Gentlemen: Gale Sayers

I like, not love, the card design, but the signature stands alone in the light. I haven't seen any instances where Gale created a much different insignia. I love the unintentional way that both initials look like numbers (9, 2 backwards). I am like deleriously hungry, and may or may not be hallucinating. This also looks like it was a signature style that Gale picked up around 8th grade, when he had to start writing essays more. We all know an essay won't get graded without writing your name on it (I teach 18yr olds who still have a problem remembering. some of them must be stoned right?) Damn sticker auto, at least it doesn't cut the y off......wait I just wandered out of the light!
love,
Peterson

More is Less: Playoff Contenders

I will only leave this card at the top of my blog for the next 10 minutes. that is how ugly it is. I had a headache after seeing my JV Team take conditioning BP today (after finding out head coach is in a sling for the next 6 weeks), and this is a test of my will. That's it I'm posting. Damn, I looked again.
Donruss, more is less.

Another Time and Place...

This one's called "El Viejo". It belongs on a stained document signed by someone who knows where the "Pecos" is. and where to find the gold. in the desert. I want it.

If you are reading this...

...and have not been to the poll, please click here to Vote in the 2009 Gummies. More after the game.That is all.

Packers: For the Record

For the record (of 11-5, hopefully), these are a few of my favorite Packers AUtos in my personal collection. I got the Jones RC for about .99 plus shipping (Topps really put out some "brand new" crap in 07...) The Brandon Jackson Pull-out was one of about 9 pulls I got out of a Gridiron Gear hobby box the same year. (as I will get to, many of these "hits" were created using event-worn materials: see below) I dig the pull-out as it is the only one I own and it is a packer RB (whom is currently back on thin ice, direct from the deep-freeze of my unacceptance). He better have another good game backing up Mr. Grant...If anyone has a good looking Ryan Grant Auto I will shower you with shortprints.
The last two I bought seperately on eBay (the only place I've bought singles up til now)
The Driver is from SP rookie threads, one of my favorite Football sets from that year, mostly attributed to the cardstock, and with a healthy dose of my ignoring the "event-used memorabilia" that is found in here. that stuff is bulls***. He put the jersey on, maybe...maybe for a photo, and then took it off to sign more stickers and topps cards. I think the ends do not at all justify the means at that price point. make a cheap, jersey-packed product for the masses, and use these jerseys. Don't use this kind of trickery to prop up other failing releases.
The Matt Flynn is just a great looking card that hides the sticker fairly well with the fancy filigreed victorian eye-candy. (I love Olg English/Colonial done well on a card in the right theme. This does not include 2007 Artifacts patches).
GoPackers
peterson

Ones That Speak To Me: Greg Halman

The cut off scan does not do this card justice. Greg used almost the exact middle 2/4 of the box, didn't cross over his own line once, and appears to have spelled "Halman" with an uppercase cursive "G"...nope look to the right...BIG H. Greg just lays this one out in the middle of a spate of fresh-sharpie greatness. He is also the #1 Mariner's prospect for '10 (get used to it) and I could not pass up an auto, refractor, and photo of this card for a whopping $7 last spring. A classic Sky-shot with the right proportions.

I am an amateur photographer, and I have studied proportions and their role in human perception. That being said, it still boggles me how some cards not like this get printed.

Still looking for some traders out there. Check your emails or email me...Haven't traded in years, and am really sick of eBay. I am tired of selling away "valuable" cards and keeping base collecting dust. TONS of tradebait up for grabs, I am very eager to downsize with new family forming(albeit slowly) and I am mad generous. just email me your interest and I will check your wantlist. my wantlist is real broad, and since autos can get pricey, I am also very interested in fair-good-VG vintage cards of any team or player. I have TONS of 07 and 09 A&G,06-08 Topps heritage, 07 Goudey doubles, and bits of every other set released between 2005-2007.

Thank you and good day,

Peterson

peterson238@yahoo.com

Best unliscenced, sticker-auto I have seen to date. (is that the bat-symbol in the "E" of Americana? sorry that just caught my eye. I found a fair amount of images of the checklist of this subset while floating in the reatail world. There are two different coices for photo. "The player" or the "Hall of Famer"The photo of a young Johnny is so much nicer than some of the other double-chin, unavoidable, over-the-hill look from the night they were inducted into the hall, all stubble and rolls. I would certainly like to be remembered with a smart-looking photo of me taken during my playing days, not bloated at the podium. I didn't even have the heart to put up the "Hall of Famer" images. My Cal never looked like Dr. Evil and never will.

Craftsmen: Jame Lofton (Packer Playoff edition)

Congratulations to the Packers for making a play-off run possible for 09-10. I can't wait.

Mr Lofton Here brings me back to a different talented receiving core in Packer history. Ahman Green is is back, we have an unselfish quarterback and a couple guys named Jennings and Driver who know how to keep their mouths shut and produce.
The Star: the ultimate commitment in an autograph nowadays is the "jersey number"...the star is for only a select few. I truly appreciate the fact that Mr. Lofton used both of his "Major Letters" to exhibit one of each. The card designs here are kind of hurt up, but both the vertical and horizontal orientation work, well.

Casual Fingers #3: on the ball.

I know someone whose signature does not suffer from being written on a curved surface. I am not looking at you Mr. Sizemore.

Congrats Coach Favrett and Tigers Football

Yeah it's just a ring ad, but this is the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Championship ring. For the first time since I can remember (since hearing of Hampden-Sydney in 1991, and my graduation and subsequent alumnus status after 2001) that the Tigers were able to take the ODAC conference in football. I wish I was paying closer attention nowadays. Games were a regular activity for me. Shirt and tie, bourbon and finger sandwiches. I made a really off-the-cuff choice of schools. I wanted to pick one where an oft-recycling Yankee with long hair would stick out. I did a little too well.
Sorry for the delay boys, but I waited too. Congratulations. I promis I will make the hour-plus drive for a game this coming season. even if you won't let me drink outside anymore...

I thought I would give a shout-out to what I was doing for part of the time when I wasn't collecting cards. at all.