Question about 1988 Topps Foodtball: difference betweeen regular and blue backs?

Anthony · Apr 13, 2013

Hi folks,
I am a baseball collector, so I don't know much about the football side of the hobby. I was in a thrift store today and picked up a binder with a bunch of biggio RCs and some Maddux RCs, and mixed in there were some football and hockey. Nothing too amazing as far as I can tell, but I'm curious about these 1988 Topps football cards. Some of them habe blue backs instead of regular cardboard coloring. Any significance to that?

Thanks in advance,
Anthony

trauty · Apr 13, 2013

I believe all '88 Topps Football cards have blue backs. Do you have scans?

hofmichael · Apr 13, 2013

trauty said:
I believe all '88 Topps Football cards have blue backs. Do you have scans?

Yes they did all have blue backs. Box bottoms were probably cardboard backed. I have an unopened box in my cost I will check for you later if needs be.

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Anthony · Apr 13, 2013

Thanks guys, here are the pics of the Rice card:
View attachment 15833 View attachment 15834

Anthony · Apr 13, 2013

I just thought the blue one was the variation. So the cardboard one is different?

Anthony · Apr 13, 2013

Just for reference, here are the card numbers. I'm not so sure they are box bottoms:
6, 215, 216, 208, 282, 351, 35, 342, 218, 85, 21, 7, 116, 301, 217, 102, 231, 108

magicpapa · Apr 13, 2013

Anthony said:
Just for reference, here are the card numbers. I'm not so sure they are box bottoms:
6, 215, 216, 208, 282, 351, 35, 342, 218, 85, 21, 7, 116, 301, 217, 102, 231, 108

[h=3]Box Bottoms[/h] The box card set has 16 cards that were found on the bottom of regular issue wax pack boxes as a four card panel. The cards feature two players per card of NFL stars who won awards when in college. The cards are lettered A-P. Size: 2.5 × 3.5 in. (individually)

Anthony · Apr 13, 2013

magicpapa said:
Box Bottoms

The box card set has 16 cards that were found on the bottom of regular issue wax pack boxes as a four card panel. The cards feature two players per card of NFL stars who won awards when in college. The cards are lettered A-P. Size: 2.5 × 3.5 in. (individually)

I saw that, too--thanks magic. It's just that #208 , 282, 108, 231, 102, 301, 116, 21, 85, 7, and 6 are not two player cards. They are highlight cards and record breaker cards and even a few just regular base cards.

Anthony · Apr 13, 2013

I'm blind. Just noticed: no blue ink at all on the backs. So, the name/team/position is blank on the backs. Maybe it is a printer error.

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