Night Owl Cards

  Look at that card. Isn't that fantastic? That's what a football card should look like. Why shouldn't I have that card? No one can tell me I can't have that card. So I have it. Because I'm weak.   I've told myself over and over not to think about tackling another vintage football set, not until I finish the 1979 Topps set. Certainly I shouldn't try the '76 Topps set with a known expensive card that will surely be at the end of my completion rainbow.   But '70s cards are a weakness. They speak to me like no other cards. This is why I will never get to collecting old tobacco card Dodgers or Goudey Dodgers or whatever 100-year-old card because they do not have the magic that '70s cards do. Also, I'm weak.    More football sets I shouldn't be chasing. 1983? I shouldn't be even thinking about this until '70s stuff is out of the way. THERE MUST BE ORDER. But I can't resist. All of these were available at the baseballcardstore.ca an...

November is a terrible time for buying cards. It's even worse than December because in December you've either already purchased all your holiday gifts and are ready to treat yourself with the leftover final pennies, or you've given up hope and are waving the credit card at every checkout clerk who even glances your way. But in November, there is A Plan. You're going to focus on buying for other people. You have lists and a budget and are a Very Careful Shopper. This is important for someone like me with a job like mine. Cards enter my head only fleetingly and then are dismissed as sinful. Be gone, card thoughts! I'm shopping for OTHERS. This is also the time that I stop looking on ebay or COMC or anywhere else for cards. Collecting goals are on hold until the day after December 25th. When I do pick up some cards, it's always from a retail store, it's always during a trip when I'm Christmas shopping, and it's always something cheap. Thus, t...

(Remember when you were a kid and you hoped and prayed that there would be a snow day? Well, I do the same thing as an adult, because snow days still mean much less work for me. Even after all these years, school is a hassle and snow can be fun. Here's to appreciating snow -- I know that's difficult for some of you. Time for Cardboard Appreciation. It's the 99th in a series): I didn't play football in high school. I didn't play it at any level of school or in pee wees. I didn't even play it much on the playground or in a friend's backyard. We'd throw the football around a little. But full-on tackle football? Never did that. The kids in my neighborhood didn't really think about football that much. It might have been a product of living in the Northeast. By the time football rolled around, it was getting a little too cold to play outside (that's what our moms told us anyway). Football seemed made for watching on TV, not actually doing . F...