming season’s products.
Without this event, the card companies would have to go to all the 32 different teams to get this many top rookies in one place.
About 35 rookies will be at the event, including 11 first-round draft picks such as Andrew Luck, Robert Griffin III and Trent Richardson, who were the first three picks of the draft.
First look: 2012 Elite Football
05.15
By Andrew Tolentino | Football Editor
Sleep tight, football collectors. Panini’s 2012 Elite will be visiting you soon in a midsummer night’s dream.
As the manufacturer revealed today (unfortunately, not in iambic pentameter), the beloved mid-level brand will land just after July 4 with time-tested product traditions and enough nuances to satisfy modern collector cravings.
First look: 2012 Score Football
05.15
By Susan Lulgjuraj | Contributing Editor
This year’s Score football card set could feel like a collector’s dream.
The 2012 Score set boasts 400 base cards – 300 veterans and 100 rookies – for one of the most expansive checklists in a football set this year.
But for many collectors the best part just might be the price at 99 cents a pack when it is scheduled to release in July.
Memory Lane auction brings in more than $2M
05.07
By Susan Lulgjuraj | Contributing Editor
The auction blocks have been hot and heavy with Honus Wagner‘s famous card, but that doesn’t mean the price has come down.
The hobby’s Holy Grail seems to be popping up a bit lately with the most recent auction of a T206 Wagner going for more the $650,000.
Memory Lane‘s Holy Grail Auction brought in $2 million with several sought-after cards and memorabilia pieces hitting the auction block.
The Wagner – a PSA 2 – went for $654,400. Last month, the hobby’s most iconic card sold for $1.23 million, which was graded an SGC 40. (Need a Wagner checklist or an OPG? Click here.)
Chargers great Junior Seau dead at age 43
05.02
By Chris Olds | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor
Junior Seau, a bruising linebacker for the San Diego Chargers throughout the 1990s, was found dead in his Oceanside, Calif., home on Wednesday, according to a report by TMZ.com. He was 43.
A fan favorite of many in Southern California after he was a first-round pick out of USC in the 1990 NFL Draft, Seau was a 12-time Pro Bowl selection and a member of the NFL’s All-Decade Team for the 1990s. He was a member of the Chargers Hall of Fame, and, in 2009, he was named to the franchise’s 50th Anniversary Team. Seau played in two Super Bowls — once with the Chargers in 1994 and the New England Patriots in 2007 before he retired in 2009.
In all, Seau appears on 2,308 different cards in the Beckett.com database, cards valued at a total of more than $19,000 before the news. (Need a Seau checklist or OPG? Click here.) He appears on six Rookie Cards from 1990 and was a tough signer for card companies as he appears on only 86 different certified autographs.