Monday morning coming down.

Ah nothing like a little Johnny Cash in the morning.  I haven't had a beer for breakfast in a long time but in college ho boy. 

Anyway, did everyone have a great Christmas?  Mine was pretty cool.  I got a house.  Pretty sweet.  Of course I've been blogging about the move for a few weeks now.  I have to say I'm enjoying home ownership.  I only wish it wasn't -10 outside right now and I might be enjoying it more. It sucks being stuck inside.  My fiance and I took the dog for a walk the other night and we were only outside maybe a half hour and our legs were numb and we were wearing long johns. 

It's taking me longer than I planned on getting the spare room situated. And man do I have a lot of cards and comics.  I've been weeding my way through the boxes decided what I can put out in the shed that the cold weather won't kill.  There's lots on my to do list.  But I have been finding all sorts of cool stuff, nothing scanned yet or photographed but I've found some great blogging fodder. 

Some blog updates.  As you can see I've change the layout of the Crack a little.  I've also been working on my other blog sites as well.  I really like my Rollie fingers layout.  I also got rid of my football counter that was over there and added the Blogger counter.  The football counter was linked to this blog and the Yount and Fingers blog and would count every hit to any site, even all my own hits as I was tweeking and proofing the blog.  So as you can see I've gone from almost 10,000 hits to just over 6,000 on this site.  So celebrating that milestone might be a ways off, however my 200th blog post is still coming up. I do believe I'm about 15 or so away. 

I also discovered the new stats tab.  Tres Kewl.  It lets you see how many hits you get, where they come from, ect ect.  I also finally figured out how to make a stand alone page and listed my Yount list over at the Yount collector.  I've been meaning to do that for while.  It's easier to put up a list of what I have then what I need or want.  I'll get around to going one over at the Fingers Collector too as soon as I get a good inventory.  And I plan on putting up a set needs page here too to help complete some sets that have been sitting around uncompleted for far too long.  And probably a trade bait page as well. 

It's been a slow card month for me.  I've been being good with buying a house and all but I did pick up a few pack the other day.  Mainly to get my week 15 Topps Redemption which was Tim Tebow.  I picked up a pack of Donruss Hockey, UD Black Diamond, Topps Prime, Bowman DPP, and Panini Gridiron gear.  Only missed one sport.  I got a nice dual patch Mark Sanchez Plates and Patches card outta the Gridiron but that was it.  I really wanted to put together a Topps Prime set.  It's just got great looking base cards but I picked up a few rack packs at Target a few weeks back and after comparing the retail and hobby I'd have to go after one or the other.  The hobby cards are twice as thick as the retail base cards.  But the fronts look the same.  No low numbered rookies in the retail though. 

Since I'm rammbing what a great day for the pack, decimating the Giants but wow what a great comeback for the Broncos. They might finish 5-11 this year.  But Tebow was pretty good I have to admit. And I got a great packer hoodie for christmas to wear out to see the game.

The giant G on the front is super stiff right now, it almost feels bulletproof. After wearing 3 days in a row my fiance made me wash it. 

Have a safe and happy New Years.

Week 15 Topps Rookie Redemption

This is a little late mainly because my browser at work wouldn't update that page so this might have come out on Tuesday like it was suppose to but who knows, I actually called this weeks winner in my head.  Seeing as when ever I write my prediction here it doesn't happen.
Anyways Week 15's Topps Rookie Redemption is.....

Tim Tebow.  He got his first start and lost but had both the highs in passing yards and rushing yards and 2 TD's.  Way to go Tebow.

The NFL chopping block.

Well it looks like Josh McDaniels is the latest in what seems like a lot of NFL Head Coaches this year getting fired.

I've read a few articles about it but I'm curious if what Broncos fans have to say.  And what about Tebow?  What about Orton?  What about a 3-9 team can be done this year? 

Topps Week 13 Rookie Redemption Predictions or nonpredictions

As I sit here wondering who could be Topps' week 13 pick, one name jumps out but every time I think there going to give it to who I pick this week. Well I would pick Chris Ivory who is honored this week with a eTopps card.

You can bet this card is shiny.

Unfortunately Mr. Ivory was Topps Week 6 pick.

So I'm going to tell you who is not going to get a Rookie Redemption card.

The unfortunate Dez Bryant who just had surgery to repair his fractured fibula.  Although he did have 1 catch for 14 yards and if this weeks uncarded rookies were that bad he might get one yet.  But he's out for the rest of the year so...

Tim Tebow doesn't have a card yet either but he didn't see any action this week so that would be lame to give it to him.  It makes me wonder though when the Broncs might give him a chance, as Orton really hasn't been doing a whole lot.  I was reading an article in this months Tuff Stuff with a story and interview with Tebow and the story is all about how waiting is the hardest part and with Orton revitalizing the team?  This article must have been written in week 4 before they went on there current slide.  Revitalizing the team with 3 wins I think there would be plenty of fans in Denver aching to see what the rookie could do.  Although to be fair Orton is in the top 10 ranked QB's right now, but he is #10. 

Sorry, Sorry. 

So this week I have no guess but I will continue my updates when the player is announced. 

Topps Week 6 Rookie of the Week Prediction

What is Topps going to do?  With Monday night football yet to be played I'm pretty sure who I would name as Rookie of the Week. And both of them were pretty decent.  This week was Colt McCoy's first outing as starting QB for the Browns and even though they lost he did a pretty damn good job.  But Tim Tebow also saw his first field time of the season.  Now to be honest Tebow only had one play as a back and did score a TD.  Colt threw for over 280 yards and had 1 TD he also had 2 picks.  Now if I were running things Colt by far had the best outing, but if I was a betting man I would say Topps will put Tebow as the week 6 ROW.  Why.  Well it's obvious with Colt's outing he's going to be back, Tebow is the unknown.  Might as well get him on the ROW card while you can I guess. 

I was  jawing with Don from Don's sportscards yesterday after the morning games and he thought Sam Bradford had the best rookie outing.  Which he did, but Bradford's already been ROW.  So this begs the question is Topps going to pick the best rookie every week or the best rookie that hasn't been Rookie of the Week yet?


We'll find out tomorrow.  To recap I think McCoy deserves the spot, but like I blogged earlier Tebow is the hobby's golden boy this year and I joked that he could come in the game and take a knee at the end of the game and get Rookie of the Week.  Now he actually came in for a play and scored a TD.