One More Pack

Today the July Loot Locker came in the mail.  I somehow was able to let it sit for about 4 hours before I opened it up.

Four packs
2015 Panini Contenders (x2)
2015 Topps Platinum
2016 Panini Classics

2015 Panini Contenders
2015 Panini Contenders #188 – Championship Ticket – Brandon Scherff

2015 Panini Contenders #MVP10 – MVP Contenders – Cam Newton

2015 Topps Platinum
Patrick Peterson #12 (Veteran Base)
Jimmy Graham #58 (Veteran Base)
Clay Matthews #61 (Veteran Base)
Andrus Peat #124 (Rookie Base)
Andrew Luck #40 (Gold)

The four base cards added to my duplicates (with no Bills) and the Gold Andrew Luck was not one that I need to complete that set.

2015 Panini Classics

This is my first up close look at the “New” Classics from Panini.  Couple of interesting cards in there and they have that old school feel of cardboard.  The one thing I really like about set is that there is a Jim Kelly card (and short print) in the checklist.  I might be picking up a few more packs of this in the future.

Here’s a close-up look at the Tim Brown Legends

Thanks Loot Locker, can’t wait to open another one!

It’s been a few days since I posted. I was visiting family and wanted to spend some time with them instead of sitting at the laptop or opening up a few more packs of cards. But once I got back I couldn’t wait to crack open a few packs. I had four packs of 2014 Panini Rookies and Stars free from a purchase at Dave and Adam’s Card World a while back. Here’s some of the highlights.

Some Stars… I wasn’t sure what to expect. But I really liked the look of the cards, until I turned them over. Great front design, not so great back design.  It’s the same photo and it looks like a lot of other Panini sets.

And some of the rookies, no big pull, but I always like to see a Johnny Football.

Now each pack comes with an insert. As with most Panini sets there are about 20 different insert sets.
Here is a nice Champ Bailey Super Bowl Card, DeMarco Murray Pro Bowl, and a Calvin Pryor Draft Class.

My Scanning was a little off today, sorry about that.

And the final insert was a little bit more than an insert. A really good auto numbered 10/10 from Ed Reynolds, a promising young safety for the Eagles.

Thanks for reading, now go open another pack.

I did it again.  I thought I’d take another crack at a football repack.  I’ve seen some people have some pretty good luck online but I’m still skeptical.  It was a decent price and came with 4 packs of cards plus one autograph card and one jersey card.

Here’s what I pulled.

Four Packs
2016 Leaf Draft
2015 Leaf Draft
2014 Rookies and Stars
2013 Topps Football

2016 Leaf Draft – 5 Cards
Deforest Buckner
Tra Carson
Leonard Floyd
Robert Nkemdiche
Laquon Treadwell (Gold)
  

2015 Leaf Draft – 5 Cards
Javorius Allen
Todd Gurley
Josh Harper
Matt Jones
Stefon Diggs (Gold)
   

Topps Football and the Rookies and Stars
Nothing special to report here, but snagged a couple of Buffalo cards.

Robert Woods Topps Rookie

Cyril Richardson R&S Rookie

CJ Spiller R&S

My autographed card was the following…

2011 Playoff Contenders #178 Stanley Havili

Come on a fullback, but my memorabilia card got quite a bit better.

2006 Donruss Gridiron Gear Rookie Gridiron Gems Jumbo Prime – DeAngelo Williams #205
(Numbered 127 of 150)

Again nothing huge but I really like the DeAngelo Williams card and I snagged a couple of nice Buffalo cards.  I’ll try not to pick up anymore re-packs and go back to the hobby and retail packs.

It’s been a few days since I got this month’s edition of the Loot Locker.  No Gurley Rookie Numbered to 99 this time, but not a bad haul.  Here’s what was in the box!

Four packs
2015 Panini Contenders (x2)
2015 Topps Platinum
2015 Topps Finest

2015 Panini Contenders
2015 Panini Contenders #132 – Rookie Ticket – Danielle Hunter (Base)

2015 Topps Platinum
Matt Forte #19 (Veteran Base)
Mark Ingram #37 (Veteran Base)
Maxx Williams #140 (Rookie Base)
Devin Smith #108 (Rookie X-Fractor)
Matthew Stafford #36 (Gold)
 

The three base cards added to my duplicates (with no Bills) and I already had one of the Devin Smith X-Fractors, but the Stafford Gold card got me closer to completing the Platinum Gold Set. (23 more to go)

2015 Topps Finest
Garrett Grayson (RC) #86
Jalen Strong (RC) #92
Tom Brady #140
Jamal Charles #143
  

2015 Topps Finest QB Cuts Red Refractor #QBC-BP (Numbered 4/50)

Not a bad card at all.

Thanks Loot Locker, until next month.

After having so much fun with the $7.99 Fairfield re-pack, I decided to try this $19.99 repack.

20 packs plus one hit
2 – 2014 Retail Panini Contenders
4 – 2014 Retail Score
2 – 2013 Retail Hit High Series
4 – 2012 Upper Deck University of Alabama
2 – 1990 Fleer
2 – 2013 Retail Panini Prizm
3 – 2013 Retail Panini Prestige
1 – 2015 Topps Retail Jumbo Pack

One Hit was not so great….  I’ve heard some people get lucky and grab some nice stuff here, but I was pretty disappointed.
SPx Super Scripts 2008 – #SSS50 Xavier Adibi

4 packs of 2014 Score led to the following inserts

2 packs of Contender (One Insert and one Buffalo Bill, before he was in Buffalo)

2 packs of Retail Hit (High Series). Next Level Eddie Lacy and Next Level Jordan Rodgers (Nice shirtless photo, hahahaha!)

1990 Fleer (taking me back to being a kid again).  Ronnie Lott All-Pro Insert and one Buffalo Bill (Art Still, who I have a signed card from when I was in Middle School)

The 2 Prizm packs led me to a couple of nice Bills.  A base rookie of Robert Woods and an HRK of EJ Manual (I know, I know)

The Alabama Upper Deck Cards were kind of cool to see, nothing special, here are couple of examples of cards from the set.  Julio Jones and Dwight Stephenson.

The Topps pack let to a couple of nice pulls.  A Todd Gurley base rookie, a Javorius Allen SP rookie Card, and a Sammie Coates 60^th Anniversary insert.

And here are a couple of inserts in the Prestige packs.  Including another Buffalo player.

Kind of nice to pull from different packs to see if there is anything you really want to collect but not as fun (or cheap) as the smaller repack box.  And the guaranteed hit was of a player who is out of the NFL.  Probably not worth the 20 bucks other than to have some fun and maybe complete a set you are working on.  I think I’m going back to Hobby and Retail packs instead of the Re-Pack.  At least for a while…