Cheap Wax Wednesday Box Breaks: 1994 Sportflics Football
1994 Sportflics Football features a 184-card base checklist. Those cards, of course for anyone that knows Sportflics, feature lenticular technology. This gives the cards the illusion of showing movement through a couple of photos of the subject.
Also included is a nine-card subset simply called Starflics, which features players on 3-D cards.
There is a full set Artist’s Proof parallel to chase, landing about three times in every two boxes. In addition to the parallel, there are three insert sets. Just one, however, will be found in every box. Rookie Rivalry inserts are found a couple times per box, while the other two inserts sets are tougher to find. Head to Head cards are found once every couple of boxes. The toughest, though, Find the Football inserts, are found just once in every 480 packs. Being that tough to find, they must be valuable, right? Well, most of them can be found for $5 or less.
If you enjoy pulling rookie cards, there are 33 included on this checklist. That is the good news. The bad news? The 1994 rookie class wasn’t very deep. The best of the bunch are Marshall Faulk, Trent Dilfer, and Willie McGinest.
1994 Sportflics Football Box Break
Cards per pack: 5
Packs per box: 36
Price paid: $56
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Pack 1 and 2 highlights:
Ronnie Lott, Barry Sanders, Andre Rison and John Elway
Our first look at one of the Starflics subset cards in the Elway. I like the look of these!
Packs 3 and 4:
Emmitt Smith, Joe Montana, Boomer Esiason, Johnnie Morton RC and Vinny Testaverde
Packs 5 and 6:
Herschel Walker and Natrone Means
Packs 7 and 8:
Trent Dilfer RC, Jeff George, Troy Airman and Jim Harbaugh
A quartet of quarterbacks!
Packs 9 and 10:
Garrison Hearst, Thurman Thomas and Reggie White
Packs 11 and 12:
Barry Sanders, Deion Sanders and Steve Young
Packs 13 and 14:
Ricky Watters and Joe Montana
Packs 15 and 16:
Shannon Sharpe, Rod Woodson and Raghib “Rocket” Ismail
Woodson was coming off a 1993 Defensive Player of the Year award after intercepting eight passes.
Packs 17 and 18:
Willie McGinest RC, Jerome Bettis and Ron Moore Artist’s Proof (1:24 packs)
Packs 19 and 20:
Marcus Allen, Errict Rhett RC and Rick Mirer
Packs 21 and 22:
Irving Fryar, Herman Moore, Randall Cunningham, Jerome Bettis, Ben Coates and Alvin Harper
Pack 23 and 24:
Troy Aikman and Cris Carter
If you look closely at his jersey number, you can see the Carter photo is reversed.
Packs 25 and 26:
Brett Favre and Carl Pickens
Pack 27 and 28:
Barry Sanders, Warren Moon, Drew Bledsoe, Emmitt Smith and David Palmer/Ryan Yarborough Rookie Rivalry (1:18 packs)
Pack 29 and 30:
Derrick Thomas, Sterling Sharpe, Andre Reed and John Elway
Pack 31 and 32:
Marshall Faulk RC, Junior Seau, Steve Young and Dan Wilkinson/Sam Adams Rookie Rivalry (1:18 packs)
Faulk was selected second overall behind Wilkinson. Faulk would, of course, go on to a Hall of Fame career, getting elected to the Pro Football HOF in 2011.
Pack 33 and 34:
Scott Mitchell and Jeff Hostetler
Pack 35 and 36:
Thurman Thomas, Reggie White and Barry Sanders
Lastly, the Barry Sanders card back. These cards have quite the layout — it feels like there are words and numbers going in every direction.
I always liked Sportflics products, but some collectors don’t necessarily share that opinion. I do like the Starflics 3-D subset cards a lot and wish they would’ve released a set with all 3-D cards. Unfortunately, none of the tough inserts were in this one, which means there are more left for all of you to pull!
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