Some Insert Cards From My '92 Wild Card Series 2 Box Break

     Yesterday, I described some of the wild card striped cards found as I opened packs from a sealed 1992 Wild Card Football box.

      As you know, I was hoping to pull some striped versions of Herschel Walker, in either the Field Force, Stat Smashers or Running Wild subsets.

      I didn't have any luck there, but I did get a few of the regular cards in two of the three subsets.  I struck out completely on Running Wild.  Not a single card in the box.

   But here are three examples of Field Force cards.  First, the basic version:

   

Next is the Field Force Silver version:

Note the silver flake on the left side of Montana's card.  Lastly, the Field Force Gold:

Rodney Hampton's card has the gold flake on the side.

Next we have Stat Smashers.  Here's Dan Marino's card:

Finally, we have the Red Hot Rookies subset.  Here's an example:

Robert Porcher had a nice career. He spent it all with the Lions.  He finished with close to 100 sacks and was a three time All Pro.  Very involved in the community as well.

So even though I didn't score any Herschel cards that I needed, the box break was still a fun way to pass the time until my next Walker card finds its way into the Hoard.

1992 Wild Card Series 2 Box Break Here's What Happened.

    Well, I cracked open my box of 1992 Series 2 Wild Card Football cards.   My aim in buying these two boxes (series 1 and 2), was in the hopes of finding a Herschel Walker card that I needed from this set.

     As previously noted, the Wild Card sets contain 6 parallels in both series 1 and 2.  These cards are exactly the same as the base cards, except there are striped "wild cards", which at the time, could be sent in to receive multiples of whatever player you have.

     The striped denominations were: 5 stripe, 10 stripe, 20 stripe, 50 stripe, 100 stripe and 1,000 stripe.   I never really got why anyone would want 1,000 identical cards of the same player, no matter how much you liked him, but whatever.

   Series 2 differed from series 1, in that, there were also insert cards, including, Class Back Attack, Field Force, Red Hot Rookies, Running Wild, and Stat Smashers.

     To add to the confusion, in Field Force, there was also Field Force Silver and Field Force Gold.  There was Running Wild Gold, but not Running Wild Silver.

     The Red Hot Rookies set; Field Force set and Running Wild set also followed the "wild card" striped denomination theme. Meaning you could potentially have in say, the Red Hot Rookies set, 7 cards of the same player. (1 base card and 6 possible striped versions.)

    What I was seeking in Herschel's case, was any of the striped versions in Running Wild or Stat Smashers.  I have the base card of him in each of these insert sets.   I knew it would be a long shot, and it was.  I didn't get any of the cards I needed.  But I didn't pay a lot for the two unopened boxes, and I had fun opening the packs.

    I was able to find Walker's series 2 base card.  Unlike his series 1 card, which showed him with Minnesota, this one features him with the Philadelphia Eagles.

     Here it is:   

I found a few of the higher striped cards as well.   Here's a 20 card of Jim Everett:

A 50 stripe of  Byron Evans:

And a 100 stripe of Charles Davenport:

One neat thing is that two of these cards did not have images uploaded to the Trading Card Data Base, so I was glad to be able to add them there.

I'll reveal some of the insert cards I got tomorrow.