Today's card prompted an unexpected comment from my wife, Cathy, when I showed it to her. You should know that she is the least likely person to ever say anything crude, so it was quite a surprise that she said what she did.
Card Number 567: Upper Deck, 1998; #539
This was a 'Season Highlights' card in Upper Deck's flagship set. The silver cross background may have been meant to be a searchlight or floodlight. Cathy commented:
"It looks like a light is shining out of his butt!"
This card also doubles up as a checklist and satisfyingly, Tony's base card (#500) is one of the cards on the checklist. As ever, looking at the list of names provides a real mix of recognisable names and long-forgotten bit players.
Hopefully this post hasn't lowered the tone of the blog too much!
Total: 567 cards
The design behind Tony reminds me of the design you used to see when a television station would sign off for the night (when they used to do that)
ReplyDeleteThis is actually a pretty cool topic for a blog series. Ask spouses, girlfriends, boyfriends, best friends, children, parents, etc for their opinions/reactions to different cards from our collection.
ReplyDeleteCathy also pointed out the "ice skating" on the Fleer Mystique card
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