Buzz Break: 1990 Score Series 2 football cards (four packs)

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The lot: 1990 Score Series 2 football cards (four packs)
Where to buy: Check junk bins ... hit BlowoutCards.com for newer football cards

Keep reading for a breakdown and gallery for what was in this one.

Packs per lot: 3
Cards per pack: 16 (plus one Magic Motion Trivia Cards)
Cards in this lot: 64 (plus four Magic Motion Trivia Cards)
Base set completion: 61 of 330 (18 percent)
Duplicates: 3

Notables on base cards – Joe Montana, Randall Cunningham, Steve Largent, Art Monk, Andre Reed, Lawrence Taylor, Reggie White, Bruce Matthews, Sterling Sharpe, Ted Hendricks, Earnest Byner, Doug Flutie

Rookie Cards (21) – Bill Romanowski, Chris Mohr, Michael Brooks, Bruce Collie, Ravin Caldwell, Chet Brooks, Shaun Gayle, Mark Bortz, Tim Manoa, Leonard Griffin, Michael Ball, Keith McCants, Anthony Thompson, Mike Bellamy, Dennis Brown, Terry Wooden, Cortez Kennedy, Percy Snow, Bern Brostek (all RCs and some base in gallery)

Insert/short-prints cards: 4 ... if you consider these cards ... I chucked them. 
Magic Motion Trivia Cards (4)

Autographs/Memorabilia: None.

What's Buzz-worthy: Yep, one more quick and cheap pack break for a #TBT post ... why? Would you want to open a box of this stuff? (That's why it's just some packs this time.) Ultimately, there's just not much here other than some stars in subset cards and I this one just wasn't as exciting as its Pro Set, Fleer and other companions at that time. Heck, at least those had insert cards -- these don't. ... The first Score set in 1989 was one of a few newcomers to the NFL ranks that helped usher in a new feel of football cards and a flood of even more companies on the gridiron -- and this second series of the second release from Score included some interesting touches you can see here in the subsets and rookies in college uniforms ... but it just wasn't as clean as the first one. One thing here ... there are Rookie Cards of players who were veterans but hadn't had cards before ... no RC logos needed, though, as the same definition of today was in play back then. ... I recently grabbed a mystery box of old football packs with some simple, Throwback Thursday-style retro Buzz Breaks of single packs in mind but it turned out to be a box of several packs from about five products in just a couple of years -- my prime NFL years, really, back in the day, but, overall, the box was a fail. Not much going on here -- and the wrappers that were baggies really protected nothing and these show it. Not much more to say here other than newer stuff is better.

Product Grade: B- (probably would grade better back then)
Lot Grade: B- (subsets win here ... not much else did)
Fun Grade: C-

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