Are you an ardent football fan and do you collect football cards? Well, if the answer is yes then you will be happy to know that you might be sitting on a potential goldmine. Like all ardent fans, you must have also started collecting and trading cards as a child. However, today, this hobby has changed into a million dollar industry where you have major companies selling different kinds of football cards. Today, for some, collecting cards has become an investment challenge where you can buy and sell for a fortune. The rarer the football card collection you have, the higher price it can fetch at a sports card auction.

The main question, however, is how do you determine the value a card? Well, the first thing that determines the value of a card is its condition. Cards in impeccable mint condition fetch more than those which have some defects. You can assess the condition of a football card by visiting a nearby shop dealing in sports cards. Note minor details, such as slight corner bends do bring down the value of an apparently mint condition football card.

The next determining factor for the value of a football card is the year of the card and the player depicted on the card. Old vintage cards have a greater value than most cards. However, the players career stats will play an important role in establishing the value of the card. If he had any success as a football player, then you have a potential gold mine with you. Also, if you possess a card that is not easily available, then it is valued higher, given its scarcity in the market.

The Internet can be a great tool and medium to determine the value of your football card. With a few single clicks, it is possible to determine the value of your card. At footballcardchase.com, you can locate your football card by player or year, then see what the card is priced at across multiple sports card dealer websites. It is a great handy tool for football card collectors.

Lastly, Internet auction sites and the pricing guides will help you determine the value of your card. They will give you adequate information about the desirability of the card and the emotional attachment that people have towards that particular card. This will ultimately help determine the value of your card.

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Sports enthusiasts, like you and me, have always wanted to be closer to our players. We have found that in collecting player cards for our favorite football players. If you are, like me, an ardent fan of the game of football, then you must have spent hours looking up player statistics and their records. The best way to keep in touch with your players is by collecting football cards. This is a hobby that is not only very old but also very special to the people who collect. In fact, as I am fond of saying, card collectors are a community by themselves as only one collector will understand another and for football card collectors this is very true.

Football card collecting started as a small hobby in the beginning with enthusiasts buying tobacco products and gum for the free cards. It has now boomed into a big industry, where there are bigger stakeholders and even bigger stakes. What started as idle exchange of cards between students and children has now become a big trading business. In fact, people often start collecting football cards as an investment raking in major money by way of profits of sale. However, this is only for those who look at it as an investment oriented hobby.

The main reason for collecting cards, however, is being close to the players and the game. What better way to show that you are an ardent fan of football then by having your favorite football players cards. An autographed football card or a special edition card leaves us feeling close to the game. Keeping track of the game, its players, their performances, the rookies, everything has become very easy with the card collecting hobby associated with football.

Finally, this hobby is an all the time hobby, resulting in enthusiasts buying cards all year round. It is one of the affordable hobbies a person can have, unless of course you are in it for investment purposes and choose to buy expensive cards. For those who are looking for investment purposes, football card collecting can be a great way to earn money and learn the game of trading cards. Last, but not least, it’s a social activity that helps card collectors meet, celebrate and enjoy football.

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This past Sunday, Donald D. Peck, the retired President of Fleer pass away.

At the helm of Fleer, Mr. Peck challenged Topps and their monopoly on the sports card industry. The challenge went all the way to the Supreme Court in 1982 where Fleer was rejected in their challenge to publish baseball card packs. However, he found a way around the ruling and Fleer flourished providing sports cards to fan collections.

More information about the life of Donald D. Peck.

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Are you starting a football card collection? Are you lost as to how to go about getting the best and most enviable collection of sports cards? Well, you have come to the right place, just read on as I am going to give you tips on how to get a good collection of football cards.

The first step towards collecting football cards is to buy a price guide. Although prices are usually inflacted, that will tell you what cards are out there and the general range of prices. Price of a card is determined by aspects like desirability of player, condition of the card, its availability or scarcity, and its grade or condition.

Desirability of a player is determined by his career, statistics, and, in a game like football, his impact to his team and the game. Quarterbacks are the preferred cards among collectors, with players like Brett Favre and Donovan McNabb ruling the roost. However, other players, like receiver Jerry Rice are popular given his offensive style and stats.

This information needs to be strengthened with some research on the trends of each football card by asking people and monitoring value trends of cards. This would help you get a valuable collection of cards and not be saddled with worthless cards. Before buying cards, it is important to have adequate card storage equipment like albums, storage boxes, or individual holders in plastic or display cases. This will help you keep your valuable cards safely and also let you access them easily.

Starting a football card collection can be done by buying beginners packs available at all sports card stores. Buying low priced cards or cards of college football players is advisable as it does not put a hole in your pocket and can give you the required experience if you plan to start professional football card collection in the near future. Finally, use the Internet. There is a wealth of information that would go a long way in assisting you in your hobby, by informing and keeping you updated on the latest trends and must have football card collection lists.

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Football Card Collecting, as you are aware, is an age old hobby that has kept many game lovers totally connected with all aspects of the sport and with their favorite players. As a sport, Football is perhaps the most loved in the U.S. In fact, the Super Bowl is something akin to an undeclared holiday for many of us.

Popularity of any game is always marked by its players and their records and there is no better way to keep in touch with the players then by collecting football cards. History has it that sports cards were first introduced by tobacco companies who used player cards as their hook to increase sales of their products! Later on, of course, tobacco products were replaced by gum and it was only past the Second World War that companies were set up that actually sold football cards as collectibles.

The first company to actually sell player cards was Bowman, way back in 1948. Topps was the second company to be established in 1951 and they took over Bowman and became the sole ruler of the player cards market till very recently. Companies like Upper Deck, Donruss and Fleer, entered the market much later, some time after the early 1980s. Ever since, there has been a big boom in the business of player cards and football cards, with each company vying with the other to create the cards an avid football card collector should have in their card collection.

If you are new to the football card collecting hobby, then it often becomes a daunting task to decide what to collect and how. Well, there are basically four categories of cards that you can collect, namely, rookie cards, singles, complete sets and unopened sets. A Rookie is the 1st card produced for a player per brand. Each card company or card brand will have their own rookie cards for each player. Today a player can have upwards of 100 Rookie cards! But that was not always the case. Unopened sets is visual treat for football card art collectors. Each football card has an allure of its own that is unmatchable. Singles are just that, single cards. You can use FootballCardChase.com to find singles of football players.

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Once you have entered in the football player name and, optionally, the year of the football card you are searching for, FootballCardChase.com will provide search results for you. Some of the results will have prices and values, others will just display the vintage football card you are looking for.

The left column of the search results page is a list of football card dealers and sports card retailers. The right side of the page is where the search results are displayed.

To see results of old football cards from any particular dealer or retailer, simply click on the name. The football player search that you requested will be retrieved from the dealer’s website. If there are not matching player cards, click on the next dealer. If there is a match, the football card will be shown in the right column. Usually a sports card price or value will be displayed, but not always.

If you find a player card you are interested in, just click on it. You will be taken to the dealer site to purchase the football card or make an inquiry for more information.

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With the launch of FootballCardChase.com, finding vintage football cards is as easy as typing into a search engine. FootballCardChase is a search engine for sports player cards, from the old to the new.

Using the FootballCardChase.com search engine is simple. The first step to finding that rare or modern football card is to know the name of the football player you are searching for. Once you know the name, just type it into the first field, the player field, on FootballCardChase. The sports card search engine accepts first names, last names or the combined first and last name of the football player.

Entering the year of the football player card is optional. To look for a player card from a specific year, just type in the four numbers of the year, such as 1984 or 1969. Do not type in two digits for the year as they will not work. Remember, the year of the football card is optional.

That’s all the information you need to conduct a search for any football card, whether it is rare, vintage, old or new. Just click the search button to see results of football cards from all over the Internet.

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The initial launch of FootballCardChase.com is about to end as we finish our Beta phase. Values and prices are displaying for player card searches. Football Card dealers and online sports card retailers are now being showing up in the search results.

We have successfully tested searching for football cards from the past 50 years or more. And, modern cards are showing up nicely with most coming from Ebay.

As we close our beta, we still have a few outstanding items to fix. However, those are administrative in nature and do not impact your ability to search for football player cards.

Articles have been tested as well. We will begin blog posts and update that center around football card collecting shortly

We are always looking for your suggestions and advise about how to improve the search for football cards online. Please use the contact page to send us your thoughts. Thanks for visiting footballcardchase.com.

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Statistics at FootballCardChase.com are now working in our beta program. Any search for a football player card is now being recorded in our database. This information will be very helpful for people searching for prices, values or any other information about their favorite football cards.

From the stats that are recorded, you can quickly determine which football players are currently hot. Or, which player cards are most actively being sought. Although we do not have purchase information, the information about most recent football players being searched will give you a sense of what is important right now.

In addition to the name of the football player, the football card search will also record the year of the card, if the year is included in the search request.

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After the launch of footballcardchase.com, we forgot to clean up the database. So, anyone checking out the latest stats of football card searches would have seen some interesting results. We had some normal players like Dan Marino, Brett Favre and even Mean Joe Green. But, some odd results as well.

We cleaned the database. So, now searching for old or vintage football cards is easy. When you check out the stats pages, the results are of recent searches for football player cards.

Please continue to use the site and conduct searches for rare football cards while we work out the beta issues.

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