Jay Buhner 1988 Score Traded 95T XRC

 Basketball:

Allen Iverson 1996-97 Topps Chrome #171

Gary Payton 1990-91 Kayo #12

Sue Bird 2002 Fleer Authentix #101

Steve Largent 1977 Topps #177

Mike Bossy 1978 Topps #115

Ryan Bader 2009 Topps Round 2 #119

Baron Manfred von Richthofen 1933 National Chicle Skybirds #23

Near the end of October I won one of Sports Card Collectors contests for 10 packs of Panini’s NFL Player of the Day. I just received the packs, so time to rip.

The base set is made up of 30 players plus four different parallels, the Rookies set consists of 10 players plus the same four parallels and there are 50 memorabilia cards. There are also autographs but they are only available as grand prizes in shops, a national sweepstake and through Panini’s Twitter contests.

I’ll start with my Seahawks pull of Russell Wilson, who was the POD for the Week 10 2016 win over the Patriots.

For the Cardinals, I pulled David Johnson (POD Week 7 of 2016) as well as the player who replaced him when Johnson went down with an injury earlier this season, Adrian Peterson (Intro to Saints).

The Rookies backs have their highlights from college since they don't have a NFL POD 2016 game.

I would like to thank SCC and Panini for the packs.

All of the prize winner’s envelopes have been sent out with the shipping of JediJeff’s Door #3 prize this morning. I just got the address for the last prize so I will be shipping that off shortly.

The way that this draft will work is after I post the winners and the prizes the winners will be able to select which prize they would like. So, the first winner will select their prize, the second winner will select their prize from the remaining pool, winner three will select their prize from the remaining pools, winner four, five and six will continue the process. 

Now on to the winners:

First pick winner:

The Angels In Order 

Second pick winner:

Captain Canuck

Third pick winner:

Brett Alan

Fourth pick winner:

JediJeff

Fifth pick winner:

Matt from Diamond Jesters

Sixth pick winner:

Richard Nebe Jr.

The remaining prize:

2009-10 Panini National Treasures George Mikan Cyan Printing Plate

The prize winners have been selected and now is time for the draft. I have decided to include a total of 6 prizes, the first 4 I have already posted but I am adding a 2009-10 Panini National Treasures George Mikan Cyan Printing Plate and a “Door #3” prize, which is unknown.

The way that this draft will work is after I post the winners and the prizes the winners will be able to select which prize they would like. So, the first winner will select their prize, the second winner will select their prize from the remaining pool, winner three will select their prize from the remaining pools, winner four, five and six will continue the process. 

Now on to the winners:

First pick winner:

The Angels In Order (Sorry, I accidently called you Angels in the Outfield in the video)

Second pick winner:

Captain Canuck

Third pick winner:

Brett Alan

Fourth pick winner:

JediJeff

Fifth pick winner:

Matt from Diamond Jesters

Sixth pick winner:

Richard Nebe Jr.

The four remaining prizes:

1982 Fleer Cal Ripken Jr. rookie card

2004 Topps All-Time Fan Favorite Monte Irvin

2009-10 Panini National Treasures George Mikan Cyan Printing Plate

Door #3 prize- This prize is unknown but will include at least 2 cards, may be autographs, relics, vintage, rookie cards, non-sports or other. The cards will be collectible (so no base cards, dupes or a dump of junk wax), but other than that you will have to be a gambler to find out. 

 I will reach out to each of the winners to let them know that they have won and we will then begin the draft. Once all winners have made their selection and I have gotten their address I will mail out the card in bubble mailers over the next week,

Thank you all for joining my 2,000-post contest. There are 33 people who joined and I tonight I will be running the list through random.org and I will post the winners tomorrow.

The process will be the top sport on the first randomizer will select what they want from the prize pool, the first person on the second randomizer will select what they want from the remaining prizes and so on until all the prizes have been selected.

My #2000 post contest ends tonight at 11:59 pm PST. If you have not posted that you are interested in taking part of the contest you can go to the original poste <HERE> and say you are interested in the comments section.


EDIT- 5:00 PM PST
We just hit 31 people signing up for the contest so here is another prize. If we get to 40 people signing up I will add another prize.

This David Prowse Darth Vader autograph is now part of the prize pool along with the 3 prizes I originally posted.

It has taken 8 years, 3 months and 12 days but today is my 2,000th post on Pack War.

My first post was on June 6, 2009 and I started with a simple post about some ideas that I had for the blog, I honestly did not even consider the future of the blog. When I started I had been reading a couple of blogs regularly and I liked the way that collectors were interacting with each other and I wanted to be able to share my story too.

I hadn’t even realized I was this close to 2,000 posts until I was writing up a couple of Question Day posts that I save as drafts and looked over and saw I was at 1,991 published posts and I started wondering if I should just post #2,000 and not make a mention about it, just add it at the end of a regular post or should I do something special? I decided to do something, a giveaway. Nothing big but I wanted to make it special.

Here is what you need to do to be part of the giveaway:

1.      Post here by Sunday 9/24/17 at 11:59 pm PST 

That’s it

The prizes:

1982 Fleer Cal Ripken Jr. rookie card

1993 Ted Williams Buck Leonard autograph

2004 Topps All-Time Fan Favorites Monte Irvin autograph

Awarding of the prizes:

The person in the #1 position on the first randomization gets first choice

The person in the #1 position on the second randomization gets the second choice

The person in the #1 position on the third randomization gets the remaining card

Additional:

If it reaches 50 people joining I will add at least 2 additional prizes in which case I will follow the same rules with the awarding of the prizes but with two additional randomizations with the person in the #1 position on each of those randomizations being the winner of a prize.

I close with thanking everyone who has visited Pack War and read my posts. I really do appreciate it.

I joined in on two Big Fun Game recently with Gavin’s being last month. I just got the cards and he included some additional cards in to the package. The big hit was the 2005 Topps Retired JR Richards autograph, Topps did such an amazing job with these Retired Autograph sets. The selection also included two of Gavin’s customs; a Day/Boggs card from Always Sunny In Philadelphia and the second is the Giancarlo Stanton box bottom cut card.

Like Wes, Gavin is a generous person and his customs are just the bomb. In addition to a couple of Mariners cards for my collection he included four custom cards that are very welcome. The first is AJ Lee, and even though she is retired she is still one of the most popular wrestlers with collectors. Her autograph is one of my gray whales but they are still demanding a premium because they are still pretty rare when you compare them to some of the autographs from current popular female wrestlers like Bayley and Sasha Banks.

I was torn which custom to show next but I decided to go with the Simpsons tobacco cards next. The cards are tobacco era sized but the Montgomery Burns card has been aged nicely and has a very original feel to it, I love it. Last year Gavin did a collection of Homer at the Bat cards that I just loved, he actually sent me a glow in the dark Griffey magnet card, which is on display with my Griffey cards, so these two a wonderful addition. If you haven’t been able to tell I enjoy the Simpsons and the Homer at the Bat episode is one of my all-time favorite.

The final custom is this Ken Griffey Jr piece of art, really the best way to describe it. The card is set up like a picture or painting and when you flip it over it looks like the back of a picture frame. It is the details like this that makes a cool custom become a freaking awesome custom.

Thank you, Gavin, I had fun with the game and you really produce some magnificent cards.

I took part in three blogger contests recently with Wes’ World Cup of Trading being one of them. He contacted me in May asking if I could do two sketches for him and when I sent them he let me know I can select some of the cards he had up for trade.

The three cards I selected were

2013 Leaf Metal Draft Tyrann Mathieu

A Mathieu autograph has been one of my gray whales for a while so I was very happy to see this available.

2013 Topps Pro Debut Louie the Lumberking

Louie here is the mascot of the Mariners’ Class A team Clinton LumberKings

2013-14 In The Game Mike Bossy relic

I was born on Long Island and as a kid I remember going to Islander games with my dad and brothers at Nassau Coliseum and Mike Bossy was the man. While this was up for trade on Wes’s blog I didn’t even notice that this is a Vault #1/1. These cards are similar to Topps’ Vault cards, they were kept in storage and re-released in products later. I have some SportKings Vault cards but this is my first Vault #1/1.

Being the generous man that he is, Wes allowed people to pick additional cards when the contest was ending. I asked for the Adam Jones 1^st homerun medallion. Over the years it has hurt seeing the Mariners trade off some young players who ended up being successful elsewhere but Jones is probably one of the more painful recent loses. 

I also asked about the Topps Strata Clear Cut autographs, which Wes included them all. I am considering using these as donor cards in one of my “So you don’t have to” segments.

Knowing I am a Griffey collector he included a nice stack of The Kid. There were 20 Griffey cards that I needed for my collection and that was greatly appreciated.

Last month John from Johnny’s Trading Spot held a Big Fun Game contest and I was slotted #17 out of 21 picks. I ended up stealing a Highland Mint Rick Mirer Mint Card from Oscar of All Trade Bait, All The Time. Up until I had seen the Mirer card selected at the #10 spot I was planning on just picking a number but when it comes to one of my favorite Seahawks QBs I had no choice.

The card is based on Mirer’s 1993 Topps RC #285, but more majestic, and The Highland Mint went all out on the package. The card is enclosed in a plastic clam shell and when opened the COA is folded in a sleeve on one side and the card is nestled in to a one-inch screw down on top of a piece of felt.

John included a collection of Mariners from current back to a 1983 Donruss Bryan Clark and a trading card sized Mariners felt pennant that is now hanging out with my Mariners Moose Funko Pop. The Mariners are sitting at 30-30 after a 5-game win streak.

Currently Hernandez and Iwakuma are on the DL but that doesn’t stop shiny cards from shining. Iwakuma will be going through a simulated game on Sunday and well, Hernandez needs to stop hurting himself while celebrating. 

I am a fan of the physical Bunt cards and inserts like this Cruz Infinite card are the reason why. Cruz is teetering on the DL with tightness to his calf and is missing his second game in a row.

A pair of 2017 Topps Opening Day Jean Segura (Base and Rainbow Foil). Segura has found the perfect spot in Seattle and just signing a contract extension last week. He had a good year with the Diamondbacks last year but he really looks like he may top it this year.

Brett Boone was loved in Seattle and his second tenure he was uncontested leader of the team, including the 2001 116-win team. This is a printed autograph so I still go without a Boonie auto in my Mariners’ collection but I hope to add one before the end of the year.

I end with a 2013 Panini Hometown Heroes Jay Buhner, a card straight from my Bone Want List.