Buzz Break: 1991 Topps Stadium Club NFL (two packs)

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The packs: 1991 Topps Stadium Club NFL (two)
Where to buy: Will take some looking ... BlowoutCards.com for other Retro Rips

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

Cards per pack: 12 (see all in gallery below)
Cards per lot: 24
Base set completion: 
24 of 500 (5 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards: Deion Sanders, Nate Newton ... and perhaps others at times in past.

Rookie Cards (2) -- Todd Marinovich, Eric Bieniemy

Inserts: None

Autographs/Memorabilia: No chance

What's Buzz-worthy: Throwback pack breaks always sound like a good idea but with big sets -- and releases with no inserts -- like this one mean the realities of the numbers might win more often than not. The slim-pickings rips like this pair of packs says either just buy singles or rip by the box if you like it. (I'd probably just say buy graded singles as that's what I could have done here.) But ... the packs were only $2 and there are a few decent cards to hunt here. ... Ripping this one is all about chasing one of the top Brett Favre Rookie Cards out there -- one that misspells his last name "Farve" and was not corrected. This is a big set and that fact that lowers your odds of finding Favre inside a single pack. Assuming perfect collation, you'd land him in every 42nd pack -- so roughly every other box (36 packs per box). I don't think boxes were shrink-wrapped that first year and the cellophane wrappers are clear enough you can see who's on the top and bottom of packs. I'm not sure if collation of this one was like standard Topps at the time (I didn't buy much of this back then), but it's very possible that cards are always in the same order each time. That's a bummer -- but at least these packs can't be opened and re-sealed easily like wax paper. Good news here? Packs are cheap and there are 48 RCs in the set that aren't Favre and there are some big names from the NFL at the time. This duo would have been a winner back then with a Rookie Card of Todd Marinovich. The rest of it? Not so flashy. If you want to pull a Favre, it's do-able if wax is from a trusted dealer who isn't worried about searching packs. But if you want Favre, you can find graded copies relatively cheap. You also have to open these carefully at times as to not damage the cards as hey can stick together but not to the point where they peel paper off of the next card. You can suffer color loss if you're not careful -- so if you tear into these tear in slowly and carefully. Thankfully, these two packs didn't have that problem otherwise a weak break's worth of cards would have been destined for the garbage can. If you can land a box on the cheap, it's not a bad rip as the photo quality here is really strong for lack then and for the most part the feel of the cards is, too.

Product Grade: B
Lot Grade: C- (would have been an A back then)
Fun Grade: C-

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