1984 Topps "glossy send-in" Question

[TanksAndSpartans]

Thanks guys!

Obiwin - I appreciate the link - its so strange that I have all 30 "send-in" cards plus duplicates, yet no recollection of mailing anything in. I guess it was a long time ago, but still - I usually have a good memory for this stuff. (I remember Boba Fett was a mail in ). One interesting thing which I can't do until my next trip to see the folks will be checking my duplicates to see if they are in multiples of five since it says 25 yards = 5 cards and there are 30 cards. I wonder how one specified which cards they wanted to avoid getting the same 5 over and over.... Any idea? The game card didn't list the 30 players.

Shawn thanks, I'm basically done too. I had 395/396 cards from the main set, 8/11 glossy star player cards and all of the "send-in" cards. I picked up the Seahawks team card with Curt Warner shown below on eBay and 2/3 glossy cards from COMC (Gastineau and Bartkowski are in my inventory and I have an offer out for Earnest Gray). (I attached one more image showing 2 of the gaps in my glossy cards.) The centering is so off, but I like the fact I pulled these cards. It's definitely a different kind of project than my Chicle set - this one is more relaxing.

Finally, what did you mean when mentioning black/blue borders? There's variations?

Thanks Again!

[sockwell123]

Sorry.. Glossy inserts, and black background

[TanksAndSpartans]

Originally Posted by sockwell123

Sorry.. Glossy inserts, and black background

Got it - thanks. My guess is neither wax nor cello packs had the glossy star cards and these were what they typically had at convenience stores where I would have been buying cards since they were walking/biking distance. I think the rack packs did, but it would've taken a car ride to get these which was less common. So probably we all had less of the glossy cards.

[sockwell123]

This was a couple years before I started buying cards in the 80's..but I bought the entire lot of black bordered cards from a card seller in the mid 90's

[TanksAndSpartans]

Sadly, this was actually the only football set I ever collected - I have baseball cards from throughout the 80s, but not football. It would have been nice if the kid me had left the adult me something else to work on - but this was it.