Deja Vu

*takes a sip, posting my Valentines gifts a few days late but it's better than not doing so. takes another sip and gets ready for another new #CardsOverCoffee*

Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I have been seeing a lot of Walgreens football box breaks recently on Twitter and many collectors bragging of the riches within. There were many collectors landing some pretty great packs in their breaks such as 2020 Select. One guy had even pulled a Justin Herbert rookie autograph from the pack or so he says. I see those boxes sold occasionally at my Walgreens, so I told my wife if she saw any, that I wanted a couple of them.

Guess what I got for Valentine's Day....you guessed it.....and she got me two of them!

*takes a sip, begins to show off the boxes starting with the one closest to the cup of coffee.*

Each of these boxes are produced by the Fairfield company and are $5 each. They come with a handful of cards and one pack. I didn't see how many cards come in the box and forgot to count for today's post, but I will say roughly twenty to twenty-five. 1:4 of these boxes comes with a hit.

Let's see how lucky I am!

*takes a sip, begins to rip box 1*

I will only show off the key cards in these breaks and not all the cards. Just so you guys know. Yeah, I am being lazy about taking a bunch of pictures to post. It's a lot harder since I switched to the light box to post a bunch.

The first box kicks off with a large stack of Sage cards with Davis Mills being the headliner. The rest? Well, they weren't worth the picture effort.

The Bengals! A team that should have won the Super Bowl this year if they hadn't borrowed the Giants offensive line for the game.

Roy Williams rookie insert

Shannon Sharpe Skybox base

Action Packed base card from 1991. This was a product line I always enjoyed.

Conley base from Contenders. One of the "newer" brand cards in the pack.

Lamar Jackson Highlight Reel insert. Not too bad and it goes into my PC.

And my pack........

2004 Pacific CFL. Sigh. Not even NFL. Guess it's better than those Leaf packs I have seen in past releases of these.

*takes a sip, begins to rip Box 2*

Now let's see if there was better luck with Box Two,

 

Hmmmm a vaguely familiar start with the same Sage cards and Mills again.

 

Ken Norton Skybox Super Bowl subset base

Haven't I seen this card before?

Wait...what?

A rookie Action Packed.

A parallel from this Panini Gaming set. Other than Conley, the only other "newer" card in this box.

And my pack.....

What in the peanut butter sandwich is this???!!!

Was it me or was there some deja vu in this two-box break?

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

Well, the thoughtfulness of my wife picking these up was great, but the breaks were as lame as can be. I have opened other Walgreens Boxes before and had more fun than I did with this one. I think half of the cards being no name Sage cards to kick off the box is the most painful part other than a CFL pack. I would have rather had some base cards from 1995-1999.

Thoughts on my break welcomed in comments and let me know if you have opened any of these and what luck or packs you found.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Opening One Of Those Walgreen Things

*sits down with a cup of coffee, reaches over the table to grab a package of cards that had been set there the day before. it's one of those Walgreen things as I call it.*

In 2020 with the height of everyone buying everything up, anytime I found anything interesting to rip, I bought if I had the funds. This includes those Fairfield repacks you find at Walgreens, which even sold out most of the time.

But I was fortunate with my timing and was able to pick up four repacks, two baseball and two football and have been sitting on them for a rainy day.

Guess what...it's a cold snowy one...so let's rip one of the football ones.

*takes a sip, begins to rip*

In every one of these packs/boxes, there are 75 cards and one manufactured pack. These boxes are about $5 and 1:4 of them come with a hit. The last time I opened one before the card gold rush, I pulled a no-name autograph.

I didn't want to post all 75 cards from the box, that would be a lot of pictures especially using the light box to do them. So I pulled out the key/my favorite ones.

The pack I found in my box was a 2015 Score retail pack. Too bad 2015 didn't have a better rookie class. I battled with myself on whether to open it or not, but I decided for now to keep it sealed for another rainy or snowy day.

The cards are an assortment from new to old which is all apart of the fun of opening one of these. There isn't usually a lot of junk in these or at least by my standards.

Joe Montana on the iconic Pro Set design and Jim Brown card from Topps Magic.

Fred Barnett towards my 1997 Skybox Premium set chase and a PC card in J.T. Turner of the Giants.

Another PC card in Cedric Jones, though I do have probably ten copies already. The Pro Line Jerry Glanville made me chuckle. I truly appreciate those cards and their photography. There hasn't been anything like it in the hobby since.

Two Hall Of Famers. I have always been a fan of Warner.

Frank Gore (looks so off in any uniform that isn't the 49ers) and Theismann. He still has his perfect leg in this photo but I am sure still has nightmares of LT,

 

Finally, we close it up with my two favorite card finds. Topps Gold Label was a beautiful product and I liked Taylor so this was an excellent find. Then you can't ever complain about finding a Bo no matter the sport.

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

This was a fun break for the price. I thought I did pretty decent with the Hall of Famer names in the box and some cards that I didn't show for my late 90's PC. I think the only other way to improve one of these is to include an insert or two. That would intrigue me even more.

I see myself opening up a baseball one the next time I open one of these.

Hope everyone has a great Sunday. God Bless!

Thoughts on my break are welcomed in comments.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*