Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time

2 Weeks ago, I was almost done sorting Topps Football 2015.  I had to enter them into various databases, but that was about it.  When I went to Casey's for gas, I figured I would pick up a couple packs.  No big deal.  I'll sort them quick and be done.

2 Weeks Later...

So...Um...I ended up getting some more packs.  and a couple hanger boxes.  Each of those stacks is about 36 cards.  So that is about 396 cards.

Looks like I have some more work to do.

First Big Name Viking Of 2015!!!

I have no idea how many more cards it took, but I finally pulled my first Viking who did something last season!!  And it's Adrian Peterson!!

I got some other Vikings players (From other packs) and have 5 or 6 total.  Not sure how many there are in the set, but I have more then I did :)

Little Blue Army Man

I collect stuff other then cards.  I also like Blind Bag figures.  I have figures from Lego (Both regular and Simpsons) Megabloks (Halo and TMNT) most of the Hot Wheels from the last two years (Will be finishing that on Friday) and more.

Why do I mention that?  Because today I got my 50th unique Halo minifig!

It is a Spartan Soldier.  I have more then 50 figures total, probably closer to 75.  I use the extras for tokens when playing Pathfinder.  They make good enemies.  

So yeah.  Nothing too exciting.  Just the 50th unique one I've gotten.

Bad Timing

Hey look! It's Robert Griffin III of the Washington Red...never mind.

First Viking of 2015

Ok, so it is 2016, but this is the first Vikings card I got for the base set from a 2015 card set!!!

It's a rookie, and I don't remember him doing much this season, but it is still a Viking.  Only took 160 cards to find one from the base set.

Now to see who I get for my first viking who isn't a rookie/actually did something last season

Tom Brady's Twitter Handle is...

Still sorting football cards.  No Vikings yet (Well, a couple, but no base cards, which is what I'm sorting right now.  Both Vikings inserts are Adrian Peterson though, so that is good.)  Not that exciting though.  Think I only have 1 Dolphin too.

I did find something rather interesting on the back of #125--Tom Brady's card.

See that part at the top?  The empty blue area below the number?  On most cards, that is where the player's Twitter handle goes.  like @Nocturok (Shameless self promotion for a social media outlet I rarely use anymore, but if you want to follow me go right ahead.)  But nope.  None for Tom Brady.

I'm kind of surprised by this.  I never looked too closely and just happened to notice it on his card (more on why I was looking closer in a bit) but I figured if anyone would be on Twitter, it would be one of the biggest names in the NFL.

Not too suprising (and the reason I was looking closer at his card) is there is no mention of Deflate-gate.  Maybe there is on some other company's cards, but not Topps 2015 football.  They did that for Adrian Peterson as well.  I think Score mentioned that he had a year off or something, but that was it. Not that it matters, especially for something like Deflate-Gate, which didn't cause Brady to miss any games.  I just thought it was rather interesting how card companies handle stuff like that.

BTW, If anyone from Topps reads this, I have an idea for an insert set.  Famous controversies..