Bit of an improvement with the scanner, card doesn't look crooked and it's cropped well. I'd never heard of the Gold Standard release from Panini until I bought this card, but it's a real nice look and a little bit thicker than your standard card stock. It's not the brick that the ultra premium brands employ, but still a nice sturdy card.
Gerald is also the 2nd "McCoy" in the collection, as I previously featured LeSean McCoy a while back. Yes, in case you're both wondering, they're both real.
Would love to know who, or what got into Antonio's head over the past 18 months. I can't recall a player hitting the skids as fast as he did. Going to from perennial All-Pro with the Steelers and almost a lock for the HOF to being released by two teams, including the Patriots who specialize in rescuing players careers, within weeks.
This guy is a heckuva football player, he ran great routes in Pittsburgh and caught pretty much anything that came his way. I hope he gets whatever help he needs to get back on the football field and resurrect his career, because it would be a shame if his career ends with the crash that it did at the beginning of the 2019 season.
These 2 cards bring the collection up to 31 so far, with football leading the way with 11 cards to date. I have 2 more basketball and one baseball card to come from another Twitter card seller, so the collection is starting to grow nicely. I just need to start finding some more hockey players on the cheap.
Enjoy the hobby!
Robert
"Yes, in case you're both wondering, they're both real." :)
ReplyDeleteI truly hope Brown can bounce back at some point. Bay Area radio covered his train wreck of a season and it got to the point where it was so cringey, I'd have to change the radio station every time they'd talk about him.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I followed the Steelers for better than a decade, and he was probably the most electric player I watched over that time. A couple years ago, it was as if he had the ball every other play. It's a shame what happened to him with the Steelers, but he made his bed...
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