I attended a local Ottawa card show last Sunday, and am going to share a selection of my purchases from the show.
This is my fourth Kosar autographed card, and the first one on a sticker.
Topps kind of mailed it in on the back.
Another interesting "hit" that I bought at the show was this card:
One of the local dealers found this card in Toronto, and bought it, correctly guessing that I would want it.
He wondered what sort of material from the rookie premiere day was in this card. He thought it might be part of a glove. I looked at it, and guessed part of a shoe.
Looking for the card on the Trading Card Database, with the serial number it has, it was part of a 2012 Panini Limited Blue Chip Shoes insert set.
Woo hoo! I was right!
Nearly a couple of weeks ago, I commented on a fairly new football card blog, Cardboard Canon, that I enjoyed the Panini Illusion cards that showed modern and older players on the same card. I found one at the show.
It matched up O.J. Howard with a fellow Alabama Tight End, Browns Hall of Fame player, Ozzie Newsome.
Coincidentally, Cardboard Canon is a Buccaneers supporter, so this card would probably fit in his collection too.
I also bought other new cards of two different Browns players in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
As well as a couple of other favored veterans.
Personally, I believe that Clay Matthews should be in the Hall of Fame. This Panini Phoenix parallel is numbered out of 35.
This Panini Prizm parallel of Earnest Byner is numbered out of 49.
And I bought a bunch of cards from last year's rookies.
And I'm hoping that better quarterback play will help Fannin develop better.
Mason Graham had a good rookie season even though he played the final part of the season with a broken rib.
It will also be interesting to see how his play is affected by missing this guy on the line with him:
I'll miss Myles Garrett as a Browns player. However I understand the various reasons given for his trade. It's too bad he won't spend his whole career with the Browns.
Finally, a non-sport card dealer that I buy a lot of stuff from had something interesting in one of his bins.
There were sheets with over a hundred slides in them. When I looked at the side and saw the writing, I realized all of them were from New England Patriots games. Of all of them, this was the only Browns slide.
A lot of the slides were very similar shots to each other. The photographer must have clicked in sequence for consecutive shots, waiting to see which shot turned out the best.
I don't know if the photographer was trying to capture photos for cards, but it was something neat to grab.
Being the only Browns slide, the dealer gave it to me for free. He did say that when he bought them, that he thought there were plenty more that the seller had. He said he'll look to see if they are all Patriots if he gets to see them again.
Now, the lighting for my scanner didn't get to show the action on the slide, so I decided to hold the slide up near my kitchen window and take a photo.
Okay, I really like this action shot!
I'm pretty sure the shadows on the bottom of the field are actually the bottom of the window sill that I was looking out.
Such a neat item to get. I will definitely be adding this into my 1999 Browns binder.
Being a unique item in my collection, I think that I was happier to get this than the Kosar autographed card at the beginning of the post.
What do you think of the slide?
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