In Huddle the final Playoff games will be played this Sunday and we’ll finally know who will face off in the Super Bowl. For many fans their season is now over and in Huddle true fans really sign out for the season at that point if their team is still not in the race. It’s like if most of the audience got up and left the theater as soon as Dak Ralter dies in Empire Strikes Back. Kinda weird.
Many sets are either wrapping up or staggering along. Topps has dropped a number of bundles and even credit packs to try and blow out some of the unsold inserts from the season and there have been exciting pulls of rare cards for those willing to take a shot. Marathons final week is happening right now and Saturday’s Signature drop will be the last Marathon drop of 20 weeks and then we wait, hopefully not too long to see what it was all for. Wave 3 awards were solid so one would hope that wave 4 awards and more importantly, Overall awards are REALLY nice. Gypsy Queen waves 1 and 2 will come out today in the form of Jumbo Patch cards. Trading on this set is far from frenzied as most who were going to complete did so weeks ago. Original continues into now it’s 4th wave of 5 classic cards to collect and despite the small size of the set these are very hard to complete and the award counts have reflected that. The Gold frame sig awards have been 1-2 cc and the Sig awards have been 16-20 cc range. Interest definitely took a jump when folks saw the Award count for the first wave and the following Ben Rothlisberger Award took a nice hop but that wave was followed by another then another leaving most fans too exhausted (in coins if not will) to continue. Trading for them is always a slog as there seems to be one classic player many homers siphon out of the tank for those hoping to complete for award. It’s been rough and I’m sure many are hoping the set is now complete. Topps’ annual arms race has reached its crescendo as the Playoff Boost cards have continued to filter out for those looking for advantage in contests. One would expect Game Only boosts with BIG point multipliers for the Sunday Games then we head into the final push towards the Super Bowl where the multipliers go straight to plaid. Should be a wild weekend with the Packers/Falcons Game expected to be really exciting after Aaron Rodgers’ last minute heroics to take down the Cowboys broke a million hearts. And many are counting out the Steelers who will take on the Patriots on their home field. They probably shouldn’t as nobody saw the outcome of the Packers/Cowboys game. These teams are all the best of the best and one play can change it all. Ask Aaron Rodgers.
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