Football Sunday: Big Ben Signature Moves

Today is the game!!!
The Steelers must Win!
The Jets must lose!!!!

Big Ben might be one of the most underrated quarterbacks of this generation.  Many people just don't give him enough credit for getting the Steelers to 3 Super Bowls (and winning 2).  He has put up unbelievable numbers the past few seasons. 

In the past few years, the Steelers have been wearing these "Bumblebee" or "Prison" uniforms as part of their throwback alternate jersey each year.  They only wore them once this year and in that game, Big Ben got injured.

One of my goals this year will be to add an autograph of the Killer Bees (Big Ben, Bell, Brown, Bryant) wearing these uniforms.  Ben is always an expensive auto to chase because he doesn't sign nearly as often as the other Black n Yellow team mates.  For those of you that don't know about Signature Moves from Immaculate, go check it out.  There are some incredible cards to be had.  I'd love to add an Aaron Rodgers discount double check championship belt to the PC even though I'm not a Packers fan.

NFL Draft Day is Upon Us!!!!

The Pittsburgh Steelers are on the clock later tonight when they (pending any trades) select 22nd overall.  It's a great thing to select later in the draft because that means that your team had an excellent season the previous year.  However, it also means that the team will have a smaller chance of getting impact talent.

Earlier in the year, I grabbed this ticket stub of Big Ben from his draft day.  It cost me $6, which is a little more than I was hoping to pay for a card not serially numbered.

I like the quote on the back though.

What are your team's biggest needs from the draft this year? Leave a comment below.

Super Bowl Sunday: 6 Time Super Bowl Champs DUAL AUTO!!!

One of my 2015 Collecting Goals was to add a pair of Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Famers to my collection.  With this card, I am now half way there.  When I was looking to upgrade my Steelers collection, I knew that I wanted to go Quality over Quantity.  Getting a dual autograph of the two quarterbacks who have brought the Steelers 6 Super Bowl Championships seemed like a no brainer.

Hailing from 2005 Donruss Elite, this Passing the Torch dual auto numbered 25/50 features 4 time Super Bowl Champion Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw on the front

and

2 time Super Bowl champion (and potential future Hall of Famer) Ben Roethlisberger on the back.

With the Patriots and Seahawks playing today, it is a guarantee that one of them will tie the number of Super Bowl rings with someone on this card.  Could it be Tom Brady as he attempts to get the elusive number 4 tying him with Bradshaw and Montana for most all-time or will it be the young Russell Wilson tying Ben Roethlisberger and 10 others in the list of 2x Super Bowl champions?

Personally I'm pulling for the Seahawks because quite frankly, I hate Tom Brady and the Patriots.

GO HAWKS!!!!

Bobble Bobble Bobble! I made a trade with Dodgerbobble

I received my part of a trade package with Josh from dodgerbobble.com.
The agreement was for a Jose Tabata Gold Futures 2012 insert and a Frank Thomas Bowman Heritage Jersey relic.  Josh didn't stop there though as he added several other nice surprises that I didn't previously have.

This is the agreed upon Frank Thomas jersey card that I received in exchange for the Kershaw jersey I had pulled last year.  The Big Hurt was one of my favorites growing up and I still remember that video game he put out for the old Sega system.  That game was the shit back in the day.

Here's the "vintage" portion of the lot he sent me featuring all past Pirates players.  I actually didn't have any of these except the Wagner Lineage, which I have given to my girlfriend (also a Pirates fan).  It's nice seeing baseball players without their caps on all the time and I'm very happy to add the Stargell 206 card to my collection.  The Van Slyke was needed for my Van Slyke PC so that was a very nice surprise too.  I don't think I've mentioned it here before, but I just recently bought a Jay Bell game used bat on ebay for about $20 so it was nice to get that Bell card just a few days after the bat arrived.

 Dodgerbobble also included 6 Steelers and 3 Penguins.  Both teams are always welcomed in a trade if you're short on Pirates.  I am slowly trying to build up Steelers and Penguins collections and cards of HOFer Mario Lemieux are always welcome.

 Here's some 2012 and 2010 Pirates cards.  The Tabata Gold Futures was part of the deal.  Everything else was a bonus.

Thanks so much for the trade Josh.  I'm looking forward to our next trade.

Who needs the Super Bowl, when you got football cards

I could honestly care less who wins this game! Tom Brady is my least favorite QB in football and the NY Giants are the most over rated team in football year after year.  Not to mention I work with an annoying fan of both teams and I want them both to be miserable.  This is a lose lose game for me.  LOL! 

In honor of Super Bowl, I'm going to highlight a nice autograph/4 jersey relic of one of my favorite players on the Steelers.  Emmanuel Sanders may not get the recognition of Hines Ward or have the break away speed of Mike Wallace, but he is a fun player to watch.  He's also one of the funniest personalities on the Steelers offense.

And since we're talking about the Postseason let down that this Super Bowl is for me, here's a card highlighting Big Ben as a Post Season Performers.  It's a nice design by Fleer Ultra from 2006

I really wish the Steelers didn't get Tebowed this year.  The playoffs would have been so much better.

How many more weeks until opening day in baseball?  I can't wait.

Trade post with Ryan's Memorabilia Blog

Mike at Ryan's Memorabilia Blog had seen the Jim Palmer/Brian Matusz dual auto I had up for trade and sent me a plethora of Pirates & Steelers cards in exchange.  He saw that I was searching for more Ryan Doumit cards to add to my collection and sent me 2 Autos, a 2011 Topps Silk Collection (48/5), 2011 Diamond Anniversary, and 2 Bowman numbered parallels.  As an added bonus he also included a Willie Stargell Triple Threads, and a very cool Dave Parker/Willie Stargell bat rack card.  I really like that Fleer Bat Rack card.  I had never seen that before and am very glad to add the card to my collection.

He also included 8 Steelers cards including 2 Roethlisberger, 2 Hines Wards, and a Maurkice Pouncey rookie.  Sweet additions to the treasure room.