Picture Of The Week: Week 4

Welcome to a NEW Monday's only segment called, Picture Of The Week.

We all find Mondays to be tough, so I figured why not brighten them up a little with a picture. This could be an outdoor shot, it could be an animal, it could be scenery. Who knows. It's whatever my camera snaps for the week.

So, enjoy this week's Picture Of The Week with your favorite beverage. Preferably coffee obviously but whatever else you may enjoy to drink, coffee, will work as well.

 

Have a great Monday and week ahead.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

90's On The 9th:1997 Donruss Preferred Chain Reaction Terrell Davis

It's Super Bowl Sunday!

I will be there tonight to watch and watch the commercials. If it's not already obvious, I am a Chiefs fan tonight. I don't want to see the Eagles nor Saquon celebrating.

Not really caring too much about the halftime show, I don't even know a song by Kendrick Lamar, so will probably skip that and get re-loaded up on snacks.

And coffee. Speaking of which I need a refill now.

*gets up, brews a cup, puts in creamer, goes back to sit*

Speaking of Super Bowl Sunday, I chose a Super Bowl champ to showcase for today's 90's On the 9th.

Terrell Davis is a two-time Super Bowl champ and Super Bowl XXXII MVP when he rushed for 157 yards and 3 touchdowns against the previous champion Packers.

There are no odds on how hard it is to pull a Chain Reaction, but they are printed on a die-cut, plastic card stock with some foil.

 

The back of the card is numbered 3000.

The insert is called Chain Reaction because each player has a superstar teammate to place side by side with it. They connect together.

*takes a sip before closing up today's post*

I hope all of you enjoy The Big Game....maybe with some coffee. Let me know in comments who you are cheering on and thoughts on today's card.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Layered Part 3

*coffee is ready, cards and coffee are hot, let's brew this thing!*

When Jon and I were emailing back and forth about cards, he had asked me if I was interested in any 1997 Donruss Preferred base. Without hesitation, that was a big YES.

1997 Donruss Preferred football was one of my favorite products that year outside of Spx and EX2000. That was a great year for base cards.

Jon sent along a healthy stack that maybe could drive me to want and try to build a full/master base set.

There are 150 total cards in the master base set which doesn't sound like much until you really break it down.

These are the first level, Bronze. There are 80 of these and has a 5:1 odds of finding them per pack.

The next level are Silvers. These are 1:5 finds and there are 40 of them to chase.

 

Following the silvers are Golds. These fall 1:17 and have 20 to chase. I do have some of my own here already to add to this.

 

Finally, the final 10 which are Platinum level. These fall 1:48 packs. I have never pulled one nor owned one. Pretty cool card. Thanks Jon!

I will have to dig out some of these that I already have and see what I need. I can already acknowledge I will be needing some of the silvers, golds and obviously Platinums.

There is still one more post to go in this series. Stay tuned and keep your coffee hot for that!

Don't forget you can start to nominate cards for the 2025 Coffee Card Hall Of Fame!! Cards don't have to be autographs, patch cards, super star cards. It can be whatever you think is Hall Worthy! Find details and current nominations HERE.

Have a great Saturday. I have two basketball games today, wish me luck! Our season is almost at it's end.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Layered Part 2

Coffee is ready, cards are ready, keyboard is ready, so I guess I am ready.

Let's tackle Part 2 of my mail day from Jon from  A Penny Sleeve For Your Thoughts.

Now that I tackled all of the non-sport end of the mail day, let's check out some sports cards that were hidden in the layers.

 

I have a copy of this Ken Griffey Jr, but this one is out of the package so it will fit in my box of Griffey cards. Sadly, the voice part doesn't work, still cool though and love the photo.

 

I thought this card was super cool. It's made of really thick plastic like a backboard would be.

I think someone knows of my love for 90's Knicks basketball and my PC player of Allan Houston. This starting five was where my passion for basketball came from.

I always thought these had a fun design. I try to forget he played anywhere else but NY.

Upper Deck was always creative, they once even joined forces with Lego to create a Lego character and card to go with it.

I can't wait to add these to TCDB to see if I have them or not. After you reach a certain point in any collection you tend to forget what you have and what you don't. That's why spreadsheets and TCDB are so important.

Rivalries. Knicks, Heat, those were the liveliest of games in the 90's.

And the biggest surprise of the box was this card,

 

Andre Williams Tools Of The Trade rookie. What I love about these cards is the variety of relics and where they come from on the players uniform. They can be pants, jersey, gloves, etc. They were some of the best Panini relics. I am not sure I have this one or not, will have to check TCDB, either way I keep all relics and try to see how many of each I can add. 

That does it for Part 2. Still more to come from this mail day.

Don't forget you can start to nominate cards for the 2025 Coffee Card Hall Of Fame!! Cards don't have to be autographs, patch cards, super star cards. It can be whatever you think is Hall Worthy! Find details and current nominations HERE.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Layered Part 1

*coffee ready, takes a sip before doing a big post for today*

I assumed you have noticed by now, but I have added some posts on Sport Card Collectors to help me catch up on all of the drafts I have here. By putting up some quicker posts on SCC, it allows me to put more emphasis and time on the posts that matter more which are the ones I post here.

Not that some cool cards aren't being shown off there too. So, maybe check them out.

But being able to do some "quick" posts there will help me catch up faster here. Those quick posts though will be the last ones on that blog so enjoy them while you can :)

Now I want to get to today's post which will take a couple of posts in order to accomplish posting it all.

*takes a sip*

Jon from A Penny Sleeve For Your Thoughts contacted me a couple months ago and started to ask me about certain cards and if I would be interested in them still. He has read my blog long enough, and been a friend long enough, to know that I would be.

He told me at some point those cards would hit the mailbox and they most certainly did.

I didn't know what to expect in this box other than the few cards he mentioned in our emails back and forth.

After opening the box, I discovered that there were many layers to what he sent.

First, I came upon this note and surprise within.

Then layered with another note with more surprises.

And another layer under that with an even bigger surprise.

The more I dug through the layers I uncovered and found more exciting items.

There was such a mix of sports, 90's, non-sports and non-card items.

Keep in mind I am not posting everything that he sent. That would take many, many posts but instead I decided to post a taste of everything.

I didn't even know they made Gargoyles cards. It was a popular show but wasn't in my Top 10 favorites, I did watch it though.

I almost saved this card to post on Halloween, but I didn't.

Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves trading cards.

On sick days at home from school, I always put soaps on in the background until 3pm when Disney Afternoon came on.

I am not sure what these are, but love the images. I may use some of these for a Halloween post instead.

Jon obviously has read my blog and saw that I am a huge dinosaur fan. They were my jam before sports.

Speaking of of Dinosaurs, I always made sure to watch this. "Not The Momma!!"

  

I recognized this face immediately, it gave me "nightmares" as a kid. Yes, that's Robert Englund. Cool addition to my Horror nostalgia pc.

 

Then I found these two. They are the reason I got into writing and am still writing. I grew up wanting to write horror because of these two, but instead I write about pieces of cardboard with pictures. They are still the ones who influenced me here.

Thomas Edison. Inventor. Me Coffee Card Guy, Coffee Drinker. We are the same.

I don't know what this card is, but it's one of my favorite non-sports from the box.

Then I went all Happy-Happy Joy-Joy when I found these two in the box. I was a HUUUUGE Ren and Stimpy find. I was to Ren and Stimpy like kids are to Spongebob now. Saturday nights with SNICK couldn't come fast enough.

My favorite superhero. "I'm Batman"

I never watched Under The Dome with all of the shows I was already watching at that time, but maybe I should now. This is a pretty cool die-cut.

 

By now you are probably wondering what the other items were in the box...well...this was the first layer. These art cards came from The Dark Knight rises. The Dark Knight saga is probably the best Batman movies ever made.

And at the bottom of the box....

 

Yes!!!!! My favorite Darkwing Duck episode ever!! All the villains, all the heroes. all face off! This is sooo cool!! My childhood was split between Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Darkwing Duck. This is a great add to my DW PC.

And there you have Part 1 of my mail day from Jon. I told you it's a lot and there is still a lot more to go 

This is what I expect your faces to look like right now. In awe over what you have already seen and curious to see what's to come.

Part 2 will be posted soon.

While you wait, just soak in what you already saw and....

Don't forget you can start to nominate cards for the 2025 Coffee Card Hall Of Fame!! Cards don't have to be autographs, patch cards, super star cards. It can be whatever you think is Hall Worthy! Find details and current nominations HERE.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*