Donruss Football 50 Card Box

Nope,no Ezekial or Dak yet :(  In fact,these 50 card boxes are light on rookies and heavy on inserts .I did manage to pull a Rookie Phenom Jersey card but nobody special.

I really love this Marino!So true to the 87 Donruss cards of way back,they even botched the centering!Jokes aside ,this really Is a great card.Probably my favorite out of the box.

Marisa Miller Is a Victoria's Secret model/actress/fan of the game (apparently). I'm not a huge fan of non athletes adorning sports related cardboard but I kind of like these cards.They have gold foil border that looks better In hand than in this pic. 

Kevin Hogan got a little playing time a few weeks back for the ailing Cleveland Browns and led the team   In rushing with 104 yards.That's pretty much the highlight of his 2016 season.He projects to be a great back up with starter potential down the road.  

I think there are 200 Rated Rookies In this set so my chances of pulling ones I want will be slim with these 50 card boxes.They yield only two Rated Rookies  and a couple of base rookies ,that's It.The 16 card packs have three Rated Rookies  each plus some base Rookies.I'm sticking to those. 

On The Hunt For Dak & Ezekial

I'm still trying to pull 2016 Rated Rookie cards of  Dak Prescott and Ezekial Elliott.I don't have a disposable income that would allow me to achieve this with a simple box break.I go the route I went as a kid  ,buying packs here and there.To me the reward is even bigger because of the odds. Ebay will be my last resort. The other day while out picking up some pet supplies for our new German Shepherd pup  ,I stumbled across the last two packs of 2016 Donruss and one straggling 52 card pack of Score football.No Dak or Ezekial,but a nice sneak peak at Score and some ok Donruss 2016 cards.

I haven't picked up a pack of Score anything since  1989 ,when It was only couple years old.And that was baseball. Their NFL cards have been out for a while now but this Is my first pack.They're decent looking cards  that get the limited foil treatment,but limited ca be a good thing.In this case It's just a couple of subtle lines above and underneath the players name,team and position.  

Score wouldn't be Score without the player photo on the backside ,even If It's the same as the pic on the front.  

Dang!I thought Karlos Williams would play a part In the Bills future running game,maybe even become their primary back.He's  been released by the Bills picked up by the Raiders and Is now serving a suspension.  

The lil meanie Suh  :(

RC's feature players In their college get ups.

A couple of nice inserts. 

This time around the Donruss packs yielded a little less than the first three I picked up a while back.I really dig the Bo Jackson,though.Such a nice card.Love the grey and black.  

Singles Only

I recently got these two Thor cards  In the mail.That's only the third Bunt card to make It into my collection since their release. I've slept on them big time.

I won't bash Panini for their chrome product .In fact I appreciate the effort.They may have swung and missed but at least they're swinging.

Below are the rest of my Syndergaards. With Familia struggling a bit later In the season,I always wondered what a Syndergaard ninth would look like.

Singles Only

Here are my latest pick ups.A couple of Conforto's and a Jacob DeGrom,all from the 2016 Donruss release.I don't mind the Donruss Panini product.In fact I like It.Their inserts are fun ,baseball player related and won't feature Bud Seligs pet hamster  or some old lady throwing  a 2 mile per hour first pitch a la Topps flagship.It's heart warming and all but I think there's a place for cards like that,and that place Isn't In my  collection.I'll be going over some more Panini Donruss 2016  once I get the must haves from the set ( mostly Mets and some pc guys)out of the way. 

I'm glad Panini decided to stay with the same Rated Rookie logo and not try and switch up the font on It.Same for The Rookies logo.I love that old school touch on cards of new school players! I'm still not 100% sold on Conforto but I know the kid's got talent.I can't wait to see the kind of numbers he puts up given a whole year to show what he can do.He kind of gives off the same vibes Jefferies did when he first came into the league and onto the Mets In '88 -' 89. 

These homage to '82 Donruss inserts aren't horrible but could have been perfect had they shrunken the Donruss logo and '16 on the right hand corner.I love this card mostly because It shows DeGrom batting. A combined 23 -14 over his first two Major League seasons ,DeGrom looks to improve on that In 2016.

1975 TCMA Gehrig /DiMaggio Card Plus Panini Oddities

This TCMA Yankees World Champions card was given to me by a friend a while back.I don't know much about them ,but from what I've researched ,there were sets of these produced  starting as early as 1972. They're pretty odd actually and are about the size of your standard postcards.Maybe someone out there with a couple years on me remembers them,cuz I sure don't. Still a pretty cool piece to own.

These next couple of pics are of some Panini stickers that were given to my mom by our neighbor who shortly after ,passed away.They seem to be from the 60's era but I'm not so sure about It.Any help In identifying them would be mucho appreciated!