Single Card Mail Day:2009 Prestige Prestigious Picks Autograph Hakeem Nicks

The NY Giants have always been known for being an old school team of running and playing good defense.

But, to me, a part of this team that seems to always gets forgotten is the amount of good wide receivers they have had over the years.

We have had Gifford, Hilliard, Toomer, Baker, McCaffrey, Cruz, Beckham, Burress, Rote, Ingram, Jones, Smith, Manuel, and so on and so forth. I think a lot of these guys don't get enough recognition as many lived in the many, many rebuilding Giants years. So, they don't stand out like the stars they are.

One of my favorite ones I didn't list yet was Hakeem Nicks who not only played in over 70 games, had over 4500 yards along with over 20 TDs in his big blue career, but had a huge role in the Giants Super Bowl 46 run where he dominated throughout the playoffs.

Anytime I find a cheap card of him, I will add it.

When it's a rookie card autograph numbered to 100 for under $5, you bet I grab it.

 

 

Not the prettiest card in the world, but still a nice one to have.

I was thinking that I should add my Nicks collection to Trading Card Database sometime. See where I stand among the crowd with mine.

Who is your favorite wide out on your team?

Have a great Tuesday!

Eli Countdown To 1.5K: 1024, 1025, 1026,1027, 1028

Well, it appears I haven't done an Eli Manning update on here in a while, so we are jumping ahead a little on my countdown. However, I can tell you today that this number is completely up to date on where I am at currently.

Let's check out the latest adds!

1024: 2023 Prestige Base

1025:2023 Prestige Living Legends

1026: 2023 Prestige Xtra Points Pink /25. This adds to my rainbow chase but I can't tell the difference between the base parallel and the xtra points parallel. What makes it harder is the fact they have the same numbering!! So I am calling this Xtra points one. It's a pretty one is all I can say.

 

1027:2023 Absolute Championship Fabric. Super Bowl relics and Eli Manning are must haves!

 

1028: 2023 Absolute Canton Absolutes. He's heading to the Hall Of Fame, no argument over it. This is a nice two-color patch.

We are creeping closer to 1100. Hopefully I can move this along a little faster as time goes on. Really hard to find anyone trading Eli.

More updates as they come along will be posted!

Eli Countdown To 1K: 991,992,993,994,995,996,997,998,999

Well, last I posted my Eli chase on here I ended at card 973. 

For some reason, all of the cards I had from 974-990 disappeared from drafts so I guess we will have to fast forward some. Nothing wrong with that right?

So, let's get this party started as I creep ever so closely to 1,000 Eli Manning cards.

991 was a Twitter RAK. It's a 2023 Chronicles Draft Clearly.

992 was another RAK this time it's a numbered card from Topps Triple Threads. I believe an emerald parallel.

993 and the rest are all from a trade I did with @90sNicheFBcards on Twitter. Just before he mailed my package, he pulled this 2023 Prestige purple /99 from a pack and tossed it along.

994 is a Rookies and Starts /99

995 is a Heritage Chrome /1950

996 is from 2022 Prestige. This is a simple insert I probably would have pulled if I bought any cards last two years. But, I got it anyways thanks to a trade.

997 is a 2022 Prizm Pandora parallel

998 is one of the most unique/coolest parallels of 2023. Alien! Have you seen anything cooler??! These were super SSP's, probably case hit level.

 

And Card 999 is one I have been wanting for a while, a nice big swatch Pro Bowl jersey.

Thanks again to Bryan for helping me add these and build me closer to 1K.

Well, we are almost there. Will one of my next few posts on here be the magic number? We will see....

Eli's Cardboard:2022 Prestige Dot Parallel Eli Manning

Eli Manning has taken bit of a step back in terms of pickups recently for my Giants collection, not that I still don't consider him a top chase for my PC, I just have been focusing on other parts of my Giants PC instead.

However, thanks to a Twitter trade, I added my first parallel from 2022 Prestige of Eli.

 

This is a dots parallel, looks pretty cool and similar to something you might have seen in the Pacific Revolution products.

Thoughts on the parallel or the new add welcomed in comments.

Eli's Cardboard:2022 Prestige Any Given Sunday Holofoil Xtra Points /25

Today's latest Eli addition is pretty obvious on why I added it.

 

It features the GOAT of all time Super Bowls in Super Bowl 42.

I have said this so many times on here and I will beat that drum again. I will continue to add as many new Giants Super Bowl cards as I can from Super Bowl 42 and Super Bowl 46. 

Those games are just that important to me.

I had considered at one point chasing the rainbow of today's card with this one and the base version done, until something went wrong with the 1/1 that I came so close to owning. More on that another time.

Thoughts on today's card welcomed in comments.

Brent's Former Giants

Once A Giant, Always a Giant is the saying for us NY fans.

And it's one I take to heart.

Even if it's a player who may had faked injuries or didn't want to play for the team.

Or a player that had so much potential, but could never quite put it all together.

 

Or a player that really struggled blocking and didn't even seem to exist on the field.

They are still Giants in my heart and my collection.

Which is why I pulled off a quick trade with my buddy @Brent3323 to land these new ones who doesn't hold onto former Giants.

Thanks again to Brent for these. They fit perfectly into my collection.

Thoughts on the latest adds or the players featured is welcomed in comments.

Pack Pulled Again

I hate bye weeks. It's so boring.

But I can say I am still excited about the future of this team after a 6-2 start. The Seahawks loss was a tough one to swallow as the team reverted back to looking a little like last year, but I still feel with the schedule they have remaining, they can still make a run at this thing.

All I want out of this team for the second half of the season is a playoff berth. One playoff game would bring me so much joy.

I guess we will see how they play out of the bye this week against Houston.

Now onto today's post. This is almost like a sequel to a previous post where I pack pulled some Giants. It doesn't happen often, so I got to celebrate it.

Recently, I started busting some older packs I had sitting around and one of those was a 2021 Prestige Hanger pack.

To my surprise, I landed three NY Giants pulls.

A Living Legends of Jeremy Shockey. Still my favorite Tight End ever to watch.

Darius Slayton Xtra Points Astral Stars parallel. I just picked him up for my fantasy football team that is struggling at the WR position.

 

Final card I found was an Xtra Points Green of Daniel Jones numbered to 199.

Pretty decent finds for my collection.

Thoughts on my latest adds, the second half of the Giants season and what you expect from your team in the second half of the season welcomed in comments.

Eli's Cardboard:2022 Prestige Prestigious Moments

It's Sunday, which means it is Giants Game Day.

Today, the G-Men put on the retro uniforms and take on the Chicago Bears at home. I hope it just goes better than their Monday Night outing against Dallas. I think all of the whiteout from the crowd blinded the offensive lineman from blocking for Daniel Jones. That was plain ugly.

Which is why today, I am taking us back to a better time.

Yes, we are going to look at another Super Bowl 42 card.

This card is a bit different of a Super Bowl 42 card than we have seen before. No Helmet catch picture, this one actually focuses on the bigger key part of the helmet catch play.

Which was Eli escaping the sack somehow from multiple Patriot defenders. I remember watching it live and thought, this is it, he is going down, game over. But, somehow, Eli managed to get away and threw the ball to David Tyree for the helmet catch. 

Back of this card describes the play.

I added this card pretty cheap, despite it being a case hit insert in this year's Prestige. Others have gone for more than what I grabbed it for.

Thoughts on my newest Eli, this play or if you have chased any Case Hits recently welcomed in comments.

Let's Go Giants!!

Eli's Cardboard:2022 Prestige Any Given Sunday

With it being football Sunday, it's time for a new Eli's Cardboard.

And it's also because there are no new Rodneys in recently. There is however, plenty of Eli.

Today the Gmen don't play as they have a Monday nighter against the Dallas Cowboys so I won't give any input on that game.

However, I have given plenty of input on Eli Manning and on Super Bowl 42 which is featured on today's card.

There are no Eli's that I grab sooner than ones that feature either Super Bowl 42 or Super Bowl 46. I have to have them.

Of course, that goes for all other Super Bowl Giants cards.

 

Panini included some new Eli cards in its 2022 Prestige product. So far, I have a couple of these and the base card. Many more to chase and show off.

Hope everyone has a Happy Football Sunday! Good luck to your teams! Unless they are the Eagles or Commanders.

Single Card Mail Day:2022 Prestige Wan'Dale Robinson

It's almost time for some NY Giants football and I have been ready since last season ended!

This years rookie class for the NY Giants was very exciting, though not a lot of guys I will particularly chase down like in the past years draft such as Saquon Barkley, Kadarius Toney and Daniel Jones . 

But, one guy has me intrigued.

Wan'Dale Robinson should be a fun piece for the Giants offense. He can do pretty much anything on the field, which will be great in an offense that could really use some firepower.

I recently added only my second card of Robinson in the mail.

This is his 2022 Prestige rookie card,

Still a lot of college uni product out there is why I haven't added more. I prefer pro uniforms.

I can't wait to see how the Gmen utilize Robinson in this offense and hopefully he makes an impact.

Thoughts on my latest add or Robinson welcomed in comments.

My Kayvon Collection

With the 5th pick of the 2022 NFL Draft...the NY Giants select...Kayvon Thibodeaux, Oregon.

Draft night this year was really exciting if you were a Giants fan. We were able to draft two big studs in the first round along with some other fun pieces in the other rounds. Hopefully most of these guys pan out because this team needs them to.

The most important piece is Kayvon to me. This defense has lacked a pass rushing fiend since the Super Bowl winning years.

Fingers crossed he can stay healthy after his preseason injury and be all the hype the draft experts said he would be.

Here is my collection so far of him. Most of these have come via trading,

(closest to a Giants card of him I have)

 

And my first and only auto. Gotta thank my buddy @StephenJFurlong for trading it to me.

I hope to add an NFL autograph of him at some point in Giants uni.

Thoughts on Kayvon and my collection so far welcomed in comments.