Team collecting issues

[ffgameman]

Over the course of my time as a hobbyist, I've mainly been a player collector - if you want to categorize me in that fashion. However, when it comes to football I team collect the Titans.

There's only one problem. Many team collectors go after any card related to their team - even if the player was only drafted by their team and released/traded right away. I can't do that. For some reason, I don't care about autographs of your Courtney Roby, Chris Davis, Lavelle Hawkins, Chris Brown, or similar players that came and went for the Titans.

I feel like such a limited view of team collecting takes part of the fun away, and also restricts what I can get. I don't have the budget for numerous autographs of Vince Young, Steve McNair, Chris
Johnson, etc. I know that pieces of other Titans such as the ones listed above would be more manageable - but again, the interest just isn't there.

For you guys who can collect anything and everything, how do you keep the interest in these players going?

 

[Ryo1549]

I couldn't.

All too many times I'd pour a bunch of money into a rookie or young player to see them get cut, traded or not in the NFL anymore. The though of hundreds of dollar spent on Rashaun Woods sickened me especially when he went to the chargers. I did make some money back as I sold right away but it still sucked.

So from then on I tried to do just hall of famers and got frustrated with all of the new stuff that went for $300 and stuff like that.

So what I did was try to focus on a few parts of my collection. My goal now is to get 1 auto and patch card from every player that had one in a 49ers uniform. This allows you to get those old players and yet not break the bank trying to buy every 53 color topps parallel. I do pick up other things from time to time but this keeps me from spending money on stuff that won't be worth a crap in 3 months and allows me to expand my collection every year.