This box might look hefty, but it's just a 20-pack retail box. Much of the volume is from a styrofoam insert in the bottom of the box.
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| 1997 Upper Deck football box |
Here is a retail pack, which is conveniently labeled "retail" in the lower left corner. There are 12 cards per pack.
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| 1997 Upper Deck football pack |
THE BIG HITS: Game Jersey relic inserts
Upper Deck jumped on relic cards quickly and had relics in all its products by 1997. The football relics were just a small set of 10 cards. They were tough to pull with an insertion rate of 1:2,500 packs. This box has less than a 1% chance of having a relic card.
THE CONTENTS
This box held no pleasant surprises - just lots of base cards and dime-a-dozen inserts. The base cards mostly fall under three subsets - the standard base cards, game dated cards recalling a special player performance, and star rookies.
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| 139 - Deion Sanders |
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| 191 - Barry Sanders |
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| 35 - Jerry Rice |
I only pulled two different types of inserts from this box. One is the Teammates insert. These are die-cut cards that are made to join together into one wider card when you get two matching cards. The box contained four of these cards. I also pulled a Star Crossed insert.
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| Teammates - TM51 - Steve Young Star Crossed - SC19 - Drew Bledsoe |
This wasn't the most exciting box. The relics in this set are such a long-shot that it's hard to have much hope that you'll get lucky.
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