Well, a sweet college friend sent these to be to commemorate the IU undefeated season and championship run. No, I’ll never open it or drink it. But I will use the glasses on occasion’

The rally towel is the collectable, but the memories of being in the second row to watch my team win their first national championship, an undefeated season, the Heisman winner and coach of the year was unparalleled. And to run the gauntlet and win on enemy turf made it even better. What a game! The biggest turnaround in sports history. I never would have thought it could happen in my lifetime! Hoo-hoo-hoo-Hoosiers!

While this card does not have a lot of intrinsic value, it has value to me. As an Indiana University graduate, I went to a lot of football games in the early to mid 1990s. I was born and raised in Indiana and have a long-standing relationship with Indiana sports. What has happened over the past two years is not something I ever expected to happen in my entire lifetime. Indiana has never been a football school and has been long overshadowed in the Big Ten.A turn around like this in the last two years is unheard of in sports at any level, really. It’s been so exciting to watch IU have this kind of turnaround… It’s like watching a Disney movie. Let’s see if Mendoza and the Hoosiers can cap off a perfect season with a victory against Miami on Monday night! Go Hoosiers!

One hour until kick off - one of the biggest IU games in their history. Indiana is ranked #7 and Oregon is ranked #3. Both teams are undefeated - but on the road kn Oregon is going to be super hard - the line has Oregon by 7.5. For good luck, I’m posing one of the former Hoosiers that I had the most fun watching - Antwaan Randle-El who played QB at the college level and WR in the NFL (and also point guard in college!). Here are a couple of the cards of his I like - I’m still looking for a sweet patch auto or superfractor or other 1/1 of his! Go Hoosiers!

Calbert Cheney was the smoothest player I’ve ever seen play college basketball in person. Thankfully, I went to IU while he was there under Coach Bob Knight. They had some amazing teams in Bloomington when I was in college! While he never materialized as the superstar I thought he would be in the NBA, and he just missed the late 90s high-end parallels. This retro skybox Ruby produced by upper deck once they obtained the Fleer and A Skybox IP is still super cool. I’ll be at cheap card to have in my collection. If anyone has any rare Calbert cards, please shoot me a DM! Still looking for his IU debut and record-breaking Big Ten scoring ticket/stub, too!