NFL - Bowman Sterling
6 Mini boxes - 5 cards per pack
'One Auto and 2 Relics per Mini Box'
I received the following:
8 Base cards - no dupes!!
1, 6, 14, 17, 29, 35, 42, 50
Inserts (Lots 'O Inserts!!!)
Refractors
#ed to 299
7 Akwasi Owusu-Ansah
38 Kyle Wilson
48 Jason Worilds
Blue Refractor
#ed to 99
8 Nate Allen
Relics / Game Used
Regular Relics
A. Benn
J. Clausen
M. Gilyard
M. Leinart
R. Mathews
A. McCoy
A. Roberts
Refractor Relics #ed to 299
J. Clausen
R. Gronkowski
R. Mathews
Blue Refractor Relic #ed to 99
CJ Spiller
Dual Relic - Box Topper
Bradford/Gilyard
Autos
B. LaFell
A. Dixon
J. Pierre-Paul
Blue Refractor Auto #ed to 99
R. Gronkowski
Dual Relic / Dual Auto
Brandon LaFell // Mike Williams
Gold Refractor Auto/Relic #ed to 25
Matt Cassel
Printing Plate / Patch 1/1
Chris Cooley
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Bowman Sterling is a premium issue - is beautiful and well done! I'll get my criticism over with early ---- put the numbering of the card on the reverse - not the front of the card..... please.
This year's Bowman Sterling is loaded with rookies ( again, I received no Tebow! - what is up with that?) Player collectors will have lots to chase - regular base, various refractors, printing plates, autos, various refractor autos, relics, various refractor autos, - need I say more?
The base cards are highly reflective - full bleed pictures and printed on very stiff stock. The reverse has Sterling Stats, and personal stats along with the Bowman Reflection. Digital photography has really influenced the action shots available to Topps to choose from for each player and the shots chosen seem to jump off of the card - really good looking photography!
The relic cards are all much thicker than the regular cards and the gold relic auto is even thicker still! I was pleased to pull a printing plate of a relic and Bowman put a patch piece in it! Very good - I have always contended that the low numbered cards should have prime pieces of jersey in them - Thank you!!
Overall grade A+ excellent!!
Go buy several boxes and send all of the Tebow and the Tebow variations to me!!
Duane
