Night Owl Cards

Not a lot of cards have come to the house the last couple of weeks. It's that end-of-the-year busy time, and money is devoted to various holiday expenses instead of cards. As mentioned before, I don't get involved with the Black Friday hobby deals, because spending money on myself at this time is not recommended if I know what's good for me. I have just two cards on my desk that I have received that are waiting to be shown. Each arrived as a one-card package. Each has a tale to tell. The first is a jersey card of Jim Kelly sent to me by Matt of Bob Walk The Plank . It is my first jersey card of Kelly, and probably only my second or third jersey card of an NFL player ever. My NFL collecting is very limited. But if you're going to throw a jersey at me, make it of the quarterback when I covered the Bills back in the late 1980s. This card is from 2006 Donruss Elite. The back assures that this swatch was taken from an actual jersey worn by Jim Kelly in an offic...

Here is a list of the Top 100 songs of 1982. It pains me to say this, because I was in high school at this time, but 1982 was not a good year for popular music. There were some decent groups back then but either they didn't release their best work that year or it was under the radar and radio didn't play it. And then there are songs that no one should ever, ever, ever, ever to infinity hear again. Horrible things like "Eye Of The Tiger," "Leader Of The Band," "Key Largo," "Abracadabra" -- I could go on and on. (Most of these you will hear played periodically even today, but there is one song that people across the earth apparently made a pact to never play again. It's called "I've Never Been To Me," by Charlene. DON'T LOOK IT UP! You will curse me for ever mentioning the song title. DON'T! It is vile and it deserves its eternal banishment. I'm probably getting in trouble even mentioning it right now)....