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I have a little over 2,000 football cards. Most of them are organized by team (it's fun to go back and look at Los Angeles Raiders and Rams, Houston Oilers), back from when I collected everyone. After a while I just collected Bills cards, and have something like 70 Jim Kelly cards, many of them signed. (I went to the Bills training camp every year when I was a kid and they training camp-ed in my grandparents' home town.) Thurman Thomas, Andre Reed, Bruce Smith, Steve Tasker, Daryl Talley, Phil Hansen, Cornelius Bennet...those were the days. Many of those cards signed as well. Probably 500-700 Bills cards in all.
I'm all nostalgic now.
When he was with the Colts, even though he was then in the Bills' division, I was a huge Marshall Faulk fan, I'm pretty sure for no other reason than I happened to have many of his cards. So I kept collecting them, and now I have tons of Marshall Faulk Colts-era cards. Should have sold them in 2000 when they would have been worth more. Oh well. Resale is not why I started collecting.
I hate to ramble, but I remember when Rick Mirer was drafted he was a big shot. I got one of his rookie cards from Ultra Deck or something, a good card, priced at $14. I was so thrilled, but accidentally set a stool on it and it was bent horribly. I remember thinking "Damn, that's worth $14 now, it's going to be worth tons more in 10 years and I messed it up!" Kinda glad things worked out the way they did...
Alright I'm done. Sorry.
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