5 DAYS AWAY

 

      5 days from now I will be sitting in front of my television to watch THE GAME that I have waited for since last year after the Flag posting in the middle of the field. FOX Sports advertised it correctly this year, The National Champions are seeking revenge against the #15 little girls of the city known as Fanny Farbor,Muchigan. Sure they have had the upper hand the last 4 years but this year.....its payback for all the things that happened. 

                                                              Coach Day is ready for this 

         Again all year we have heard the critics say they lost a bunch of key players to the draft in April so they won't be a contender for the playoffs they have an inexperienced quarterback (Last checked he was at 80.1% Completion rate leading all FBS teams), No true running back (Bo Jackson a true Freshman has 835 yards rushing yards I really hope he can get 165+ yards rushing on Saturday) they said we were to have a 7-4 season.

Regular Season
DATE	OPPONENT	RESULT	W-L (CONF)	HI PASS	HI RUSH	HI REC
Sat, 8/30	vs1 TEX	W14-7	1-0 (0-0)	Sayin 126	Donaldson 67	Tate 49
Sat, 9/6	vsGRAM	W70-0	2-0 (0-0)	Sayin 306	Jackson 108	Smith 119
Sat, 9/13	vsOHIO	W37-9	3-0 (0-0)	Sayin 347	Jackson 109	Smith 153
Sat, 9/27	@WASH	W24-6	4-0 (1-0)	Sayin 208	Jackson 80	Smith 81
Sat, 10/4	vsMINN	W42-3	5-0 (2-0)	Sayin 326	Jackson 63	Tate 183
Sat, 10/11	@17 ILL	W34-16	6-0 (3-0)	Sayin 166	Jackson 47	Smith 42
Sat, 10/18	@WIS	W34-0	7-0 (4-0)	Sayin 393	West 55	Tate 111
Sat, 11/1	vsPSU	W38-14	8-0 (5-0)	Sayin 316	Jackson 105	Tate 124
Sat, 11/8	@PUR	W34-10	9-0 (6-0)	Sayin 303	Jackson 75	Smith 137
Sat, 11/15	vsUCLA	W48-10	10-0 (7-0)	Sayin 184	Jackson 112	Graham 40
Sat, 11/22	vsRUTG	W42-9	11-0 (8-0)	Sayin 157

BEATING THE VULTURES

 

                I don't know about most of you but I am sure that we all in our places where we live have experienced this dilemma whenever were shopping at any retail store that should carry sports cards. Empty shelves whenever a new product is released & is available in the retail form & we don't want to make the trek to our local hobby shop to pick up the hobby version of the exact same thing or wait for our pickings from a case breaker & we want to crack open something to crave our crave on the new product. I blame the Vultures that crave the same thing we want.

Gotta get me something new to crack open cause I am not a serious collector I am a hungry for the $$$$ cards & latest hot Rookies

              They know the schedules of the distributions of the cards & sit waiting for them to finish filling up the shelves of the new product or they even just wait for them to open the sealed boxes & take what they feel is the right amount of the new product leaving nothing behind for the next person cause they believe they're entitled to it first & they think of the old saying early bird gets the worm or they want it to open right away to post it on YouTube showing ya what your missing out on as well get excited when they pull that rare of a card that some of you player collectors wish you were so lucky to own leaving you I hope they sell it on eBay right away & maybe you can get it before someone else does. Then the lowest part of the collecting spectrum the Set builders which yours truly is a member of are wondering why cant I locate that last card to complete my set cause someone had to take all the boxes from the store & get that hot product sent off to be graded ASAP!!!!! 

                    Now last year I was at a Walmart looking for some individual packs of a product that I thought might not Garner any attention mind you it was 3rd Walmart I stopped at cause the other 2 didn't have anything on the shelves of the product & well my driver didn't want to go to anymore after this stop it was either get something here or wait until ya get back home to find the missing ones. After finding the card section there was the vendor stocking the shelves of the latest newest hottest product that everyone was clamouring over but not me no one else was around the vendor had it roped off like it was a crime scene waiting for the SCCI (Sports Card Collectors Investigating) team to do the investigation on it as I approached the scene the guy said sir I am asking you give me 20 more minutes I am not done with setting the new product but please wait I told him that I was on borrowed time that if I could just look beyond the rope I won't take anything until he was completed. He said he would never understand in hopes to get his job done that someone always has to get something just as he places it on the shelf or out of his distribution box but since he saw there was only me he let me glance & I didn't touch anything until he said alright go at it but then saw me go towards a product that was reduced in price & said if that's all I was looking for then I could clean them up cause he was going to replace them regardless with the new product that I had no part of so said give him a minute still & reached into another box that he didn't pull out reason it was more of the product I was going for & said tell ya what instead of paying $6 for them let the clerk call me & Ill reduce the price by another $2 didn't have to tell me twice so I took them all cause he really didn't want to restock the shelf with the new price & sure enough I took them up to the register to told the clerk to notify them & he stopped stocking the shelf told the clerk that I was good for getting them all for $4 a piece so I bought them all little did he know that I had 20 of them but clerk rang them as $4 for all 20 of them not as individually like he said it should be so I walked out got back in my friends car as we headed back to crack them open. As of this writing I still need 11 more inserts to complete the set from my site hopefully someday I am able to find those last 11 cards. 

Until then I am reminded of what Rogers Hornsby once saying about signing Autographs for little kids "Any Ballplayer who doesn't sign for little kids ain't an American, He's a Communist."

COOPERS FOUND WHILE IN THE POOPER!!!

 

           Yesterday I didn't have my school job so I got my haircut & went to lunch w/my mother since I didn't have to go to Dollar General until 4:30. While at lunch I received a text from a friend who was wondering if I was going to be home any time soon I said before 4 I should be he said he had my `25/`26 Topps Basketball set done along with a surprise blaster. Well I came home he stops in with the set along with a blaster box of the Basketball for me to crack open for the Inserts that I might want other than the `80/`81 45th Anniversary set to go with the set he made I ask how he do on finding any Cooper Flagg cards other than his base card he said he didn't luck out he was happy to get 3 Regular Flagg cards for the 3 sets he was making mine,his, as well an extra to sell.

I think I did pretty well with the blaster.

Well after saying bye to him I had another call to the office. I took my blaster in with me for something other than making usual noises while in there. 1st pack I opened from the blaster yielded me the 8 bit insert of Cooper I thought to myself that's about a $8 to $10 I saved if I were to add them to my set the 2nd pack I got the `80/`81 insert of Cooper not bad 2 packs 2 Coopers while in the Pooper. As for the other 5 packs not much hoopla so I told my friend about it he was like surprised on my pulls but I mentioned what other stuff I got he said I did well maybe next time I should choose the box that he should open. Anyways I thought I share my excitement during the week of working 37.75 hours this week at Dollar General hopefully I can get Saturday off to go to a show in Grand Rapids if I do I'll be sure to post it until then I'm reminded of what Rogers Hornsby once saying to signing Autographs for kids "Any Ballplayer who doesn't sign for little kids ain't an American, He's a Communist."