Here is a nice series 2 box for 1997 Stadium Club.
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| 1997 Stadium Club Series 2 football box |
Each box contains 12 packs, and each pack has 15 cards. Some people call these jumbo packs, but Topps calls them the Home Team Advantage (HTA) packs. Most Stadium Club products can also be found in a retail and hobby format. HTA is like hobby deluxe.
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| 1997 Stadium Club Series 2 football HTA or jumbo pack |
THE BIG HITS: printing plates
Only in HTA packs can printing plates be found in Stadium Club products. The insertion rate on these plates is astonishingly high at 1:69 packs. That's one per six boxes. I wish that all the special cards that I chase on this blog were as easily found.
THE CONTENTS
No plates here, but the base cards are pretty nice. The Stadium Club cards from the late 90s all seem very thick and super glossy. What I don't like is that the base cards are embossed around the player name. The embossing makes the card surface a bit rougher, and the super glossy cards feel like their scratching each other. Sorting through the stack, I feel I'm scratching the hell out of the cards.
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| 46 - Marshall Faulk |
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| 70 - John Elway |
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| 220 - Transactions Rod Woodson |
While I didn't get any plates, I did pull three different types of insert cards. I pulled three of the Never Compromise cards, two Bowman's Best Preview cards, and one One of a Kind card. The One of a Kind set is a full parallel of the base set.
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| Never Compromise - 37 - Darnell Autry Bowman's Best Previews - BBP4 - Tony Gonzalez One of a Kind - 262 - Jeff Herrod |
CONCLUSION
I have to admit that I'm disappointed in not pulling a printing plate. The odds are only 1:6, but that is so good compared to the others boxes I rip on this blog.
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