2025 Adventures in Repacks - Part 11

 Time for one of these:

A Select of Gronk is certainly an interesting starter card.

A parallel almost immediately off the start. Musa Smith's entry is a Blue Factory Set parallel. I really like the design on the Joe Jurevicius entry, with the team logo etched in silver in the back. Pro Set takes us back to time when making the Pro Bowl as an Offensive Lineman got you two base cards in a set. The late David Patten would get a short mention this past season when Josh Allen joined the club of players to get a passing, rushing and receiving TD in the same game.

Patten's feat warranted a back-of-the-card mention as well.

We really need more players with names like Quentin Jammer, even it makes them sound like an indy wrestler in 1991. Ray Lucas was an easy inductee into my penmanship binder. He was probably a charter member.

Brody Eldridge will not make that collection. But at least it is an auto from someone that didn't get too many over his brief career. And there's a throwback uniform for a solid bonus.

It's an interesting photo choice for Childress, with him being in the background of the picture, but still the focus of the action. I just with there were more of the ball visible to see how successful his attempt at deflecting the pass was. Kicker card! The game-winning TD might have been a better choice for that Super Bowl photo, but I can pretend that it was from the game-winning drive.

The finale.

As always, enough interesting and enjoyable cards make for a good repack.

Raptors in the Mail

I have another envelope to recap, this time a Cards on Cards bubbler. I'm covering the stack of Raptors in this post, with a future post showing off everything else.

I'll hit a few of my favourites individually before really going through the stack. I pulled the winter version of this in my blaster of the product, so it was nice to see the regular version. I'm not sure why the Arrival themed card looks more like a departure lounge, though.

Speaking of that Winter set, here's a Premium Prizm parallel. I didn't get any Raptors versions of this in my blaster, so this is a nice little add to the binders.

Best photo in the bubbler? That goes to this rather different angle of a high-angle shot.

Compare and contrast! Base vs Shiny.

Powering through the rest of them, here's some reruns from the group break post. But those snowy rookies on the far side are both new to me, as I close in on completing the team base set from both this and the regular set.

And that Shead puts me two away. It is only Poeltl and the base version of that Quickley that showed up earlier. I will always love new Fred VanVleet appearances. 

Kyle Lowry is definitely an outsider in this group of cards, but it stays true to the parallel theme of some of the cards by being a bronze parallel.

That opening Barnes scanned really nicely for a foil/chrome entry. Gradey Dick is sporting one of the golden City Edition jerseys on his Select card. They're not bad, but they aren't close to this year's versions. Those will likely never have any future designs come close to their greatness. 

The finale. 

Now to see if I can get through the rest of the mailer with the miscellany by the end of next week.