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So, a couple weeks back...I completed a major card project I had been working on for several years. It is a very sentimental project that started out as a dream when I was a child and was ultimately completed as a young adult.
Before I get too far into the project, I thought I would tell you the story as to why this set was sentimental.
When I was in the 4th and 5th (1994 and 1995), my school mates and I played flag football on our school team. A few days each week, we would walk down to the park a few blocks away where we would have practice led by a couple volunteer parents. I think school ended around 2:40 and practice ran 3:30-5:00 or something like that.
Anyway, we always had a few minutes to kill...so many of us would stop at the local convenience store on the way and spend a couple dollars. Normally, we would buy a pack of cards and a couple "Laffy Taffys" as a snack. We'd then head to the park, open our packs, and trade.
The little convenience store was very limited as to the cards they had...they normally had Upper Deck and the newer Upper Deck Collector's Choice product. We normally bought Collector's Choice (UDCC) because it was less expensive. I remember both years...they had boxes of 1994 UDCC football cards for sale.
So, we'd open our packs. I seem to remember a pack contained about a dozen cards...including one parallel card. The 384 base set had two parallel sets, silver and gold. The silver cards were 1 per pack but the golds were 1 per 35 packs (instead of a silver). As you can imagine, we treasured the golds on the rare occasion one appeared, I don't remember anyone ever trading one of those. The silver and gold cards differed from the base only by having the team name printed in foil print on the front of the card in either silver or gold (many of the golds also have a gold boarder).
Today, this set is virtually worthless...but those memories are priceless. At the time, I tried to assemble a base set, but never completed it. I dreamed of a complete gold set, but having only ever seen a couple gold cards...such a thought was nothing more than a pipe dream. It just couldn't be done no matter how bad I wanted one.
Fast-forward a couple decades. I returned to the hobby a few years back and thought a 1994 UDCC gold set might be a fun project...and now with the internet, it might be obtainable. I knew it would be hard, the set wasn't popular and those golds are somewhat scare...plus a complete set contains 384 cards! But, I decided to go for it anyway.
A few weeks back, I completed it. It took about 4 years and a lot more money than I expected, but it is finally complete. I just finished scanning the whole set, it's raw and in a binder. I thought it would be fun to share it with the group...but the set is 43 pages. Rather than posting the whole set at once, I will post one page to this thread per day. That will minimize the image overload and be a little more fun I think.
So, today is page 1. The set starts with the rookie subset. Here are the players on page 1:
#1: Antonio Langham RC (9th overall pick)
#2: Aaron Glenn RC (12th overall pick)
#3: Sam Adams RC (8th overall pick)
#4: DeWayne Washington RC (18th overall pick)
#5: Dan Wilkinson RC (1st overall pick)
#6: Bryant Young RC (7th overall pick)
#7: Aaron Taylor RC (16th overall pick)
#8: Willie McGinest RC (4th overall pick)
#9 Trev Alberts RC (5th overall pick)
Here is page 1:
Before I get too far into the project, I thought I would tell you the story as to why this set was sentimental.
When I was in the 4th and 5th (1994 and 1995), my school mates and I played flag football on our school team. A few days each week, we would walk down to the park a few blocks away where we would have practice led by a couple volunteer parents. I think school ended around 2:40 and practice ran 3:30-5:00 or something like that.
Anyway, we always had a few minutes to kill...so many of us would stop at the local convenience store on the way and spend a couple dollars. Normally, we would buy a pack of cards and a couple "Laffy Taffys" as a snack. We'd then head to the park, open our packs, and trade.
The little convenience store was very limited as to the cards they had...they normally had Upper Deck and the newer Upper Deck Collector's Choice product. We normally bought Collector's Choice (UDCC) because it was less expensive. I remember both years...they had boxes of 1994 UDCC football cards for sale.
So, we'd open our packs. I seem to remember a pack contained about a dozen cards...including one parallel card. The 384 base set had two parallel sets, silver and gold. The silver cards were 1 per pack but the golds were 1 per 35 packs (instead of a silver). As you can imagine, we treasured the golds on the rare occasion one appeared, I don't remember anyone ever trading one of those. The silver and gold cards differed from the base only by having the team name printed in foil print on the front of the card in either silver or gold (many of the golds also have a gold boarder).
Today, this set is virtually worthless...but those memories are priceless. At the time, I tried to assemble a base set, but never completed it. I dreamed of a complete gold set, but having only ever seen a couple gold cards...such a thought was nothing more than a pipe dream. It just couldn't be done no matter how bad I wanted one.
Fast-forward a couple decades. I returned to the hobby a few years back and thought a 1994 UDCC gold set might be a fun project...and now with the internet, it might be obtainable. I knew it would be hard, the set wasn't popular and those golds are somewhat scare...plus a complete set contains 384 cards! But, I decided to go for it anyway.
A few weeks back, I completed it. It took about 4 years and a lot more money than I expected, but it is finally complete. I just finished scanning the whole set, it's raw and in a binder. I thought it would be fun to share it with the group...but the set is 43 pages. Rather than posting the whole set at once, I will post one page to this thread per day. That will minimize the image overload and be a little more fun I think.
So, today is page 1. The set starts with the rookie subset. Here are the players on page 1:
#1: Antonio Langham RC (9th overall pick)
#2: Aaron Glenn RC (12th overall pick)
#3: Sam Adams RC (8th overall pick)
#4: DeWayne Washington RC (18th overall pick)
#5: Dan Wilkinson RC (1st overall pick)
#6: Bryant Young RC (7th overall pick)
#7: Aaron Taylor RC (16th overall pick)
#8: Willie McGinest RC (4th overall pick)
#9 Trev Alberts RC (5th overall pick)
Here is page 1:
