Retailing

I only need a handful of cards to wrap up this base set, let's make one attempt before I post a wantlist and look for singles. This wasn't the best idea on my part, as I needed 11 base cards beforehand, and after this, I still needed 11.

I have to show off some base cards, right? I know I showed this one when I was recapping my hobby box, but this still deserves another spotlight.

I know that when recapping the box, I complained about how the great photo choices weren't transferred to the rookies. But this precipitation-enhanced photo is a standout.

You're promised 4 purple parallels in the hanger box, and these were the regular base cards I landed ones of. Incredibly, both these two were part of the 11 regular base cards I needed for the set. Perfect.

I'm not sure why the purple extends all over the veteran base cards, but not the rookies. Shurmur was undrafted, but signed with the Chiefs.

The inserts are also given the parallel treatment in retail releases. Of course, the one I get is from my least favourite subjects for insert sets - fantasy sports.

That's a good enough choice for a card to segue into the inserts in the box. More Fantasy Stars with the regular cards, but at least this has super intense eyes on the photo.

Yup. These are still obnoxiously shiny in retail.

Strange that the cards you'd imagine to be obnoxiously shiny, especially given some of Epix's past usage of foil. The moment is supposed to be of Zeke leaping over an opposing player, but you'd think they'd at least try to include the hurdled player.

Celebration was probably my favourite subset last year. The Mile High Salute during the Steelers game was the specific one getting the nod in this photo.

But at least I got a bright red player-worn swatch in all this.

Anyhow, I've finally updated the set building wantlist to include the cards from this set. Only two weeks after busting this. Efficiency!

Bills! Bills! Bills!

I haven't done a Bills post in a bit, so let's show off some more cards that have shown up recently for that PC. Some from COMC, and some from a group break.

With December fully underway in Buffalo, here's a perfect card for that. 2010 Rookies and Stars had a small subset in the base set of 15 cards, all of which feature outdoor games and weather at its snowiest. A perfect Buffalo card!

As is this. Reggie Bush spent a season in Buffalo, and set a record for futility when he finished the season with -3 yardage. Yup, that's negative yardage for the lowest yardage for a player with at least 10 attempts. His only Bills card appears to be relics (and their parallels) from Select and National Treasures in 2016.

Wipe out the helmet logo and SAGE makes a card of Zay Jones commemorating his first TD. I'd rather they honoured his Star Wars themed TD celebration.

Off to a case break of Rookies and Stars, and these were the three Stars in the set. Only McCoy is still with the team. Yeesh. So many cards in this post that perfectly represent the franchise.

At least the rookies are still around. But now they have game photos at least.

This is probably the best card in this post, a parallel of 1st round LB Tremaine Edmunds numbered to just 5. I'm still more interested in his development than Josh Allen's.

And since seems better here than in the COMC portion, here's one of his autos.

Josh Allen, speaking of him, made a couple appearances in the base set. And yes, the foil is designed, for some reason, to look like a glitchy video feed.

And those have parallels as well.

And he also has relics. I've already got his auto, so a couple relics can go nicely alongside those. Zay Jones joins him on the first of the two.

There you have it!

One Card Only: The Bleedin' Splish-Splash Show

No word how many days the Tampa stadium was also a hockey rink.

The last of my Black Friday goodies

Actually, not really the last of my Black Friday goodies. In fact, I think this will probably take numerous posts to get through. 12 in fact. But, this was the final item I treated myself to:

Howzabout a case of cards from my favourite release of the past few years? I've wanted to bust a case of something for a bit, and when this was cheaply available, I thought this would be a fun way to use up the last of my COMC --> Blowout credit. So, combining this with my actual COMC Black Friday purchases should keep my blog busy for the next while, combining the two with random interruptions for other stuff.

And it is seriously fun to work your way through a case of cards.

ObCard:

Winter weather, if not the season itself, is here. So let's celebrate with a throwback uniform and helmet logo and with the snow flying.