It was a slow week in the NFL for Rookies, I guess.

As I have been posting this football season I'm going to try and get a whole set and then some of Topps' hobby store redemption program Rookie of the Week cards.

This week their pick is Max Hall.  And all I can say is that it has to have been a super slow week in rookie stats for Max to be the Rookie of the Week.

Here is what Topps posted.

"Cardinals QB Max Hall's first career start was a triumphant one in Week 5, as he injected some much-needed life into a struggling team and rallied them to an upset over the Superbowl Champion New Orleans Saints. The undrafted BYU product showed toughness and poise as he completed a solid 63 percent of his passes, entrenching his spot as the starting signal-caller in Arizona."

What he actually did was throw for 163 yards, 1 Interception, 2 fumbles(recovered by one of his lineman who made the TD and the other for a positive yard gain),  with a QB rating of 65.  He made 17/27 passes, which yes is 63%. 

Yes the Card's won.  But it was their defense who won that day.  At least Hall admitted that in his interview.  Still if this is what makes the Rookie of the Week the bar is pretty low.

Now it sounds like I'm being a dick here and maybe I am a little.  But I have no hate for Max Hall, as a matter of fact I wish him all the best.  I'm a secret Cardinals fan ever since they pulled off their miracle win against the Vikings years ago to put the Packers in the playoffs.  Plus Larry Fitz is freaking awesome.

I'm just saying that I don't know if Max deserves the Rookie of the Week award, but then I guess I wouldn't know who would this week.  So congrats Max have a good bye week and good luck against the SeaChickens in week 7.   On a side note and as cynical as ever, if Tebow actually gets to play a game this season, and I mean actually play, not just hand off the ball in a Denver rout or take a knee, although it probably wouldn't matter, he could get 4 intercepts, post negative yards, and score for the other team and still be rookie of the week,  with all the Tebowmania going on, although it does seem to have cooled off.

I think I'm going to go buy a few packs of Chrome football this afternoon and get me a redemption card.

cb out.

Some thoughts for the day.

Well we are past week 5 moving on to week 6 in the NFL.  My team is pretty much done.  The Pack is 3-2 but pretty much the whole team is hurt so I'm not expecting any more wins.  This way I'll be pleasantly surprised when and if we do.  And while there are no undefeated teams left, there are still 3 totally defeated teams left.  The Bills, 49er's, and Panthers all have yet to get one in the win column.  And while I'm sure none of them will come close to Detroit's anti-awesome season in 2008 (0-16) I can look over yonder and say at least I'm not rooting for those guys. 

That being said there are some nice surprises around the league.  Peyton Hillis over in Cleveland is proving a great asset, now they just need a quarterback, and this week we'll probably get to see if Colt McCoy can do it.  I love rooting for the underdog, as long as he ain't in my division.  Randy Moss showed he's still got a little left, and a rookie running back might give the Lions a little hope, just a little.

Of course there have been some not so nice surprises lately, besides all my Packers getting hurt, mainly having to do with Brett Favre's dong.  Some people are so dumb.  It's like all these stars with sex tapes.  If you don't want anyone to ever see it don't record it. 

Well the MLB Championship games set to start in a couple days well have a few more weeks of baseball excitement.  Hopefully more exciting than most of the playoffs. 

That's about it, oh I bought a box of Topps Chrome Baseball, shoulda waited for Football.  I'll post that soon too.  Very disappointing, you'll see why.
cb out

Best day of the year in Alaska, PFD Day!!!!

Ah sorry I should so happy.  This probably sounds of bragging, it's not though it's lamenting and whining.  Today is PFD day in Alaska, at least for us who embraced technology and direct deposit.  For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about every year the state of Alaska gives out a check to all the qualified residents who applied.  PFD stand for Permanent Fund Dividend.  It was set up back in the 70's with oil revenue and first dispersed in 1982.  This year we are getting $1281 bucks.  Probably almost makes you want to move up here huh?  Just a warning it gets a little cold up here in the winter.

I was so planning on rushing over to my local card shop and trying to finish my Topps Platinum set or perhaps buy a few boxes of chrome.  But alas my fiance and I are in the process of buying a house and both of our dividends, as they are know, are going to things like house inspectors and title insurance.  But it'll beat paying rent to faceless corporation who's only goal is to screw me out of my deposit.  But I will be hoisting a few this weekend as the Packers take on the Redskins.  We'll get you Donovan McNab oh yes we will.

Topps' Week 4 Rookie Redemption is out.

This might have come out on Tuesday like it was suppose to but it took me to today to find the link to the page that announces it.  If this is one of your big promotions wouldn't you put it up on the front page of your website?  Again it just shows how bad Topps is at this whole internet thing.

Anyways this weeks rookie is none other than the #1 draft pick Sam Bradford, who had a great game last week against the Seahawks throwing for over 280 yards and 2 TD's.  In my opinion he should be getting more hype than Tebow, as he's actually playing and not hurt. 

My accidental Treasure

Well I was perusing the blogroll this morning at work and noticed a post by JD's daddy over at JD's Wildcardz about accidental treasures.  These are hits or card you get when you least expect it.  And it just so happens that it happened to my last night at the grocery store.  So I posted a reply on the post and JD's Daddy said he'd like to see the treasure so here it is.

But first a little back story.  I was picking up pizza fixin's at the local Fred Meyer's(Krogers) on my way home.
I walked past the card display and couldn't resist picking up a couple packs of Topps Platinum.  I've been slowly putting together my set and figured if there were some fat pack, ie ones with rookie variation cards I'd grab them and lo and behold the box hadn't been picked over yet.  I was hoping that that's what the fat pack meant.  I know in Hobby boxes the fat packs are the ones with the rookie variations and sometimes jersey cards but the skinny packs got the auto's.  I like that the Topps bluffs are actually collectible not blank pieces of cardboard and every time I pick a pack up at the card shop they give me the skinny packs, which I have picked up a few nice auto refractors.

So out of those 4 packs I got 3 rookie variations and this gem which blew my mind coming from a retail box in a grocery store.

I had no idea Topps was putting these kind of cards in the retail boxes.

I wish I was more of a Chiefs fan, but damn that's a nice card.

Jamaal Charles/Dexter McCluster  Dual auto Dual patch card #d to 25.  One patch 4 color one 3 both with stitching.  Damn nice accidential treasure.

TTM Bob Uecker Success Failure

I know your saying Success Failure what the??!!??!?

Any who I sent out a few customs about a month ago here they are.

Anyways for those of you who don't want to follow the link I sent Mr. Baseball Bob Uecker a custom card to sign.  I sent it to Miller Park and here's what I got back.

Yep it's my custom back unsigned.  So that's the failure but I did get this nice letter.

Which begs the question just what is Mr. Uecker authorized to sign???

And they did send me this too.

I get my addresses from http://www.fanmail.biz/ and looking through the feedback for Bob he has or rather the Brewers have been sending this auto picture out for over 5 years.  It's not a presigned as its a silver ink on the photo.  Could be Autopenned.  The letter says it was personally signed by Uecker himself but who knows.  The autos on all the photos look too perfect.  They're not all in the exact same spot but look way too nice and identical.  You would expect a little variation in the sig if he was signing tons of these over and over.

Here's the envelope for those who care over at fanbiz where I'm leaving feedback for this success/failure.

The site also lists an alternate address in Milwaukee so I might resend my custom to that address to see if I can get it signed it'll only cost me a buck.

What do you guys think?

TTM Jay Leno Success!

Just got back to town and found this in  my mail box.

My second TTM success. This was sent 9/3/10 and got it back around 9/29/10.  I'm hoping it's actually Jay's and not a secretary but from all the sig's i've seen there's been some variations but he usually sign's it Yo (your name), and his sig with his little face drawing on it.

Even better is the SASE it came back in.  The stamp wasn't even postmarked.

cb out