Double D retires and I only wish I could go to Lambeau to see it.

You don't see career long Franchise players in football much anymore.  At least not ones that aren't quarterbacks.

Today Donald Drive announced his retirement and it brought a tear to my eye.  Not so much that he's retiring, but that he's retiring as a Packer.  Sure this last season his role was greatly diminished and he didn't get a lot of touches, but he did make plays and every now and then you were reminded that this 14 year career Packer is still a man you have to account for.

I'm glad he got his ring and I was hoping he'd get one more.  But I raise my glass to number 80!  The man affectionately know as Double D and one hell of a football player.  From this lifelong Packers fan I will miss you, but I'm hoping that maybe the Packers realize what a great asset you would be to the club off the field.

I don't own any Driver autos, something I'm probably going to have to remedy.  But I do have a couple really nice cards that I'll have to feature here later when I can get them scanned.

Right now I'm just a little sad and happy that I won't have to see number 80 play for anyone else.  It's a little selfish sure, but really how many Jerry Rice fans wanted to see him go and play for the Raiders?

cb out

Crickets?

Wow it's been awhile since I stumbled into the LWFL blog.  After my little hissy fit about the replacement refs, I got into the season watched the Packers put together a pretty good season only to watch them get their asses handed to them by the 49ers.  Nothing really too exciting happening on the collecting front either. There have been some really nice cards popping up, but I'm way to cheap.

There was this great Double D auto relic from Limited.  Which ended going for about 32 bucks, numbered to 25.  I'm going to miss Driver.  He took a reduce roll to stay with the team, I'm not sure how much Donald has left in the tank, but I'm sure he won't be back on the Packers roster next year.  One of the greats.

Speaking of greats.

Saw this Crown Royale beauty up for auction last week as well.  It went for only 27 bucks, number to 75.

And one of my all time favorite players and a guy that signs TTM very consistently.

This beauty pulled in $55 and is numbered only to 25.  A great swatch of what is either a piece of the sleeve or pant, I'm thinking pants.  I miss Sterling, but if there is anything good on the NFL network it's his show.

So sorry for the lack of posting and sorry this is a half assed post, but now that football is over for me it time to start looking toward baseball!  Less than a month till pitchers and catchers report.  

Boycott the NFL

After watching this Monday Nights Football game I am now boycotting all things NFL till the NFL and the Refs resolve their labor disput. Get off your ass Godell.

2012 Topps Football Team Set

Finally got around to putting the 2012 Team set together for the Team set collection.
18 cards in the base set, which is nice because it takes up two full 9 pocket pages.

I week to go

Man I'm getting excited.  Regular season officially starts in a week (at least for the Giants and Cowboys) and the Pack gets to test their mettle against what was a pretty decent 49ers team last year. I'm really hoping that all those defensive draft picks work out, cause we need it, and I'm also excited to have a veteran running back in the back field to mix it up.

3 Months already.

Wow has it really been 3 months since I posted on here?  Yikes.  Well to be honest it's been quiet in the realm of the Packers.  We won't be making any waves in the draft and we don't seem to have any drama brewing with the team this off season.  I've picked a few cards up. Read a few articles about the health of the team, yada yada yada, but since the only football releases have been insanely high end or Panini, I've not been in a football mood. That said the real reason I wanted to post something here is so I don't get booted off the blog rolls for inactivity and can reset the clocks.  Petty I know and I apologize if you read this post thinking there would be something of substance. I've been pretty busy posting over at Collector's crack and even on a  few of my team and player specific blogs, just not here.  I will share my one and only Packers TTM success so far.  I've only sent one so I'm batting 100%. Plus if you read Collector's Crack you've already seen this.

One is for me the other for part of my brother's birthday present.

I just picked up a set of 89 Score Supplemental football for super cheap and am half tempted to send Sterling's rookie card to him to sign as well.  I think I got these two back in less than 2 weeks.
I sent them to the NFL network address. You can see the full write up over at Collector's Crack.

My new Favorite Jordy Nelson Rookie Card and an spiffy new AJ Hawk card.

I was digging through my eTopps cards that I just got and found this great Jordy Nelson rookie from 2008.

I really like the 2008 design and it's numbered to 699.  Too bad eTopps is now dead but there are some great cards out there.

I also just got this bad boy in the mail.

You can just see the white peaking out on the left.  A great steal if I do say so myself.