In the early 90s the Action Packed 24Kt gold cards were highly sought after especially the Emmitts. No one could ever seem to come up with many and never an Emmitt. Fast forward to 2022 and a guy came in to our LCS with about 25 24 kt gold cards and they were all Cowboys and mostly Emmitt Smiths! How he came up with so many of them, I have no idea unless he just kept buying them on EBAY.
I should have picked up more of them since the LCS owner owed me a ton of cards but I only picked up the 2 I traded you. He had different Emmitts than just the 2 I traded you including some from the offshoot Action Packed sets. THe problem was the high demand for these cards (as well as Emmitt Smiths' in general) had fallen off to nothing over the decades, so I only traded for the 1991 and 1992 regular issue ones. Unfortunately Emmitt was "yesterday's news" just like all the current hot cards of today will soon become.
I swear the incredible cards that came into our podunk town's LCS was insane. Mantles, Gretzky rookies, early tall boy basketball cards and on and on came into that store in the 2 years my friend owned it before he moved out of the area. And for the first time since 1987 or 88 my small town does not have a card store.