I bought a fat pack of 25-26 Donruss soccer cards for a weekend rip. My favourite part of this pack is how Gamestop stuck the price sticker right over Messi's ugly little troll face.
I buy packs a lot at Gamestop (which is called EB Games in Canada, although it used to be Gamestop, and before that it was EB Games again, just for fun I guess) because nearly all of the real hobby shops around here only carry hockey packs or horribly overpriced boxes of sports other than hockey. I just want to waste my money on retail junk, rather than wasting TONS of my money on hobby junk.
I'm not familiar with a lot of the subsets or inserts in this product. I'm also less familiar with soccer than with baseball, basketball, or god help me, hockey. But I am MORE familiar with soccer than with football. But I am less familiar with soccer compared to wrestling and boxing, but MORE familiar with it compared to basically any other sport. Soccer ranks anywhere from my third to my fifth or my fifteenth or my first or my most or my least favourite sport depending on the day of the week and my mood. Confused yet? Imagine how I feel. Anyway, my point is that I don't know what these cards are, or who these players are.
I'm familiar with Declan Rice. I also enjoy how ugly these Donruss cards are. Donruss has always had ugly cards no matter who made them.
Well, this one isn't too ugly. I'm not sure what "Zero Gravity" has to do with soccer. Seems more like a theme meant for a basketball set. Even baseball, for like home run hitters. Who is Nico Schlotterbeck? Is that even a real name?
This dude has a Greek name, but plays for Switzerland. One design aspect I like about Donruss is their "Rated Rookie" logo. It's always looked good.
These are Chrome. I think? Maybe Holo. I dunno. I have to look it up. But the card stock is shinier and more premium than the other base cards. Panini doesn't bother writing on their card backs what their cards are, so it's up to your imagination. Also, Panini's card backs fucking suck. Like, they make the worst, most boring, plainest, laziest card backs in the history of sports cards. They rarely even bother with stats, or a photo on the back. Fuck Panini. And while we are at it, fuck Fanatics, too.
I guess this is a pretty good pull for a retail pack. Cristiano Geraldo. This is some sort of parallel of Geraldo. Maybe a Holo Prism? How about a Prism Wave? Maybe a Silver Wave? It's something, anyway. Maybe it's worth money? Again, it's up to your imagination.
This is the stack of commons. You know, I like commons. The more "investors" in sports cards hate them, the more I like them. The more these dorks looking for "hits" and "gem mints" and all that shit, the more I hope they pull nothing but commons for the rest of their lives.
I think the card companies should do reverse hit packs. Like, for $1,000 you have a chance of getting a hit in a pack, but you also have a chance of pulling like ten commons from 91 Donruss. I would love to see a video where some dude drops like $5,000 grand and pulls nothing but a pile of 91 Donruss. Get these people out of the hobby, post haste.
Anyway, those were soccer cards.
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