Project Purge: Football (NFL) Team Lots

PROJECT PURGE:

Are You Ready For Some Football?

Football (NFL) Team Lots

Published: 17 FEB 2024 Updated: 04  MAR 2024

Marx Brothers from "Horse Feathers" football scene from internet.

I am currently in the early stages of a huge collection purge or partial purge at least. I kicked things off on 16 Jan (2024) with a post for some Basketball Team Lots that I had prepared and put into a monster box. I put a post up at TCDB.com and then was going to post the offer up here on my blog near the end of the month, however, the response was so intense I rushed to make an updated blog post. Most of the claims came from the database no surprise there. I was a bit surprised that team sets of mostly 1990s base cards with doubles and multiples would be claimed so fast. A little more than a day and a half after the original posting time and ALL the lots were claimed. A TCDB member claimed the last 5 teams and some of the random type card lots. Needless to say his was the biggest package BOX I had to send out. About the size of a USPS med sized flat rate box.

As I did with the Basketball lots I am only shipping to USA addresses. Sorry international postage is just too expensive and there is no practicle package tracking systems.

 

It is time for some Football. Like the Basketball lots they are mostly base cards and some inserts. For the Basketball I didn't specify the cards were almost exclusively just common base (some of the teams have an insert or two but no "hits"), By saying most of the cards were 1990s (the "Junk Wax") years I was sort of implying the lots were all common base cards. I'm sorry if some people thought there might be more precious gems in the lots.

I had been in a Football team traders group for a long time. To get trade fodder for the group I ripped open some packs and boxes of newer product and often purchased team lots from Ebay. These Football lots may contain some autos or relic cards. No guarantees though as most teams will have neither. The year ranges are also a little larger than the 1989 to 2007 range the Basketball lots had. Some of these team lots go up to 2019 or 2020, with many teams, but not all, including 2014-2017 cards.

Not all teams in the league will be available at this time. I will try to ship things out in a timely manner but with the lessons learned from the Basketball Lots I will not try rushing everything all at once. Some people will have to wait for a little while. I also plan on shipping most lots in the small flat rate boxes. I had tried avoiding those but many of the basketball lot packages ended up costing over $10 to ship (I had only asked $6 for shipping costs) and small flat rate boxes ship for around $10.50 now.

Some team lots will include an auto card or relic card but there is no guarantee of getting either. Most team lots will just contain common base cards with maybe some inserts, but no "hits".

Most cards will be in EX condition, but not all. Spome cards may have creases and maybe some dings or ware on the corners or edges. Not as badly as many vintage cards but they still maybe noticable.

Shipping for team lots will be $11 per lot. You can request more than one team but be advised that shipping might be delayed as I search for a larger box to ship. Teams with fewer cards I might be able to ship for cheaper but that isn't guaranteed, and if requesting multiple teams it will most likely be $11 to ship anyway.

NFL FOOTBALL TEAM LOTS

49ers 79 cards 1990-2016 - CLAIMED

Bears 30 cards 1989-2016

Bengals 168 cards 1990-2019

Bills 81 cards 1991-2016

Broncos 17 cards 1991-2016 

Browns 197 cards 1990-2019

Buccaneers 408 cards 1990-2019 - CLAIMED

Cardinals 394 cards 1990-2019 - CLAIMED

Chargers 48 cards 1990-2019

Chiefs 67 cards 1995-2019

Colts 77 cards 1992-2019

Dolphins 242 cards 1990-2019

Eagles 251 cards 1990-2019 - CLAIMED

Falcons 227 cards 1990-2019

Giants 28 cards 1990-2016

Jaguars 297 cards 1995-2019

Jets 11 cards 1992-2016

Lions 53 cards 1990-2019

Packers 53 cards 1990-2019

Panthers 121 cards 1995-2019

Patriots 72 cards 1988-2019 - CLAIMED

Raiders 228 cards 1992-2019 - CLAIMED

Saints 15 cards 1991-2016

Seahawks 266 cards 1990-2016 - CLAIMED

Steelers 17 cards 1990-2019

Texans 17 cards 2003-2016

Titans 84 cards 2000-2019

Project Purge

Purging Project: Basketball Team Lots ALL LOTS CLAIMED

 

UPDATE: 18Jan2024 4:50 PM

ALL TEAM LOTS have now been CLAIMED.

Thank you to all the TCDB members, and my blog readers who made claims for the lots. I am still waiting on a few addresses and shipping payments. A Big thank you to the TCDB member who grabbed the last 5 teams, the checklists and the remainder of the Classic lots.

In a long needed effort to purge excess stuff from my card collection and related paraphernalia. I have thought of purging things before, but times have gotten more desperate. An apartment inspection woke me up to my cluttered housekeeping of over 15 years. I decluttered lots of things and made a small dent but didn't purge any trading cards. I made the panic mistake of purging a ton of comic books (without going through what I had), magazines and even some computer floppy discs that a few weeks later I realized some of the files on some of the discs might have been important for various aspects of my life and maybe some original writings. But OH Well Stuff is Stuff.

I will soon start prepping some of my Trading Cards for purging. Way back when I used to belong to some team trader groups I had a fantasy of having one monster box filled with trade fodder for each of the four major US sports (Baseball, Basketball, Football, Hockey) even though I only belonged to team trader groups for Baseball and Football. For the football group I did have a monster box filled with trade fodder for each team in the league. As I would make the monthly trades I would replenish the teams that I was out of or low on. As part of the organization I used those worthless "card savers" as divider tabs. I use a simple file folder label w/ the team nickname written on it in sharpie and put that on the top of the card saver and load that team's cards behind the card saver divider. I now have a Basketball monster box set up and ready for the cards to find a new home. I currently have most of the current teams available. I plan on Purging by team lots.

For interested parties I can send you a nice team lot of NBA cards. All I ask for in return is $6 for first 2 teams. Please add $1 for each additional team after that..  Sorry I'm only sending to USA addresses. For Basketball I have team lots of about 90% of the teams in the league. I even have some draft cards of college guys who were "free agents" and never made the NBA, a handful maybe went pro overseas. Unfortunately for me most of the cards are from the decade of the 1990s. Yes like a ton of other card collectors I have a problem with super overstock of "Junk Wax" cards. Year ranges for team lots are from 1989 to around 2007 with most teams having cards from 1990 to 1996 or 97. Not many 1992 or 93. Some brands and years will only have 1 card, some might have a dozen or more. There are duplicates and in some cases multiples some 3 or more copies. Sorry I don't have time to go back over the lots to cherry pick for specific players, brands or years. Some lots may have a super star and some may not. These lots are excellent for trade fodder if you are in a team trading group. 

I have even been toying with the idea of signing up to sell on Sportlots (been buying from there for years), but I am a bit leery about selling there. Mostly due to the high fees they charge especially if you have low sales. Plus I would have to make sure I had close to a 1,000+ cards ready to roll there to start seeing some results. I would also open my sellers account under a different user name. I'm already "captkirk" as a buyer, hmm but not "captkirk42". If I mess up as a seller there I don't want to be banned from buying there. If I were to have a huge selling day of buyers buying more cards than can fit in a PWE or small bubble mailer I don't have many small boxes or larger mailers on hand right now.. That fear is also what keeps me from adding more listings and larger items onto Ebay.

Current status of my Basketball Monster box, the card counts are approximate and for some of the teams might be off by a few cards as I added some rookies and draft cards of guys where the card doesn't mention the team they were drafted to but the player eventually went pro and I had to do a Google search to see if they ever played pro ball. 

BASKETBALL TEAM LOTS

Note: Since I only have 3 Knicks cards available right now I'll waive shipping costs and send in a PWE.

76ers 1989-2006 116 cards CLAIMED

Bucks 1990-1999 141 cards CLAIMED

Bulls 1989-2004 151 cards CLAIMED

Cavaliers 1990-2000 115 cards CLAIMED

Celtics 1989-1999 160 cards CLAIMED

Clippers 1989-2000 152 cards CLAIMED

Grizzlies 1995-2000 50 cards CLAIMED

Hawks 1990-2000 179 cards CLAIMED

Heat 1989-2007 133 cards CLAIMED

Hornets 1990-2000 106 cards CLAIMED

Jazz 1990-2006 109 cards CLAIMED

Kings 1990-2000 133 cards CLAIMED

Knicks 1991 & 1994 3 cards PWE SPECIAL CLAIMED

Lakers 1990-1999 132 cards CLAIMED

Magic 1990-1999 93 cards CLAIMED

Mavericks 1990-1999 127 cards CLAIMED

Nets 1989-2007 135 cards CLAIMED

Nuggets 1990-1999 165 cards CLAIMED

Pacers 1989-1999 126 cards CLAIMED

Pistons 1990-1998 78 cards CLAIMED

Raptors 1995-2003 51 cards CLAIMED

Rockets 1990-2007 147 cards CLAIMED

Spurs 1990-2007 161 cards CLAIMED

Suns 1989-2007 165 cards CLAIMED

Supersonics 1990-1999 133 cards CLAIMED

Timberwolves 1990-2006 163 cards CLAIMED

Trailblazers 1990-2000 72 cards CLAIMED

Warriors 1990-1999 124 cards CLAIMED

Checklists, Ads and Filler Cards 36 cards CLAIMED

College and Undrafted Players with a few college coaches 31 cards CLAIMED

1991 Classic Basketball Draft Picks 26 cards multiples CLAIMED

1992 Wild Card Basketball 1st Edition Lot of approx 233 cards with multiples not complete set. CLAIMED

1993 Classic Basketball Draft Picks Full Set 110 cards (2 sets) both sets CLAIMED. Plus I have multiples of most cards in the set but no more complete sets.  I could make about 3 or 4 partial sets and still have a few individual cards. CLAIMED

First come first serve. If interested in one of the team lots please email me klandersen at yahoo.

I am updating this post as I get requests for team lots in an effort to have it as current as possible.

Project Purge

Last Update: 31 Jan 2024

1993 Upper Deck Football Team Checklists Sub-Set

 

As part of my recent Sportlots shopping spree back in May or June whenever it was I concentrated on some sub-sets to complete one of them was this set of team checklists from 1993 Upper Deck Football. The backgrounds suggest they are paintings but I think they are photographs altered to look like paintings. Anyway there are 28 cards in this sub-set as there were 28 teams in the NFL in 1993.

The Team Checklist subset are card numbers 63 to 90 and are in alphabetical order by team nickname

The team checklists have a big star from the team on the front The Redskins card has Earnest Byner on the front and the team checklist is as shown below:

Here are the other 27 team cards fronts only 

Washington Wednesday: On A Saturday I must be CRAZY

OK so this probably should be a Washington Wednesday episode, but it isn't because I needed a "quick and dirty" post for the end of this month (Feb) to keep up with my minimum of one post a month. I don't seem to have scanned the back of it whenever I did scan the thing. It is blank anyway. I thought I had mentioned it at one time, maybe it was only on my trading card forum blogs I mentioned it. Oh well So on with what you really want to see:

1979-1980 Topps Hockey Mini Poster - 16 Washington Capitals Team

I got this from Ebay I think for incredibly cheap, meaning $10 or less probably more like $5 or less. These mini-posters were included folded up as an insert in the regular 1979-80 Topps Hockey Card packs I believe. It is the size of four standards cards. Mine is in pretty good condition I don't think there are any tears or holes on the crease folds. If there are they are very tiny. I'd like to get the other 15 from this set eventually but it is not a huge priority.

Purge Giveaway Basketball Edition

Basketball Card Purge Giveaway

Want cards from your favorite NBA team?

I think every collector at some point has to thin out the herd at least once, and purge Purge PURGE! Well I need to get rid of a bunch of Basketball trade fodder. So I am giving away team lots except for the Washington Wizards/Bullets my Homie team I collect.

The number of cards in each lot will vary. Some teams may only have 5 or 6 cards others 50 cards or more. Most of the players are the common guys, some of the teams may have one of their superstars. Some will not have any stars just the Joe Commons.

To claim a team lot just name your team in a comment to this post. Lots will go first come first serve.

Available Teams: (as of 20 June 2014)
Atlanta Hawks
Boston Celtics
Charlotte Hornets/Bobcats/Hornets
Chicago Bulls
Cleveland Cavaliers
Dallas Mavericks
Denver Nuggets
Detroit Pistons
Golden State Warriors
Houston Rockets
Indiana Pacers
LA Clippers
LA Lakers
Vancouver/Memphis Grizzlies
Miami Heat
Milwaukee Bucks
Minnesota Timberwolves
New Jersey Nets
New Orleans Hornets/Pelicans
New York Knicks
Oklahoma City Thunder
Orlando Magic
Philadelphia Sixers
Phoenix Suns
Portland Trail Blazers
Sacramento Kings
San Antonio Spurs
Seattle SuperSonics
Toronto Raptors
Utah Jazz
Washington Wizards

You may also sign up for my new Team Lot Mailing List that I posted about yesterday. Sign-Up form is on right hand side-bar. That is a similar yet separate project, but I will combine requests from both to jump-start things. I came up with this purging idea for the basketball before I came up with the mailing list idea. Oh I should have mentioned yesterday to expect duplicates. Well I've mentioned it now, but I will try to avoid "Bipping" anyone.

I'm hoping I won't get too overwhelmed by requests. I don't want to be constantly shipping out packages. I also hope I don't have to start spending random tons of money on random tons of cards to fill packages.

If successful I will try to keep the mailing list idea open full time. If it bombs well then I'll have to find another way to purge my duplicates and unwanted (by me anyway) Non-PC cards.

New Feature: Team Lot Mailing List

Want Cards From Your Favorite Team?

For Free?

Attention Team collectors!

Do you want to get cards from your favorite team?

At any time Out of the blue? 

All you have to do is sign up for my "Team Lot Mailing List" by filling out the form on the right hand side bar (it should send me an email with your name and teams) Please make sure you include your mailing address along with your team in the main message field. I'll add you to a mailing list that I will refer to periodically and randomly pick someone to send a batch of cards to.

I will periodically send out cards from Baseball, Football, Hockey and Basketball. You can sign up for all 4 sports if you wish. You can also sign up for 2 teams from the same sport, but most of the time I will just send one team to keep me from getting confused while pulling cards to ship out.

The cards will be from random years. They could be fairly new cards or they could be vintage cards, or anywhere in between. Any and all brands will be included as well. Sometimes inserts and higher end cards might be included. The amount of cards will vary also. Sometimes just a small poker hand of 5 or 6 cards or sometimes a huge lot of 100 or more. You will never know exactly what will come your way. I won't know until I cram the cards into a bubble mailer.

Due to postage rates I can only guarantee shipping to the US and Canada. If you live in another country please contact me first before signing up. Non-US packages will not be as often but will almost always be big batches.

Right now I have Basketball cards I need to purge.

You don't have to send anything back in return, but I realize some people feel obligated to reciprocate from time to time so if you just have to return the favor My teams are the Washington and Baltimore teams. Plus you can check out my Master Want List and What I Collect page to cater stuff to me.

Joy of a Complete Team Set: 1965 Senators

OH hey a trip to my LCS over the weekend helped me with some Homie team goodies including the official Joy of a complete team set. Unfortunately I won't mention them on this regular blog, but fortunately I do yack about it on my Curly W Cards blog. The story includes this dog of a card:

and how I turned it around from this:

To this:

Yeah that is much better and Don likes it better too. See no more moss growing on his hat:

So this helps with my Strive For '65 campaign. It now stands at 157/598 (599)

Group Break No 1: Randomizing

OK so I randomized the remaining 21 teams 3 times and randomized our members names 3 times. I listed each members name (minus myself) three times with R1, R2, R3 (for random 1, random 2, random 3) here are the final results for each randomization:

Here are The Members:

List Randomizer

There were 21 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1. Wilson 2nd R3
2. Fred Kerner R3
3. Wilson R1
4. Wilson R3
5. Anthony Hughes R2
6. Wilson R2
7. cynicalbuddha R2
8. cynicalbuddha R3
9. Buckstorecards R2
10. Anthony Hughes R3
11. Fred Kerner R2
12. The Dimwit R1
13. cynicalbuddha R1
14. Anthony Hughes R1
15. The Dimwit R3
16. Fred Kerner R1
17. The Dimwit R2
18. Buckstorecards R3
19. Wilson 2nd R1
20. Wilson 2nd R2
21. Buckstorecards R1

Timestamp: 2013-02-06 05:08:19 UTC
You have randomized this list 3 times.

Here are the Teams:

List Randomizer

There were 21 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1. Oakland Athletics
2. Chicago Cubs
3. Kansas City Royals
4. Minnesota Twins
5. Boston Red Sox
6. Tampa Bay Rays
7. San Francisco Giants
8. Cincinnati Reds
9. San Diego Padres
10. New York Yankees
11. New York Mets
12. Detroit Tigers
13. Colorado Rockies
14. Arizona Diamondbacks
15. Cleveland Indians
16. Pittsburgh Pirates
17. Chicago White Sox
18. Miami Marlins
19. Atlanta Braves
20. Seattle Mariners
21. Texas Rangers

Timestamp: 2013-02-06 05:03:59 UTC
You have randomized this list 3 times.
 
Here is the full list of teams and who has them in team city order:

Teams - Members:
Arizona Diamondbacks - Anthony Hughes
Atlanta Braves - Wilson
Baltimore Orioles - CaptKirk42
Boston Red Sox - Anthony Hughes
Chicago Cubs - Fred Kerner
Chicago White Sox - The Dimwit
Cincinnati Reds - cynicalbuddha
Cleveland Indians - The Dimwit
Colorado Rockies - cynicalbuddha
Detroit Tigers - The Dimwit
Houston Astros - The Dimwit
Kansas City Royals - Wilson
Los Angeles Angels - Anthony Hughes
Los Angeles Dodgers - Wilson
Miami Marlins - Buckstorecards
Milwaukee Brewers - cynicalbuddha
Minnesota Twins - Wilson
New York Mets - Fred Kerner
New York Yankees - Anthony Hughes
Oakland Athletics - Wilson
Philadelphia Phillies - Fred Kerner
Pittsburgh Pirates - Fred Kerner
San Diego Padres - Buckstorecards
San Francisco Giants - cynicalbuddha
Seattle Mariners - Wilson
St. Louis Cardinals - Wilson
Tampa Bay Rays - Wilson
Texas Rangers - Buckstorecards
Toronto Blue Jays - Buckstorecards
Washington Nationals - CaptKirk42