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2010 Topps Chrome Football Break and Give Away.

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When the news came out that Topps wouldn’t be allowed to make football cards in 2010 the one product that customers said they would really miss is Topps Chrome Football.  Thankfully that was just a bad dream, and we have a NFL product line for 2011 that looks to be the most aggressive in the history of the company.  Products like Prime, Supreme, Tribute, Unrivaled, and the ultra high end 5 Star Football show increased dedication to the football line.  This is indeed the year for new football brands.

Although a lot of the new stuff looks great, Topps Chrome is your life long faith full friend.  At least in the card world, your friend delivers reliability and simplicity. Just like it has been for years a box gives you a chrome autograph, and some shiny goodness in the form of refractors.  Changes this year include the absorption of the Bowman Chrome Football line into this product.  Each box will give you about 2 bowman chrome rookie cards and there are refractors of this line that are numbered to 99 copies.  There are also chrome copies of some of your favorite Topps rookie cards over the years.  The insert set comes about 4 per box, and features some of the best players in the game like Ray Lewis, Peyton Manning, Adrian Peterson, and Randy Moss.

Our box had a refractor autograph of Tennessee Titan Damien Williams, as well as a blue refractor of Dez Bryant.  It also contained veteran refractor cards of Matt Ryan, Reggie Bush, and Matt Shaub.  The box was clean, with no sign of production flaws that were seen in Topps Baseball.  There were no roller marks on the base cards, centering was crisp on pretty much everything.  Well done Topps, now let’s see how you do with some high end.

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2009 Topps Mayo Football Review

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To say that Allen and Ginter has been a hit in the baseball world has been an understatement. It appeals to a wide variety of collectors, in fact, pretty much everyone but prospectors. In releasing Topps Mayo, Topps has tried to replicate a similar sort of product to Allen and Ginter. There are not only football cards but also a plethora of other cards, such as, US Governors, Worlds Fair Attractions and Celebrated Citizens.

As far as inserts go, there is most certainly a chance for big hits. Included in the product are rip cards, cut signatures, red ink autos #’d /10, printing plates, cloth cards #’d to 5, cabinet autos #’d to 3 and much more. On average, one should expect one autograph per box and one relic per box. We pulled a Gartrell Johnson auto (drafted by the Chargers but no longer with them), a Maurice Jones Drew relic and a Tony Romo printing plate. The Romo printing plate helped offset the dissapointment of the Gartrell Johnson auto.

The autographs look fine, as you might expect, they are stickers. What I think really pops are the GU cards, our Jones-Drew looks nice and some of the more rare ones such as a Buffalo Bill Cody Brick and a Ted Kennedy Jersey look just fantastic. Although we didn’t pull one, the silk cards also look very snazzy. Topps is going to be hard pressed to replicate what it did with A&G in baseball. However, in our estimation, what they’ve done with Mayo in football is a good start. The main thing we would do to improve it is beef up the auto checklist.