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Let's talk football

Normally, I don't let the seasons dictate what I discuss. I'm primarily a baseball guy and a baseball card collector and it seems ridiculous to me to stop talking about such things just because we're in the offseason. I can't turn my love on and off like that. However ... There's almost two feet of snow on the ground, thanks to the storm that cut through the Northeast the last day or so, and there are two supposedly significant football games on the television. I can hear words like "Brees" and "play-action" and "THAT'S PASS INTERFERENCE! " These are not baseball words. And I'm freezing. It's practically silly to discuss baseball today. Fortunately, I have some football cards I need to post. Remember Jonathan? That guy who sent me the big box of cards? You though I was done with that big box? You think I ask too many questions? OK, I'll be quiet now and show some cards: Jonathan sent a whole bunch of Score ...

Saying goodbye to the '90s one set at a time

While I was posting all those wonderful cards shipped my way by Jonathan, I was undergoing a separate project on the side. You see, almost one entire column of the big box that Jonathan sent were Dodgers cards from the 1990s. And because I was not collecting for most of that decade and because there were so many sets issued then, it takes a long, long time to figure out what I need and what I don't from that decade. Frankly, I'm a little sick of it. It's one of the reasons I'm pulling away from team collecting somewhat and focusing on set collecting. I can focus on two or three sets at a time. But a bunch of Dodgers from 120 different sets from the '90s? I don't even have the time to make want lists for that stuff anymore. Also, why should I be spending the most time on the period that I care about the least? I'd like to be rid of '90s Dodgers sets for good. Most of them don't mean a lot to me. So I was happy to see that the cards from t...