(S11) - PT 4 - Card Collecting

[Beaver]

Sorry Ben

[PSanchez55]

Logan Lejune doesn't collect cards. He doesn't have time for that. He is to busy preparing for the draft in a few weeks. He is doing his best to help the Pythons to a DSFL championship. He is collecting tackles by the dozen. He has even collected a few sacks. As he is growing his collection of stats, his team is collecting wins. Now of course, Lejune isn't the best player on his team, not even close. That doesn't stop him from growing his collections. Lejune has been collecting TPE as much as possible. He collects this random series of three letters so he can collect improvements to his skills. Sound random? Well it really is. I mean, right now, Lejune is collecting characters. He is collecting characters to use in making words. He is trying to complete a full set of 200 words. He is almost there, about 50 more words to go. The 200 words will give him his 4th finished PT for his season 11 collection. This PT will earn him those very important three letters. Then he can continue collecting skill, and stats, and wins. If it all works out, he will collect the reward he has been working towards-- a high draft pick in the S12 NSFL draft.

[Leafer]

Austin Roenick hates collecting cards before. He was always disorganized and never did it right. He always lost cards like yugioh or pokemon or playing cards but then later on when he was growing up, he started to love collecting sports cards. Whether any sport like hockey or basketball or baseball because they are very historic. Roenick has collected sports cards like all star players or legendary players and he sold them for a big chunk of money with the value it has. Now that is he a pro athlete from the national simulation football league, he does not need the money because he is already making money from his playing career but he does not stop collecting. Money is not the only thing but also you can showcase it anywhere or even trade them for better ones. Roenick now has probably around 100 or 200 cards from any sport. He still has never put his hands on any legendary athletes like gretzky or bobby orr or ruth or jordan, players like them. He used to play with them but now he uses them for memories and also show off like a jerk. He does have some playing cards and plays with his friends but sports is his most favourite.

[AW13]

Through all of the travels, even when it is often limited, the best thing to collect is souvenir magnets. My wife and I have collected magnets at different places we have gone to from different places in the USA and world. We have magnets from London, different baseball stadiums, Disneyland, Las Vegas and a few others all around Utah. Why are magnets the best? They are cheap and they give something on the fridge to look at and remember all the places you have been. They can usually be found at a bunch of different shops or stands in different locations and usually aren't any more than $5-$7 for the more expensive ones, even in places that usually charge an arm and a leg for stuff such as Disney. While there are more exciting things that are possibly collected, magnets are one of the more collectible things you find in a lot of souvenir shops. We debated pins or shot glasses but storage wise, magnets are the best as you can throw a ton of them on your fridge and leave them be. When I was younger, I collected cards of different types. I collected Pokemon, Yugioh, baseball, and basketball cards but I now collect magnets and that is pretty cool.

[TommySalami]

SHL PT

[Jiggly_333]

Many athletes with collections usually collect things that have to do with sports. As I read through I see a lot of Tegan's NSFL colleagues who grew up in a world filled with sports. While, of course Tegan had a childhood that was filled with sports, she was never really into collecting cards or any memorabilia associated with sports. Instead, when she was a bit older she found a different passion in collecting.

From a young age, Tegan can remember her mother's vinyl record collection and would always ask to listen to it. From Bob Dylan, to The Beatles, to Eric Clapton, and even to John Coltrane, young Tegan was always fascinated by the sound of vinyl. In Freshman year of high school, the same year she first joined the football team, her mother bought her her first album: "Glean" by They Might Be Giants. Since then, Tegan's worked on growing her record collection at every chance, taking time during road trips to look for record stores around the area. She now has a fairly well sized collection at her own home and is looking forward to expanding it even further.

Probably her favorite record in her collection right now is the limited edition pink vinyl of St. Vincent's recent "MASSEDUCTION".

[speculadora]

Jaylon Broxton has a bit of a weird hobby, particularly for an athlete. He still, to this day, collects Pokemon cards. He developed the hobby at a young age when he started getting booster packs and even boxes as birthday and Christmas gifts. Although most people from his generation view Pokemon with more of a sense of nostalgia these days, Broxton steadfastly collects the cards, buying packs upon packs of cards with each new set they release. His persistence stems from a childhood friend who convinced Broxton that the cards would be worth thousands some day in the future. Although that never materialized, the practice became a hobby for Broxton. The wealth he's accumulated as a professional football player has made collecting easier and the amount of packs he has bought is hard to imagine, but he also works to be responsible with his money, limiting his collecting capacity ever so slightly. Even he is still missing a few cards, hesitant to spend the four figure asking price for a Charizard from the original set. The most exciting part of Broxton's collection is his set of Pikachu cards. Pikachu became the face of Pokemon because of the anime, and as such there are over 70 different versions that exist. Broxton has nearly every version ever printed, including the Pikachu Illustrator card, valued at over $100,000 by serious collectors as only a handful exist in circulation.

SHL: Paq

[Evok]

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[JKortesi81]

SHL PT

[MrStennett]

While Thorian Skarsgard has never been much of a card collector, there is one thing that he just can't have enough of: hats. His love of hats goes back to when he was a child. Ever since he was small, you would never catch him outside of his home without some kind of hat on his head. He has all kinds of hats; not just baseball caps. A handmade full-dress top hat, an authentic safari pith helmet, a fur-lined Ushanka hat from the Ukraine. Skarsgard is an almost fervent collector, having to purchase anything unique or new that he doesn't already have. One of the oddities of his collection, is a rather new part of his hobby. He very recently started acquiring baseball caps from various minor league baseball teams. Upon arriving in America, he found the fun and often ridiculous nature of minor league team mascots appealing. He owns many, many of these hats and has shown no signs of slowing down with his collecting. His most recent purchase is the batting practice hat for the Class A Hickory Crawdads, an affiliate of the Texas Rangers. His collection has grown to such enormous proportions, that he even had to have a custom made closet installed in his home in which to store all of the hats he has.

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