2008 Leaf Limited Football

We received 2008 Leaf Limited Football today. 2007 Leaf Limited was a popular product for us. We still have customers looking to open it. 2007 was packaged with seven cards per pack and basically a one pack box. Donruss changed the configuration this year to be 16 packs per box and 5 cards per packs and a slightly higher price.

The hits per box seem the same (about 4 per box, usually with one or two autographs). Obviously there are a lot more base cards this year and a handful of inserts per box. The base cards are not numbered this year.

The hits this year and very similar to last year. All of the jerseys are numbered to 100 or less and many are patches. Autographed rookies are numbered out of 99 and should be popular again this year.

I think that Donruss could have worked on leaving this as a high end product and worked on making the value better rather than reconfiguring this product and making it similar to a lot of their other products. It will still be a fairly good product, but could have been a great one.

More Singles on Web Site

We have been adding a lot of singles to our online store lately. We now have over 205,000 different cards available. These cards can all be purchased through the web site or viewed in store.

If there is a particular set that you are looking for cards from, please let us know and we will try to add them as soon as possible. The web site lists when sets are updated. For example today, 2006-07 Fleer, SP Authentic and Black Diamond Hockey have been updated.

Gopher Hockey

We're in Madison for the Gopher v. Badger hockey series. It is also Wisconsin's homecoming. Lucky for the Badgers, they pulled out their first Big Ten win versus Illinois. However, they did not gain any ground on the Gophers in the Big Ten race as the Gopher's also won today over Purdue.

Yesterday was a hockey double header, as both the men's and women's teams are in Madison. The lady Gophers took the ice first and were tied at the end of regulation and overtime with the Badgers, which meant it was shoot out time. The Gophers had the only goal of the shootout and earned the extra point in the standings. That evening, the men's teams were also tied after regulation and the overtime, but no shoot out. Seeing how excited the crowd was at the end of the game and into overtime, it would have been the perfect setting for a shoot out. We just need the men's WCHA to follow in the lead of the women's conference.

With some down time today, we checked out two local card shops. The first shop has been in business since 1973. They had a lot of product back to that time. To support our fellow card shop owners, we bought a box of 08-09 Ultra Hockey, the contents of which are on our Box Break page. At the second stop, no boxes of interested, but we did get a good idea for a display for our supply of Becketts.

We're getting read to head back to the Kohl Center for another game tonight. Let's Go Gophers!