ELIte

It's below 40 degrees out and gloomy, sounds like a good time for some cards, coffee and Cards Over Coffee.

So, with my coffee in hand, I thought we would dive into my latest Eli Manning additions.

With this morning's news of the Giants finally benching Daniel Jones in favor of Tommy Devito, it got me to remembering a time where this team didn't have a quarterback controversy. 

We had Eli Manning and things were great. Well, at least better. We had a quarterback to rely on despite the bad coaching and team built around him. That wasn't his fault. 

And don't say isn't that the same with Daniel Jones, no it's not. Just watch Jones play. He will make you spill your coffee.

Eli was always a pro and went with the flow on and off the field. He was someone you were glad to call your quarterback and since he retired, there hasn't been that. There simply hasn't. 

I expect the Giants to go into this draft and find "their guy" and hopefully turn this team around. I still think they are only a few pieces away from at least contending.

In the meantime, I will continue to celebrate and collect the two-time Super Bowl champion.

My latest additions are from the 2024 Elite football product. You can't have Elite without Eli. See what I did there.

I will kick it off with the rarest to the least rarest.

Green Status /10

Purple /49

Aspirations Red /99

Blue /99

Maroon /249

Status Sparkle /299

Orange /399

Status Explosion /875 (my favorite parallel of the group)

Green Disco not numbered.

Pink

Base

I can't seem to find a full parallel checklist for the product as there are multiple parallel lists and I am someone who likes it all grouped together, so I am not sure how many parallels remain that I don't have. I assume quite a few looking at other products and knowing how the market is flooded with them now.

While I wait for the next quarterback, I will sip on my coffee and collect Eli.

Hope everyone has a great Monday. I know because of the Daniel Jones news I am.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

IT'S DONE!

*celebratory brew has been prepared, creamered and sitting by the laptop. it's time for some cards over coffee*

*takes a sip*

What started off as a goofy idea, turned out to be a full-blown chase.

In 2022, I opened up a decent amount of Score football and pulled a couple of Kenny Golladay parallels. I am not sure what came upon me when I did, but I decided I needed to chase the rainbow.

And not the Skittles one.

I knew this wasn't going to be an easy task with 26 parallels to chase in Score. Twenty...SIX. They put way too many parallels out there now and this is low number compared to some in 2023 and 2024 where it was upwards to 40 and more.

Despite knowing the challenges ahead, I still pushed myself to do it.

And now finally, after two long years of chasing, I finally found the final piece.

 

Which wasn't even the 1/1. It was this Stars parallel /399. I assumed a ton of these would pop up being numbered that high, but this was the only one in two years I saw.

So, I put it into the magnetic case I put the rest of them into so it can go into the BCW Interlocking card frame I have set up.

It felt so great to finally lock it into place after so long. I had to enjoy a nice cup of joe to go along with this moment.

And here is the big reveal. I should add four more frames to this and maybe snag some of the autographed versions of this card to fill in the other spots or maybe I should just leave it as is.

Let me know your thoughts on what I should fill in the empty spots with in comments.

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

There is no better feeling than accomplishing a big hobby project like this one. Rainbow chases are hard and not something I ever suggest trying unless you have a lot of patience.

For me, it was two-years of wondering if I started this project and it wouldn't be able to finish it. I am not sure if I could have handled that. Just glad it worked out in the end, and I didn't have to go down that road.

Thanks for reading and hope you all have a great weekend.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Taste The Rainbow

*sits down, takes a sip and gets ready for a new post on Cards Over Coffee*

*takes another sip, copies and pastes a post from another blog that was supposed to publish there but decided to keep it here to only have one blog*

*another sip, does some editing and is ready for the post*

In the hobby when it comes to chasing rainbows, I treat it like Skittles, I want to taste the rainbow.

Not try the whole thing.

In today's hobby unless you have deep pockets, collecting an entire rainbow run of player is impossible. So, I just add a few of some of my favorite players just to see some color.

The recent player and card I chose is Eli Manning from 2023 Prizm Draft.

Even though I don't like college football or cards with college football uniforms, I find it a cheaper way to do a taste of the rainbow.

I landed one Eli for cheap, then got addicted.

I don't have the base card to kick off the chase, so I started with these first. Seems backwards, but base are easier to land at some point.

Silver Parallel

Gold Ice

  

Ruby Wave

And my first Snakeskin in my collection. This is a case hit SSP. Very cool looking card despite not being a fan of snakes.

Here is the overall look at the rainbow, what I have is crossed out (a couple are on their way) and what's left,

Gold Ice, Green, Purple Wave, Red Ice, Ruby Wave, Silver, Snakeskin, White Sparkle, Red /299, Blue Wave /249, Blue /199, Purple Ice /149, Red Finite /125, Blue Ice /99, Blue Finite /89, Purple /75, Gold Flash /49, Organa Pulsar /49, Red Flash /49, Orange Finite /39, Green Pulsar /25, Mojo /25, Gold Shimmer /15, Neon Pink Pulsar /15, Gold /10, Green Shimmer /8, Black Gold /5, Black Finite 1/1, Black Shimmer 1/1, Gold Vinyl 1/1.

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

I am not sure how many overall I will chase, but if I find some cheap ones, I will add them. No way I chase the full thing with three 1/1's as well. Panini has gone crazy.

However, as a side bonus, with each add to this run, it gets me a step closer to 1,000 different Eli Mannings as well.

That goal hopefully comes faster with a chase like this.

Hope everyone has a great Thursday!

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*