2007 Topps Football

The parade through complete sets purchased with Christmas money continues.  Next up is the 2007 Topps football set.  This one came in the factory box, but had been opened.  All the cards were there.  It's got the same design as the baseball and basketball sets that year.  The silver text doesn't scan well, so I apologize.

Let's get the best super glue card of the set out of the way first.  How about the guy on the sidelines with the football glued to his face?  By his dress he appears to be an official, and I'm sure that had to affect his ability to see the game and make good calls.  Or possibly the ball is glued to the ear of the security guy, but it's hard to tell for sure.  Meanwhile on the field, Lendale White mimes catching a football.

Cards in the set like Mike Williams and Warrick Dunn look really sharp because they have black in their teams' uniform color scheme.  Williams looks especially sharp in the silver and black which matches the silver text and black border perfectly.  I wish the scan reflected that better.

My first experience with black bordered cards was 1986 Topps baseball.  I thought then that black borders showed corner dings a lot more, so I didn't like them.  I had seen some 1971 Topps baseball and those older cards proved my point.  But now that cards are made out of an indestructible plastic/cardboard hybrid, that's no longer an issue.  Ben Roethlisberger and Peyton Manning were the most recent Super Bowl winning quarterbacks that year.  That's a great photo of Big Ben.

Any of you who are experienced ebayers know that you need to be regular and patient.  When you are, sometimes things slip through the cracks, and there you are waiting for the catch.  That's what happened with this set.  I picked it up for $1.75.  Here are two of football's best running backs in the late 2000's, Adrian Peterson and LaDainian Tomlinson.