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NOW in my NINTH Year of collecting Mark Brunell, this is my Mark Brunell Card Collection site! Check out these links: Premium serial numbered cards #1 (1st one printed), #8 (His Jersey #), and Last card in print run (Last one printed)! From these premium serial numbered cards come these specialties: Trifectas and Quads page!

At last count, I think I have over 5,000 unique cards in my collection (including different color variants and premium # cards)! In the collection, I have 200 #1/1 cards (including printing plates)! I have about 95% of the 3,318+ "listed" Cards on Beckett. Look around the site - feel free to contact me at jaderock1@yahoo.com if you have something that I might be interested in.

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Lastest Cardboard Stories: 5/25/2008 - On May 15, 2007, I lost an auction that I thought I had NO reasonable competition: a 2006 Donruss Elite Die Cut Status #8/8 - a DUAL "ebay 1/1" since it's serial number is both "8" - his jersey #! :LOL: That said, finding a DUAL jersey numbered card is fairly TOUGH as most sets don't end in a players jersey #. I placed a snipe bid of $63.10, but someone out sniped me by a $1. I was shocked that I lost, but also a bit surprised that it went for so "high" (for a non auto/jersey).

I immediately got in contact with the buyer. I soon realized that the winner's main focus in the hobby was Elite Status jersey #/jersey # , which he had 250+ at the time!!! Holy smokes!! There was little to no chance of me getting that card from him, right?!?

Eventually he said, "Sure I'll trade it, but I have to get something back in return (ie dual jersey  # cards). Just make sure you don't get it from ebay...I have that covered!" Darn again I thought! "Where else can I find stuff like that WITHOUT ebay?" Regardless, my search began and I quickly found FOUR Status! Three baseball -- Raul Mondesi #43/43, Kevin Olsen #56/56, Carlos Beltran #15/15 and one football Clinton Portis #26/26.

I emailed him, but got no reply...so I continued to search. Many times over the course of summer/fall/winter of 2007, I gave him updates and my latest pickups for him, but most times I didn't get a reply. I was concerned and a bit frustrated. At this point, I had picked up another three Status - Michael Young #10/10, Seneca Wallace (RC) #15/15 and another Clinton Portis #26/26.

I was lucky enough to get two additional Status via the trade boards on Beckett and TCC. On Beckett, I knew of 4 Status and got 1, an Adam Gaines (RC) #93/93 from the1mccjensen. On TCC, I got an Anthony Gonzalez (RC) #11/11 for road_runner 1964 for a really sweet price. That got my total up to nine Status. In Dec2007/Jan 2008, I emailed and called him several times, when I finally got a reply, he said "Sounds good...Contact me in 3 month!" So I waited.

In April, I contacted him again to see if everything was alright and to get this trade/sale done. April was also when I picked up my 10th and final Status, a 2006 Aaron Rodgers #12/12! When we finally spoke again in May, I learnt he had gone through a lot in a very short period and that cards were often the least of his worries, although they brought him joy/happiness. We had a TOUGH time hammering out the logistics of the trade as I wanted him to send 1st and vise versa. Anyway, it was hard for me to send 1st as I didn't want this to end up as a sale ONLY as opposed to a sale AND trade.

In the end the deal was: he got 10 Donruss Elite Status (all jersey #/jersey #) and I got a Mark Brunell Donruss Elite Status #8/8 + paypal. The paypal part was offered by me as: "whatever YOU believe is FAIR in paypal. I will not set a range or a price. If you send me .01 or $1000, I would be just as happy." Eventually, I went with his proposal, where he paid 1st, I sent the 10 Status next and lastly he would send the Brunell.

Here's what he got:

AND Lastly, here's what I got...after a little more than a year!!!

It goes extremely well with these THREE: 2000 Donruss Elite Status #8/8, 2001 Donruss Elite Status #8/8, and 2002 Donruss Elite Aspirations #8/8.

The only #8/8 that I am missing are from 1999 & 2003 Donruss Elite Status -- which has yet to surface to the best of my knowledge!

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3/23/2008 - Recently I went thru a box of inserts and found this 1997 UD3 Marquee Attraction Mark Brunell #MA6 and noticed that it was an odd error/variant (on left) compared to the "normal" version (on right)! Pretty cool...I think!

This card has a CLEAR Football Impression on the Front (bottom Left corner) via the Hologram logo on back

The Normal insert

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1/18/2008 - I paid for the most expensive card in my collection to date: A 2004 Ultimate Collection "Ultimate Signatures Quad Peyton Manning, Donovan McNabb, Byron Leftwich and Mark Brunell #MMLB (#3/5)!!!! The story begins in May 2006 when this card finally appeared on ebay via a seller's ebay store where the card was listed for $899. I immediately inquried about a possible trade/sale combination, but in the end I didn't have any "cut signatures" to trade (which is what he collected). Throughout the remainder of 2006 and well into 2007, I would periodically asked about getting it for a reduced price. Unfortunately for me, the seller always maintained, "This card was in my personal collection. I always put a little stiffer price on that kind of stuff, figuring if I sell it okay, and if it doesn't sell, I still have it in my collection" which I understood.

In early 2007, this #1/5 became available, but I lost out on it at $600 to the "brick man" on ebay (who happened to help me with a #1/1 card I once needed). Knowing that the "brick man" would not be moving that card anytime soon...I had to wait for another opprotunity.

I have never lost faith in obtaining this card, but rather it was just a matter of how it was going to happen. This past week that question was answered! I got an email from a fellow ebayer of mine and they told me they got the #3/5 card from the ebay seller. I was estatic! I paid my friend a 10% commision on top of what they paid for it and the card is now mine. Apparently the seller finally added a best offer option to the listing that I was unaware of! Unfortunately for me, this particular Manning didn't make it to the Superbowl unlike his little brother!!

Ok...enough rambling...here's the card!

New Additions/Arrivals: October 2008

2000 Donruss Red Zoning Commission (#1/14), 2001 Bowman Chrome Gold Refractor (#1/99) and 2002 Fleer Authentix Front Row (#1/150)

2001 Crown Royale Limited Series (#11/25)

September 2008

1993 Classic Rookie In Person Autograph Variants - Abbreviated Black Ink and Full Singature Blue Ink and 1993 Pro Set Rookie Quarterbacks IP Autograph Blue Ink.

2002 Leaf Certified Mirror Red Signatures (#11/50), 2000 Score Numbers Game (#8/259) and mislabeled 1995 Topps Factory Set Booster GOLD Jaguars Logo

2002 Donruss Season Stat Line (#1/84), 2003 Playoff Honors X's (#1/250) and 1997 Pinnacle Inscription Autograph ERROR (#0104/200) - should be out of 2000!

New Additions/Arrivals: August 2008

1998 Upper Deck Super Powers #1/1, 1996 Images Live Front Printing Plate, 1996 NFL Experience Frint Plate and 1996 ScoreBoard Back Plate

2005 Gridiron Gear Team Logo Jaguars Paw (#/25), Jumbo Prime Patch 2 Colors (#/27) and 1998 Topps Gold Label Red Label (#50/50)!

2001 Fleer Genuine Large Proof, 2001 Fleer Ultra Gold Medallion Large Proof, 1993 Pro Set Power Prospect PSA10 and 1993 SP RC GMA GEM MINT10