The first Saturday of college football is a mere four weeks away. Four weeks. This will be the 140th season of Michigan football. My Michigan-Michigan St. ticket arrived a couple of weeks ago. My brother-in-law is holding a Michigan-Wisconsin ticket for me. I'm trying to convince my wife to let me take our daughter out to Ann Arbor for a game. The three of us went as family to a game in both 2016 and 2017. Last year didn't work out as my wife was pregnant. I was in the grocery store yesterday and after checking out I walked by the magazine rack with its college football previews. One had Michigan as #5. I just don't see it. They lost some talent off that defense and the offense has wilted time and again against good competition. I think 9-3 is a realistic projection for Team 140.
Today's lone package is my second trade with TCDB member Driver8k and consists solely of football cards. 2018 Prestige set builders kicks things off:
Followed by some Michigan football additions:
The trade concludes with some Bama football additions:
As with many Saturday mornings I found myself out running an errand in the vicinity of our local Target. I noticed earlier this week that Topps Chrome was released so I stepped into Target hoping to find some in stock...
As luck would have it, they had a few blasters in stock. I forgot how much I like Topps Chrome. So disappointing that Topps is not in the basketball business as Finest, Stadium Club, and Chrome rank among my all-time favorite offerings.
I pulled some stars of 2019 for Owen's collection:
This includes a McNeil Prism Refractor.
I pulled a handful of base rookies I will hold onto for now:
We'll see if any of them pan out.
I am placing the remainder of the cards, including three inserts and two parallels, on my For Trade list:
I also picked up a Chronicles hanger box as I have become quite fond of the set. To this point I have been very lucky in pulling some strong rookies and only a handful of duplicates. Something had to give eventually - of the 30 cards in today's only 13 go toward building the base set:
While there are only 13 cards here I did manage to pull Luka and Ayton rookies, as well as my second Obsidian. Not too shabby.
Three green parallels were included in the box:
The Green Marquee pops nicely.
The remaining fourteen cards are all duplicates of base cards and will be available on my For Trade list:
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