Night Owl Cards

I have a bunch of blog ideas bouncing around in my head, but no time to flesh them out or even write about them this week. While I love the Olympics, the event drains the life out of me at work. The sports section goes up by two pages to accommodate the extra Olympic coverage, and unfortunately, none of the other many sports going on (except the NHL) stop playing. So, it's the Olympics on top of everything else and guess who gets to keep track of it all. Little ol' Night Owl.                                                                                      AP ...

What better way to recognize tonight's start of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver than with the first O-Pee-Chee night card to appear on this blog! This card looks exactly like the 1986 Topps Don Sutton card, except for the O-Pee-Chee designation in the top right corner of the photo. The card stock is lighter on the back, too, but that's as detailed as I'm going to get because there's a blog dedicated to OPC dissection already. I look forward to the Olympics every two years, and am old enough to have watched when it was every four years (the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles was probably my viewing high point). I've heard others say they prefer the Summer Olympics to the Winter, but I'm the opposite. I like the Winter Games. Part of it is because I live in a winter climate, and I'm not far from Lake Placid. I have interviewed several Winter Olympians. But also, the Winter Games are more interesting to me. They have unusual sports that I enjoy deciph...