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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Welcome to the Beta Launch of FootballCardChase.com. Today marks the official opening of our beta site.

FootballCardChase is your one stop site for finding football cards on the Internet. Using our meta search engine, you can check the inventory of several online card dealers and auctions, all from one simple search engine.

As we tweak the design and search function over the next several weeks, you may see a few changes and improvements. Of course, any and all suggestions and comments are welcome. Please use the Contact page to send in your thoughts.

FootballCardChase is a part of the SportsCardChase network. For collectors of baseball, football, basketball and hockey cards, SportsCardChase is your one stop source for the finest cards and sports collectibles.

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