Football Card and Football Memorabilia Hobby News Headlines from Across the Country and World.
Anyone who was watching football last weekend couldn’t dispute the impact this year’s rookie class made on the gridiron. Chris “Beanie” Wells, Jeremy Maclin, Shonn Greene and Mark Sanchez all turned in memorable performances in their respective playoff games. The 2009 NFL season has been an exciting one with standout performances virtually every week from [...]
With time running out on Topps’ time as a football card manufacturer, perhaps this is the perfect time to release some cards commemorating its very first foray onto the gridiron.
The latest series of eTopps football cards, offered or the first time today (January 11) at 1 pm, do exactly that. They carry the design of [...]
Even in today’s market, a single set of football cards that costs $5,000 is something most collectors wouldn’t even consider buying. But what if that set contained autographs from over 100 of the best football players of all time?
That’s exactly what the Pro Football Hall of Fame has put together with its set of Bronze [...]
Local fans and collectors will soon get the opportunity to get autographs from several former Cincinnati Bengals Stars to the backdrop of an impressive 4,800 sq ft holiday train display. The event, scheduled for early December, is a charitable endeavor that will benefit the Multiple Sclerosis Society and Oxford’s Community Cooperative Nursery School.
The event will [...]
Even though the trend in the sports card industry has been to reduce the number of licensees in all of the major sports, football had been the lone holdout. Certainly, most collectors weren’t expecting that there would soon be a world without football brands like Topps Chrome, Bowman and Triple Threads.
Yet that appears to be [...]
England Patriots defensive lineman Jarvis Green is no stranger to philanthropy. In addition to hosting two separate local events that went to benefit local single working moms, he spearheaded a fundraiser to raise money for Hurricane Katrina victims in his native Louisiana.
Green hopes to eclipse the success of his past events when he hosts the [...]
Over the weekend former Nebraska football player Aaron Taylor’s collection of football memorabilia was sold in a Scottsbluff, Nebraska bankruptcy auction. The auction was held in conjunction with a Chapter 7 bankruptcy ruling ordering the former Cornhusker lineman to repay at least $109,543 in debts that resulted from a failed business venture he had been [...]
The Show at Chantilly, one of the most popular sports collectibles shows in the country, is returning for 2009 to the Dulles Expo Center from October 30 through November 1. The long standing show will feature an A-list group of autograph guests from multiple sports.
The NFL Player of the Day program is in its 10th year of existence and is still going strong. This year’s events were kicked off with an autograph session by Dallas Cowboys Wide Receiver Patrick Crayton.
Crayton appeared at Gil’s Infield, a sports card shop located in Duncanville, Texas, to promote the Player of the Day [...]
Thanks to the magic of augmented reality technology, Topps and Total Immersion have had visitors to ToppsTown playing games with virtual baseball players all summer long. Now the two companies are allowing collectors to interact with NFL football players in much the same way.
Special code cards unlock the new game at ToppsTown (www.toppstown.com). Anyone with [...]