Josh McDaniels Rookie Card

Was out cruising tonight, thought I’d stop by one of the local card shops. I normally don’t buy nothin’ in there, I ain’t stupid.

Just looked around, wanted to survey if anything was undervalued. Lo and behold I see this:

That’s right, the rare Josh McDaniels rookie card.

Told the guy it was a card of my cousin from Ohio and I traded him nothing less than a pack of cigarettes for it.

This one’s going in the vault. P.P.’s stash is a thing to behold. I heard that Horvil Tiki collected cards some too. I heard him bemoanin’ the fact he never sold any of his Terrell Davis cards when they were high in value. Seeing as I’m riding high and made out like a bandit this eve, I’m gonna teach some of you people a few things.

First, if you want a card of a certain player, get it through eBay. Forget about trying to buy packs of cards to miraculously come up with the guy you want. Especially signature cards. It’s a sucker’s game. You’re more likely end up with a signature from some guy who got cut in training camp.

I don’t happen to think much of the card dealers in my area. Not one stinkin’ one of them. I don’t care if they know and are reading this either. They’re thieves and robbers. Each of them got a rotten air about them. Don’t look right, don’t smell right. Only guy I respected was a guy up in North Carolina I used to deal with, but that was years ago so the hell with it.

What the lot of these snake oil salesmen do, is they either weigh the card packs, or figure out where the autograph or special card is always placed in the boxes of a certain brand, or feel the packs to find the thicker cards.

You people need to learn I deal in truths.

So they separate the wheat from the chaff and pawn off the reams of garbage to the suckers.

Only way to be sure you ain’t got tainted goods is to buy a sealed box of the damn things. Then you’re back to the problem of paying out the kazoo just to get the signature of some guy out of the sixth round no one’s even heard of. They shouldn’t be allowed to include those signatures in the first place. The dealers got some single cards out sometimes, but any dealer worth his salt knows the value of practically every card. There’s always exceptions to the rule, like the gooned out goober I practically robbed tonight.

So you’re best bet is eBay if you’re looking for a particular player’s card.

I’m sure there’s dealers doing the same thing on eBay of course, selling the good cards they pilfer. But you can look at people’s previous auctions to see if they’re a bona fide card dealer or not and buy from a regular schmoe if you really want to stick it to them.

Learn to sell high too. What’s hot is hot, and what’s not is not baby. Don’t get married to these cards, just like you shouldn’t get married to stocks. That Tiki ought to have sold off a good many of his Davis cards when they won that second Super Bowl. Just keep one or two for yourself. It’s likely never gonna get any higher. I had a Brady rookie and sold it the day before their last Super Bowl for a cool $350 baby. Glad I did. Still got another one, cause I think he’s going into politics when all’s said and done.

You got a good rookie of a guy that’s just run for 1,800 yards and their team is headed to the championship game of the playoffs? Sell.