Three more packs, over lunch:
Pack 6:
#57 Marvin Harrison
#15 LaDanian Tomlinson
#118 Cedric Benson
#105 Lee Evans
#122 Carson Palmer
Despite Benson, that would be an ok fantasy football pack–if Harrison’s knee can hold up. He killed one of my teams last year.
Pack 7:
#72 Adrian Peterson
#179 Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie (#447/999)
#23 Tom Brady
#80 Brandon Jacobs
#37 DeMarcus Ware
Remember when the card number you got meant something? Well, I guess that was more on the Topps Baseball side–but you’re really gonna put the guy who’s on the box and on the packs in randomly at #72? It also looks to me like there might only be four Vikings in the set (Peterson, Tarvaris Jackson, Chester Taylor and Sidney Rice), unless I’m missing someone.
Pack 8:
#1 Anquan Boldin
#225 Pierre Garcon (#611/999)
#83 Kellen Clemens
#40 Brandon Stokley
#97 Kevin Curtis
Garcon has apparently looked good in training camp, but I doubt that means a lot of playing time this year, unless a couple guys get hurt. Clemens was possibly the biggest loser in the who Favre Fiasco–Pennington got cut, but will likely start in Miami, where the expectations will be lower, and the weather will be less likely to impact his rag arm throws. Say what you want about Clemens learning behind Favre–he never went out of his way to help Aaron Rodgers, so I don’t know if it will be much different in New York Jersey. Stokley didn’t deserve to make the checklist, and the Curtis card has to be one of the ugliest in the set, with the Eagles yellow and powder blue throwback on.
Overall, eight packs in, three rookies, one other parallel, and a red bordered Gridiron King–but no jerseys, no patches. Hopefully that bodes well for the rest of the box.
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