Mystery Cuts have all shipped
Got this in from Upper Deck today that they have completely shipped all the Mystery Cuts out this week. This set has been a winner for Upper Deck every year and this year looks to continue that trent.
Donruss to Become Official Sponsor of NFL Experience
Arlington, TX – Officials at Donruss announced today they have reached an agreement with the NFL to become the “Official Trading Card Sponsor of the NFL Experience” for Super Bowl XLIII, which will be played in Tampa Bay, Florida. Through the sponsorship agreement, Donruss’s logo will be featured throughout the NFL Experience, as well as over the official autograph pavilion. The NFL Experience is pro football’s interactive fan festival offering participatory games, kids’ football clinics and more.
“We are excited to have Donruss on board as a title sponsor at this year’s Trading Card Show at NFL Experience,” said NFL Director of Consumer Products Rich Seidlitz. “This is great exposure for the category and a creative way for Donruss to get its brand out in front of millions of NFL football fans.”
The agreement also allows Donruss access to officially licensed Super Bowl XLIII memorabilia, including game-used equipment, such as footballs and end zone pylons, and Super Bowl XLII ticket stubs. All of these items will be uniquely incorporated into future trading card programs.
“Our goal at Donruss has been to market around the NFL’s marquee events, so being a title sponsor at an NFL signature event, the NFL Experience, takes our marketing efforts to another level,” said Donruss Vice President of Sales & Marketing Mike Anderson. “By adding in sponsorships at the Pro Bowl and NFL Draft, we hope to expose an entirely new audience to the Donruss brand.”
Anderson is referring to the fact that the agreement also includes a sponsorship at this year’s Pro Bowl and the exclusive designation as the “Official Trading Card of the 2009 NFL Draft.” Specific details on Donruss’ plans for these events will be released in the coming weeks, but the agreement will grant Donruss access to additional game-used memorabilia and unique photo opportunities at both events.
“We felt the memorabilia from these events would be a great way to enhance our programs throughout 2009,” adds Anderson. “With the excitement about the Pro Bowl moving to South Florida next year and the growing popularity of NFL Draft day, we’re excited at the prospects of gaining exposure for Donruss and our products during these NFL events.”
Bowman Chrome Draft is LIVE!!!
2008 Bowman Chrome Draft Picks and Prospects is LIVE and already Freedom Card Board Member Elemin8 has pulled one of the best cards you could get out of the product. The card that we exclusively revealed that would be in the set’s Gold Refractor has been released.
If you listened to our first podcasts, we had Clay Luraschi from Topps on and he revealed that Buster Posey would be in Bowman Chrome Draft Picks and Prospects. So it was pretty cool to see the first huge pull out of the product was live. The card is already on EBay and awaiting a Wossa offer.
We should be seeing a lot more coming out of this product in the upcoming weeks. This is many prospectors set of the year, but it should be interesting to see how it does with Razor snagging so many of the top players from this years draft. I personally think both Topps and Razor will do well with their products. Everything Topps did to juice up BCDP by listening to the fans, I think, should definitely pay off with two of the strongest products we have seen in a long time.
New Episode Posted – Collector Revolution.com
We were able to sit down and record with Jeff and Jonathan from CollectorRevolution.com this weekend for the latest episode of The Card Podcast.
We tried to cover everything from their layout of their site to pricing structure that they will be using. I have listed some of my extra stuff on there. My username on there is TheCardPodcast so give the stuff a look.
One of the featured listings on the page is my Justin Smoak 1 of 1 patch from 2007 USA Baseball. Some may wonder why this is Episode Number 12 when the last one was Number 10. Well we decided, unlike the Patriots thus far, to retire number 11. (Or the whole numbering thing was off because of the special episode with Brian on the Wieters 1/1, but we’re going with the tribute to Drew. )
CollectorRevolution.com Unleashed!
A new site was unveiled earlier today. CollectorRevolution.com is a great alternative to Ebay for card collectors to buy and sell their extras.
We are setting up having the team behind this new site on the podcast this weekend. I have listed a few cards under the user name TheCardPodcast. You can view my stuff so far here. We will be covering more on this site in the coming weeks, but definitely looks like a good site to check out.
Lincecum Sterling Red surfaces
Time for Wossa to make a bid. The Bowman Sterling 1/1 Red Ref of Tim Lincecum has been listed on ebay via a reasonable BIN of 7,999.99. How high will it go? Well we know he already has the Bowman Chrome Superfractor of it, will this card pair up with that?
Click Here for the Ebay listing