When anybody ever asks what my favorite season is, I never hesitate with my answer that has been built through years of sundays on my couch.
“Football season.”
It’s truly the absolute best time of the year and causes me to eschew most of my normal Sunday activities in order to loaf on the couch.
I’m a Chicago Bears fan (now is when you should laugh at me) and I am mentally invested in Caleb Williams as the long-term solution for the Bears at quarterback. Mind you, the best quarterback this franchise has ever had is Jay Cutler. So I’m ready for Williams to be that guy for this franchise for ten years.
Now here is where my real conundrum lies: do I start collecting Williams products?
His ceiling is incredibly high and most expect the number one overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft to have an incredibly successful professional career. One problem, he plays for the Bears.
While I think Williams can break the curse of mediocrity that has plagued Bears quarterbacks for over 100 years, I have some trepidation about collecting a player whose team I’m mentally invested in.
I managed to accumulate a very large Tim Anderson collection while he was with the White Sox and, well, that has gone quite terribly for me.
Anderson fell off the face of the earth as a baseball player in recent years and likely won’t be in the Majors next year unless he somehow proves himself worthy of a spot during Spring Training. Anderson’s fall off has paled in comparison to the White Sox’s, who just churned out one of the worst seasons we’ve ever seen in American professional sports.
That experience has created massive trepidation on my part and I’m not sure I can invest in Caleb Williams cards for my own fandom’s sake.
Very curious how everyone else feels because this has been bothering me all season.
Quick hit:
Blaster box vs fat packs
I’ve been trying to cut down on the amount of retail products I purchase because they’re largely filled with low-ceiling hits that have minimal resale value.
One way I’ve modified my purchases: buy a fat pack of a product instead of the blaster box.
Fat packs rarely cost more than $8.99 and the current market has most blaster boxes starting at $24.99, which is far too much at this point. The fat packs tend to provide a decent return even if you only get one or two decent cards and I love anything that leaves me with fewer useless base cards to deal with.
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