Card of the Week: Football & TV Stars, Fred Dryer

Continuing the theme from last week’s Gary Hogeboom card, this week’s football star turned actor is Fred Dryer. Dryer was a star at San Diego State University (a teammate of Rocky’s Carl Weathers) before being drafted in the first round by the New...

Card of the Week: 1987 Topps Gary Hogeboom

I’ve been reading a lot lately about football players wanting to become actors–Jason Taylor was on Dancing with the Stars, hoping to kick start a career in show business.  And Terrell Owens recently appeared on an episode of some ridiculous show starring...

My Thoughts on Price Guides…

Just came across a post on Sports Cards Uncensored, responding to a post on The Baseball Card Blog, regarding the state of price guides in the industry.  I started to leave a comment on SCU, but when I saw how long my comment was, I decided maybe it was worth a full...

Beckett…What Can I Say?

As of this morning, I was ready to write another post criticizing Beckett–no, not for their box break videos that feature apparently loaded boxes (I spread the blame equally between Beckett and the card companies on that one)–but rather because it was a...

2008 Topps Progressions

Stopped by the local card shop yesterday, as per usual with no real intent of picking anything up (I was actually dropping something off this time). And, as often happens, I walked out with a box of cards, as it was the first time I’d been in since 2008 Topps...

2008 Playoff Prestige Football Review (kind of)

Sorry for the lack of posts lately–I haven’t forgotten or given up, I just picked a really crappy time to start a blog devoted to football cards, heading into the offseason.  And even with the new product coming out, it’s kind of a lull right now, as...