Some parallels

Looking at the statistics for my collection, I have over 200 different cards of three different players. The leader in my collection is Tim Couch (who has a great appearance in this year's Bud Light NFL cans commercial), followed by Kevin Johnson and Braylon Edwards.


I added some new cards to both the Johnson and Edwards collections recently.




Top: 1999 Bowman - Interstate #157
Middle (l-r): 2000 Ultra - Gold Medallion #188G; 2000 Fleer Gamers - Extra #81
Bottom (l-r): 2002 Bowman Chrome - Refractors #86; 2003 Upper Deck Standing O - Die Cuts #77

As with the Chris Spielman Interstate card that I showed a couple of posts ago, I'm only showing the back of the Kevin Johnson one here.


I didn't own any cards from the 2003 Standing O set so I wasn't really sure what this card was when I saw it, but it is pretty neat to have a football shaped die-cut. I own the base cards of the other displayed parallels.

Top (l-r): 2005 Topps Turkey Red - Red #200; 2006 Bowman Chrome - Refractors #219
Middle (l-r): 2006 Bowman - Blue #108 (#/500); 2006 Bowman - Gold #108
Bottom: 2009 Topps Magic - Minis #147

Of these, the only one that I don't have the base card for is the Turkey Red card above.


I like mini cards, but just put them in regular nine-pocket pages beside their base cards in my collection.


The following are also minis, not that you can tell without a regular card beside them for perspective.

L-R: 2009 Topps Magic - Minis #250; #248; #219

Surprisingly, it appears that I still need Jim Brown's base card for this set. Now that I know to look for it, I'm sure I'll get it sometime soon.

Top (l-r): 2010 Topps Magic - Minis #139; #153
Bottom (l-r): 2010 Topps Magic - Minis #178; #248

I own the base cards for these four cards, but am still looking for one base card (Colt McCoy) and two minis (McCoy and Mohammed Massaquoi) from this set.

Top: 2012 Topps Magic - Minis #222
Bottom (l-r): 2013 Topps Magic - Minis #185; 2013 Topps Magic - Minis Black #317

I'm slowly working on my 2012 Magic minis. I have all the base cards, but this is only the 4th of the 9 cards that I own the mini for.


And with the 2013 minis, you get to see a parallel of a parallel. Woo hoo! I own the base cards for both of these players but don't yet own the regular mini of Joe Thomas. (And I sometimes wonder why I can't remember exactly what I own in my collection.)


Moving away from minis, here are a few more recent parallels that I picked up.

Top (l-r): 2005 Bazooka - Blue #44; #82
Bottom (l-r): 2005 Bazooka - Blue #89; #102

Top: 2005 Bazooka - Blue #160
Bottom (l-r): 2005 Bazooka - Gold #89; #102

Yeah, I probably should have grouped the Droughns and Suggs blue and gold cards together. It only really hit me when I looked at the screen but I'm too lazy to scan them again.


I still need the Winslow base card from this Bazooka set.


Finally, one last card that is the first of its parallel that I own.

2005 Bowman - 1st Edition #156

Just a small little foil 1st edition logo on the front. I wonder if I've missed any of those before by not looking close enough. I keep saying that I need to sit down with my doubles and actually look to see if I've missed any parallels in them, but I need to finish organizing my collection first - something that I didn't get done this summer like I hoped to.