Almost the Easiest Super Bowl Contest on the Web VI - 2nd Reminder

Another reminder to enter my 6th Annual Super Bowl contest. Go HERE to place your official entry!!  Deadline is Saturday at Noon Alaska Time, 4pm EST.

Almost the Easiest Super Bowl Contest on the Web 6 reminder

Just a reminder that you have until Noon Alaska time, 4pm EST, on Saturday Jan 9th to enter.

Head on over to the official entry post HERE or you can click on the banner on the side bar.

Almost the Easiest Super Bowl Contest on the Web 6!! Official Entry Post

Hey Boys and Girls it's that time of year again and while I've been pretty silent on the blog I'm not going to let that stop me from holding my longest running contest.  I can't believe this will be my 6th Annual Super Bowl contest.  Yep 6 big ones.  I'm writing this up as the Pack and Vikings figure out who's going to win the NFL North, but both teams are going to the playoffs so let's get this thing started.  I have some idea of what I'm going to do for prizes, but I'll save that for a later post.

All you have to do to win this contest is tell me who's going to win the Super Bowl.  And as always we'll have a few tie breakers as well.
So tell me who's going to win, who the opponent will be, total points scored in the game (both teams), and how many turnovers (both teams.
So you entry should look like this

Green Bay over New England, 56 points, and 3 turnovers


And as always I'll have a door prize just for signing up and if you promote the contest you'll get an extra entry.

Here are you choices.

AFC
Denver Broncos
New England Patriots
Cincinnati Bengals
Houston Texans
Kansas City Chiefs
Pittsburgh Steelers

NFC
Carolina Panthers
Arizona Cardinals
Green Bay Packers
Washington Redskins
Minnesota Vikings
Seattle Seahawks

Alrighty this post will serve as the official sign up for this contest and I'll post reminders all week. You have until Saturday, January 9th, Noon Alaska time, 4pm EST.

Alright Good luck everybody!!

TTM Success - Ben Oglivie

Happy New Year everyone.  I had a very low key New Year's Eve as I was recovering from travel back to Alaska from the Lower 48 visiting family for the holidays.  

Back at the end of November I sent out two TTMs.  Just two.  And I finally got my second one back and it's kind of a big one for me.  I tried Ben Oglivie back in 2012 the same year he signed cards for Topps new Archives brand.  I never got a response.  But I had been seeing a ton of returns for him over at Sports Card Forum so I figured why not.  

I sent Ben 2 cards his 1980 and 1981 Topps cards.  The 1981 is a the first Brewers card from that set that I've gotten signed so it's nice to fill a hole.  The 1980 card marks the third I've for that set.  I have a small side project trying to get as many of the 1982 World Series team as possible and getting to finally cross Ben off that list is great.

TTM Stats
Date Sent 11/22/15
Date Received: 1/2/16
Address Used:

Ben Oglivie
1012 East Sandpiper Dr.
Tempe, AZ 85283

Holy Sheets

First off I want to wish all my Christian readers a Merry Christmas, and too the rest Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanza, Merry Festivus, Joyous Yule, or whatever your holiday flavor is.  And a Happy New Year as I will be traveling to see my wife's family this season.  I'm hoping maybe I can find time to make a few more posts in the new year, but I wouldn't hold my breath.  That being said my 6th Annual Super Bowl contest will be happening.  Not sure what the prize will be, but I have weeks to work that out.

But let's take a look a cool card that I recently added to my Brewers collection.  One of my collecting goals for the new year, which will be expounded upon in my State of the Blog post early next year, is to try to add more and many certified Brewer's autos to my collection.  This may seem daunting and expensive, but just a precursory search though the COMC inventory tells me that there are over 200 Brewers autographs for under $2.  I many not have any World Series' to boast about, but I do have cheap autograph cards.

That being said I ended up picking up this sweet, pun intended, Ben Sheets autograph card a few weeks ago.  I already have a certified auto for Ben, but he's featured in this Team USA jersey and I really wanted a nice example with him in a Brewers uni.  So for a couple bucks this guy found his way to my mail box.  

I couldn't pass up this unique card and the price was just right.  This card is from the 2002 Fleer Showcase set.  There are three types of Sweet Sigs cards: Leather, Lumber, and Wall. Ben has cards in all threes sets, with this one obviously being the Lumber version.  And while the wood piece isn't a bat relic, it's still a great oddball insert, for the time of great oddball inserts.  This is what competition produces!  After getting this card I really want to chase down the other two versions.

Star Wars!!! Star Wars!!! Star Wars!!! Star Wars!!! Star Wars!!! Star Wars!!! Star Wars!!! Star Wars!!! Star Wars!!! Star Wars!!! Star Wars!!!

Are you getting excited??  I am. I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much.  I've also stopped reading all the articles about the movie.  Went completely cold turkey.  I decided I didn't want to know any plot spoilers.  That being said I know it's been quiet here at the Crack, but I'm hoping the new year will bring new vigor to my card world.  Anyways, I'm going to be headed down to the lower 48 to visit family so let's let this Star Wars post also wish you a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Festive Kwanzaa, or a Joyous Yule.  Or simply a Happy Holidays and a great New Year.  Oh and I still plan on doing my Super Bowl contest this year so stay tuned for that.

TTM Success - Paul Mirabella

It's been a while since I've done any TTMs.  I sat down a few weeks ago and sent Paul Mirabella a nice letter and a few cards and I found these in my mailbox this afternoon.

Paul played 13 seasons in the MLB.  Playing for the Rangers, the Yankees, the Orioles, the Mariners, and ended his career with the Brewers.  This is a great success for a couple reasons but most of all that I don't have any TTM success for the three sets I sent.  

TTM Stats

Address used
Paul Mirabella
15 Jenks Rd
Morristown, NJ 07960

Date Sent: 11/22/15
Date Received 12/5/15

Thanks Paul.