2014 Bowman Football
25 Cards per pack - 10 packs
4 Autos and 1 Relic per box
I received these:
70 unique base veteran cards
80 unique base rookie/prospect cards
The base cards of Bowman Football - both vet and rookie - are pretty uninteresting and several of the packs had bent cards (the wrappers were just a bit large and the several of the cards on the top and bottom of the pack were damaged....) Each set is 110 cards and the difference in the card is the design on the front and the rookie cards have the RC designation logo. The numbering is the same on both sets. (Baseball has BP##)
Cards are printed on bright white stock with a glossy front and matte finish on the reverse. Boxes retail in hobby shops for about $130.
Inserts/Parallels
2 Ice parallels
Kendall Wright
Andre Johnson
Black border parallels
36 rookie and 20 vets
Black Refractor Parallels
8 Vets // 7 Rookies
Colored / Numbered Parallels
1 Blue - #ed to 499 - A. Richardson
2 Gold - #ed to 399 - K. Martin and R. Shazier
1 Orange - #ed to 299 - B. Renner
Blue #ed to 99 - L. Kuechly
Green #ed to 99 - M. Evans and C. Richardson
Minis
10 unique minis
Die Cut
3 - C. Newton, L. McCoy, R. Gore
VERY cool looking cards!!
RELIC
Andy Dalton
Autos
L. Joyner, S. Morris, T. Mason, R. Boyd
Autos - all chrome refractors and all on card autos - WELL DONE!! They look fantastic and each one of these guys can write- kudos to their parents and teachers!!!
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Bowman football is a good issue - not great, but very good - especially the autos and the die cuts. I am not a football collector (I have to draw the line somewhere and I only have 2 rooms to devote to cards!) but the die cuts have caused me to actually bid on a few on the 'bay (did not win, but I did bid!)
I also like the numbered parallels - the jury is still out for me on the black and black refractors. Refractors should be labeled as such and probably #ed to 2014? Black bordered cards will be hard to have a 10 gem mint grade (black is always the hardest for a 10)
The Ice parallels also look very good - in fact they look 10x better than the base cards. Ice might be a pretty interesting set to build - and could prove to be a mighty hill to climb - only 2 in this box.
Overall grade B++ very uninteresting photos and design this year....
Autos and Die Cuts A++ - very well done!
Go buy several boxes and put the Ice set together!!
Duane
