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Due to a decline in donations and an increasing amount of debt, the Big 33 Scholarship Foundation closed it’s doors after sixty years in 2017. The annual football game it once sponsored is now under the supervision of the Pennsylvania Scholastic Football Coaches Association.
The Big 33 Football Classic began in 1957. Its often been referred to as the Super Bowl of High School Football. Some of the best high school players from Pennsylvania have taken on Ohio, Maryland, and Texas. In the early years Pennsylvania would just play itself splitting up between east and west or blue and gray. Between 1957 and 1960 Pennsylvania played against collected talent from around the nation. Lots of famous football stars have played in the Big 33 game – Herb Adderley, Joe Montana, Dan Marino, and Jim Kelly.
Starting in 1991, they began to make team sets. The Pennsylvania set contains (36) black and white cards. Key cards include Ray Zellars, Curtis Martin, and Marvin Harrison. All of these predate their NFL rookies. It’s 1991 Maryland counterpart doesn’t really have any major cards worth talking about. Any Big 33 card can make an interesting addition to your collection. Later on, some sets included autographs.
During my senior year in high school, I received a Big 33 Academic Scholarship. That included a trip to the 2004 Big 33 game in Hershey, PA. A couple of players from that game made it to the NFL – Chad Henne, Brian Hoyer, Darrelle Revis, and Ted Ginn Jr.
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Congrats to Bryce Thompson on being the lucky winner of the Elvis Luciano 2019 Topps High Tek RC Auto. Once Bryce Thompson sends me their mailing address, I will ship this card ASAP. Thanks!
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This contest is for a Elvis Luciano 2019 Topps High Tek RC Auto. Good luck!!!
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Topps Tek made it’s debut to the world in 1998. The various background patterns gave collectors what seemed like an endless amount of cards to collect. Some of these patterns are much more difficult to obtain than others. I’m sure there are collectors still attempting to finish their sets they started over twenty years ago.
I’m so happy that this brand got an overhaul compared to it’s recently revived predecessors. Over the past few years trying to follow which patterns and parallels go with each player got a bit confusing.
What’s changed? A lot. Instead of getting (1) pack with (40) cards and (2) autographs, we now get (3) mini-boxes containing (6) cards and (1) autograph per mini-box. Less cards, but more autographs.
Only (3) patterns highlight the base set. There is a different pattern for rookies, current stars, and retired players. Each have the same parallels. In my opinion, this makes things so much easier.
The 2019 Topps High Tek base set consists of (112) cards. Parallels that you can pull include White (1 per pack), Blue (1 per pack), Green #’ed/150, Purple #’ed/99, Pink #’ed/75, Black #’ed/50, Orange #’ed/25, Red #’ed/10, and Gold #’ed 1/1.
Autographs include High Tek Autographs, CelebraTEK Autographs, Future TEK Autographs, PortraiTEK Autographs, ReflecTEK Autographs, and TEK Buyback Autographs.
Inserts include CelebraTEK, Future TEK, PortraiTEK, and ReflecTEK.
I’m a sucker when it comes to on-card acetate autographs. Not only is the 2019 format easier to follow, but for the same price as previous years you get an additional autograph.
Here is what I pulled:
Autos
Parallels
Base
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Congrats to bbcardz on being the lucky winner of the Yaisel Puig 2019 Topps Heritage High Number Clubhouse Collection Relic. Once bbcardz sends me their mailing address, I will ship this card ASAP. Thanks!
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