I'd like to get back into it, but gosh, 8 bucks for 12 cards now? That's insane. I remember getting my money from my paper route when I was 12 and spending half it on cards. I have a fairly nice collection, but no real 'ringers'. My dad bought a pack of Score '90 and he ended up with Troy Aikman, Barry Sanders and Deion Sanders he got some other guy too, but I fail to remember his name.

He has a Dan Marino rookie card too.


Collecting cards just seems so bleh now to me. I remember when looking up a card was simple. Now when you page through your Beckett (which is like a phone book!) you have to search through something like two dozen different card manufactures. I still have some Becketts with Shaq, Jordan and some the ones from the 90's.

If you had a Barry Sanders autograph, I'd drive down there right now to get it. I have a picture that has a Barry Sanders signature on it, but I don't know if its real. I used to write the Detroit Lions when I was younger and send them things to have Barry sign. I'd get my items back, and then one of those 8x10 deals with a signature of Barry Sanders on it.

I'd like to meet him in person and have him sign the rookie cards I have of his. Some say that is stupid to do without a certificate, but I don't collect cards for money. I would know it was his and that's all that would matter.

I can just see Leroy standing behind his S.U.V. shaking his head, and looking at what looks like 120 smashed jars of Cheeze Wiz.

I'm the same way Zero. In fact, on the wall above my computer i have the Brett Favre "Classic" pre-rookie card i had Favre sign for me when he was coming off the practice field in 1992. I also have a Bart Starr card with it, signed "To Alan, best wishes, Bart Starr". They have no "certificates" with them, but i don't care one bit! They were signed for me, and i got to see it. How can ya beat that? I would never sell them, so what do i care? Many of my recent things i have had signed in person, i have talen my camera along to document it. Like the Ryan Grant signed mini Lambeau Field helmet. But it's NOT so i can sell it. It's only so that i can put the picture with the helmet, thus bringing back the memory for me.
I have signed cards and an 8x10 photo of Ray Nitschke, and i wish i would have had my camera with me that day. I could have had my pic taken with him.

Not true. You were not "Cheesey" back then. Not even "cheesey". You still had on your training cheese at that time. Most likey you were still a run of the mill "cheesy". And they Sir are a run of the mill bunch. There are 1000's maybe even millions of them running around. If LB kept the car in storage (cold storage of course.) until now, well that would be an entirely different story. Or a cheese of a different colour. (note the British spelling for our European friends.)