Buzz 12 in 12: Busting 1992 Pro Line football cards (Hour 8)

Do you like Buzz Breaks? Today's your day then as we launch 12 in 12 -- a series of a dozen breaks of wax boxes and wax packs in a dozen hours. We'll post one every hour all day long ... this is Hour 8.

The box: 1992 Pro Line football cards (hobby box -- look for silver stripe at bottom noting autograph ... not gold)
The cost: Will vary when found -- get new football boxes here

What's inside this one? Keep reading ...

Packs per box: 36 in a normal box ... 44 in this one
Cards per pack: 12 in normal packs ... just three per extra pack here
Cards in this box: 456 (this as a funky mispakcked box ... so don't expect any of this to be normal)
Proline Portraits set completion: 
120 of 169 (71 percent)
Duplicates: 2
Proline Profiles set completion: 
233 of 504 (46 percent)
Duplicates/Triplicates: Yes ... a ton.

Notables on Profiles/Portraits cards – Ronnie Lott, Thurman Thomas, Roger Staubach, Jerry Rice, Sterling Sharpe, Anthony Munoz, Art Shell, Don Shula, Joe Gibbs, Junior Seau, Jack Kemp, Troy Aikman, John Elway, Boomer Esiason, Michael Irvin, Steve Largent, Bruce Smith, Derrick Thomas, Eric Dickerson, Howie Long, Mike Singletary, Jim Kelly, Warren Moon, Deion Sanders, Lawrence Taylor, Randall Cunningham, Mike Ditka, Art Monk, Mike Holmgren, Fred Biletnikoff, Otto Graham, Tony Dorsett, Sonny Jurgensen, Jay Novacek, Al Davis, Frank Gifford, Joe Montana, Ken Stabler

Inserts: 20 (all in gallery below with a ton of base cards)
Quarterback Gold (4) – Jim Harbaugh, Jeff Hostetler, Jeff George, Jim Everett
NFL Spirit (9) – Kathie Lee Gifford, Dainnese Gault, Faith Cherry, Diane Long, Diana Ditka, Felicia Moon, Carole Hinton, Karen Lott, Kaye Cowher
Pro Line Portraits Collectible (1) – Chris Berman
Team NFL (2) – Milton Berle, Isiah Thomas
Checklists (4) 

Autographs/Memorabilia: 1
Proline Profiles Autographs (1) – Roger Staubach (Card No. 2)

Check out these funky miswrapped packs ...

What's Buzz-worthy: A favorite of mine from this era -- and maybe beyond -- are these one-auto-per-box 1992 Pro Line boxes (look for the silver stripe, not jumbo pack boxes that have a gold stripe and guarantee nothing). Why? The ink, but also the creative cardboard you find here that snubs its nose at traditional card sets. The Portraits set is a continuation of the 1991 release in its numbering and feel, while the Profiles take 56 players and tell their stories in nine-card chunks (card pages) at a time. Those are a mix of action, off-field, historic and other oddball photos as well as a painting card with stats for the center pocket of the page. I was able to find a couple of these boxes for what I felt was cheaper than typical price (even the 1991 boxes, which do not guarantee anything are getting pricier than previous junk-wax status) because of the autographs and surprises found here and nowhere else. There are a ton of big and odd finds here including cards for NFL players' wives as well as certified autographs for NFL fans like Muhammad Ali, Milton Berle and Don Mattingly. Ink here was heavily faked in the years after Pro Line's creators closed things up -- sheets without autos and card numbers as well as crimpers have made ink here suspect at times unless you pull them yourself. Other years of Pro Line aren't as creative and don't always pack an autograph in every box and those are reasons why these boxes aren't as easy to find. I'll post another break of one of these here soon -- a normal box -- or in next month's marathon as I landed another Hall of Famer auto there. Not all boxes will deliver as well as this one and that one do, though, as there are a lot of lesser names who signed here but the bigs make it worth a rip. If you can find autos that look good or are professionally graded the prices might be better than you think. As long as the price is right, I'll bust these left and right -- even if the basic cards are super-cheap finds. I like these so much that a few of the key cards you see here will be in graded slabs soon because I think I have some high-grade specimens on my hands. Why? It was one of my favorite brands back in the day -- simple as that -- and I want a few of them in slabs.

Product Grade: A+ (don't @ me)
Box Grade: A+
Fun Grade: A-

What's next? Be back in an hour ...

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