I agree and disagree. I can't decide if I would be happier with (made up numbers) 100,000 vanilla Topps RCs of Luck like there were of Marino, or 100,000 RCs of Luck in 17 different flavors.
I like the variety and miss the simplicity at the same time, but you can't have both I guess. A good example is the Jerry Rice RC. I picked one up recently and my god it is an ugly card! (IMO) Would have been nice to have a few more choices.
My point is I don't think the total print runs are all that significantly different, it's just different ones for collectors to chase. Would you really want to collect a player and get his one Topps card per year and be done until the next year? That would bore me pretty fast.
I like the variety and miss the simplicity at the same time, but you can't have both I guess. A good example is the Jerry Rice RC. I picked one up recently and my god it is an ugly card! (IMO) Would have been nice to have a few more choices.
My point is I don't think the total print runs are all that significantly different, it's just different ones for collectors to chase. Would you really want to collect a player and get his one Topps card per year and be done until the next year? That would bore me pretty fast.