Sports Cards Ate My Brain

Memorial Day weekend revolves around auto racing for me.  Sunday is the greatest single day of the year with Monaco, the Indy 500 and the Nascar race rounding out the weekend.  Here are some of my favorite racing cards that represent all of these series. 1992 Grid Formula One - A rookie card of the most successful F1 driver ever. 2008 Press Pass insert - Montoya was successful in all 3 series. 2006 Topps A&G mini - The only woman to win a race in F1, Indy Racing or NASCAR.

As a Falcon's Fan it has taken me awhile to write this post but the Super Bowl loss is mitigated by the fact that Tom Brady is my favorite player. My second favorite player is the other QB from that game that, unfortunately, did not execute in the 4th quarter.  All year I have known that the Falcons had to get to 30 points in a game to win and I was excited when they were in FG range with a change to get to 31 points.  As is well documented, that all went south. My favorite Matt Ryan card is from one of those hobby store giveaway sets: This is from 2008 Topps and is number 1 in the set. For those Atlanta haters out there, stop it (Michael Wilbon).  Everyone says we don't support our teams like other cities.  Half of our citizens grew up in other cities and they came to town with favorite teams, so get over it.  I'm sorry so many people chose to leave other cities to live somewhere better.

To recap:  These are the cards I would take with me if I could take ten 9-card pages with me to Mars. I decided that each part of my collection cannot have more than one page.  The cards must fit into a regulation page as far as height and width but I am taking liberties with how thick some of the cards are. And now for some good old American football: 1911 T51 Murad College Series Michigan football. 'Nuff said. 1970 Kellogg's #13 This card represents three things in my sheet.  Detroit Lions, Kellogg's cards and Blazing Saddles.  I had forgotten that there was such thing as Kellogg's football cards until I found this at a show. 1993 Upper Deck #481 As far as I know, Robert is the only player from my high school ever featured on a card.  Go Angoras! 1999 TK Legacy TK Legacy produced a wonderful set of Michigan Wolverine stars.  This is my only autograph from the set.  If anyone out there has some regular cards or autos...