It Came From The Oddball Box - part 4: Revenge of the Son of Sticky Saturday

You knew in the oddball junk box there'd be some stickers. You didn't know that they'd be HOCKEY stickers through, didja? That's what I thought!


'78 Topps Hockey Stickers. I remember where I got these things. Waaay back in the day I went to Atlanta Sports Cards (not this one, the original one) and picked up a brick of these stickers. I was hoping to get a Flames sticker but ended up with a huge amount of other team stickers instead. I can't even call it doubles because there were a couple dozen each of some teams. If I am not mistaken, they were inserts inside hockey packs that year. As you can see the stickers are split in half with a team logo on one side and a helmet number, position and hockey picture on the other. Four stickers per card ain't bad at all...


Here is my vote for worst logo evar: The Vancouver Canucks. Blue and green that don't go together at all shaped vaguely like a hockey rink with a negative space hockey stick that I guess kinda sorta makes a C if you have a good imagination*. Hockey sticks are bent, so you could also conceivably argue that it is a V for Vancouver just with one side gone limp. It's still awful. I'd normally make fun of the Vancouver team name as well, but I live in a state who once rooted for a team named the Atlanta Crackers so I'll let it slide.

Here's the coolest sticker of the bunch, a Jason-style goalie mask two years before a movie would make them world famous. I'm almost tempted to stick this on something and spoil a Minnesota North Stars card. If anyone needs some hockey stickers, let me know, I've got a ton. I'll try to get them to you before Christmas, but I make no promises. Also, FleerFan gets first dibs if he needs some, 'cause he is the King of the Stickers and everyone knows that kings get jus primae noctis.

It's good to be da king.

* You know what it kind of reminds me of? Remember the Rocky and Bullwinkle episode with the Pottsylvania Creeper plant that smiled real big when it ate people? Those creepy smiling blue plants? You don't? Well, never mind then....

Sticky Saturday - Special College Edition

Ok, so I've officially sworn off football cards since the most recent time the Falcons ripped out my soul, and this card doesn't technically follow the spirit of the Sticky Saturday posts, but I found this card on eBay recently and it's just too freaking cool.


2008 SAGE Aspire has an insert set where they take the stickers that get put on college players' helmets when they make a good play and stuck them onto a card. The first time I saw one of these it was for some Michigan State player and I was all like, sheesh they'll do anything to sell cards nowadays. Then I saw this card of Marcus Howard with the UGA dawg bone stickers and all of a sudden IT WAS THE GREATEST IDEA EVER! They are actual vinyl stickers that go on helmets too. When I put the card on my scanner bed they stuck to the glass a little bit. You can keep your buckeyes and pawprints and such, but the dawg bones are just perfect. Fun fact: do you know what the black bones you occasionally see on Georgia helmets represent? Answer soon...

Here's the back of the card. A nice photo of Marcus showing off his many stickers on the bench is paired with some fun facts about Ohi- wait, what??


What does that say??? Even Marcus seems confused.


Ohio State‽‽‽ Did someone at SAGE miss that big ol' G on Howard's helmet?


Why do card manufacturers keep screwing up the cards of players I like this year? It boggles the mind. I know SAGE won't be getting any black bones from UGA though. Vince Dooley began the tradition of putting bone stickers on helmets back in 1971. White bones for great plays, and black bones for academic excellence. See those black bones on Howard's helmet? They mean he's a helluva linebacker AND damn smart too! Yeah Marcus!