2026 Adventures in Repacks - Part 18.1 - Cubism

 

I've had this for several years now, I guess I should probably get to it and post the contents. I'm just going in order of the cards in the cube, but I'll be posting the contents occasionally. Which means it should take about a month+ to get through this.

The opener is a parallel, an unnumbered goal line parallel. Since it was the opener in the slider case, to say the condition isn't the best was an understatement.

Yup. I'm scanning everything. It beats typing out every set and every name. Both the first hidden card, and the last one of this first group of cards is a "traded" version. If you see a Jason Pierre-Paul card from after his fireworks incident, you're looking at the hand. How can you not?

I'm confident in my prediction that the worst human being that will appear in this repack in Kellen Winslow Jr. At least I know the address where I can send it for a TTM autograph for at least the next couple years. Luke Willson has been showing up on TV here recently, doing work on CFL broadcasts. Lawyer Tilliman provides a favourite older card feature of mine - infield dirt being visible. Newsome's Archives entry is from a set that would have been annoying to collate.

Since they retained the original numbering scheme for the back design, this looks like card #308. It is actually #62, as shown on the bottom. And even that would move around depending on the back design. Fun!

Horizontal cards finally show up, and they do so with a pretty nice looking photo of Ike Hilliard. Seeing Tomlinson in a jersey other than San Diego's is really off. Pro Set was the Official NFL card set in more ways than one, as shown by the final card in this grouping.

I'm not sure if Torrance Small is throwing the bomb on a trick play, or throwing a souvenir to the crowd, but given that he has passing stats at pro football reference, probably the former. He tried 3 passes as a member of the Eagles, with only one completion (to the opposition). I finally see a Bills card And for Brett Smith, if you  know his cardboard history with Sage, you're expecting to see a shirt appear. And it did...

on the back of that card.

Here's the final grouping of cards for this post, and we get our first hit of the cube. Tajh Boyd would never play a game in the NFL, but at least the Jets spent a 6th rounder on him, and not a 2nd rounder like with a 2/14 binder member several years later.

1 stack down - probably at least 5 or 6 more to go!

There you have it!