When I first got back into collecting a few years ago, I was told to buy a hobby box. You can imagine the sticker shock I felt when I realized what used to be 36 packs for ~$40 (back when I stopped collecting in the mid-90s) was now over $300 for a box of maybe 5 packs. But surely that meant there had to be valuable cards inside! Lmfaoooo

Anyway, on my last pack I pulled one of the greatest QBs ever numbered to /25 and I was ecstatic! Until I checked eBay and learned that in today’s hobby decent RCs > HOFers and /25 may as well mean /5000.

I love this John Elway card though. It serves as an amusing memory of the time I got back into the hobby and realized just how much everything had changed 😂

When he whistled a ball to his target in a 1985 game against the Raiders, Elway left even one of the NFL’s premier cornerback shaking his head. “I barely saw the blur.” Lester Hayes said “he nailed me. Elway is unstoppable. he’s done things I’ve never seen before and I’ve got lots of film”

I just love the 2005 Topps All-Time Fan Favorites John Elway in the 1981 Topps design, as he was drafted by the Yankees in Round 2 that year (6 spots ahead of Tony Gwynn!).

Such a cool (and cheap) card!