Blog: Let the kids play with these cards
I struggled the other day as to whether my son should store his new Victory cards in a box or in plastic sheets in a binder. Well, he’s 9 and sometimes a little messy, so I opted for the binder and sheets. Afterward, though, I thought I got it wrong and should have let him play with his stack and kept the cards loose in a box.
When I grew up with 1981 O-Pee-Chee baseball, I didn’t have any binder sheets. (Of course, I didn’t have a DS either). I think I kept my cards under my bed, or maybe on my (clean) desk or in a shoebox. The point was, they were loose for me to hold in my hands. In the summer time, I’d play with my cards every day, sorting them one day by card number and another day by team. Every new pack was a chance to resort my growing pile of cards.
In 1982, I actually sorted all my cards from my favourite player to least favourite player. I even used a pen on the card face to mark my favourites: 001 was Gary Carter, 002 was Andre Dawson, 044 was Jim Palmer.
Today’s market features numerous options for the sports collector. You have different brands that are released throughout the season and that are priced at different amounts. If you’re an adult with lots of disposable cash, you can spend more than a few hundred bucks on a pack of The Cup.
Victory, on the other hand, is the perfect brand to keep loose in the box. Who cares if the corners get dinged once or twice. Sort them back and forth or throw out the players you don’t like. Take an elastic and wrap it around your cards. Take your cards to school and trade them with your friends. Write something on the card fronts, throw your cards up against a wall, and bike with them in the spokes of your bicycle wheels.
Victory hockey cards should be fun. Let them be a fun reminder that you’re still a kid and that hockey is the coolest game in the world.
So when the season starts in October, make sure you take those cards out of the binder and put them in a (shoe) box for your kids. Give them a couple of new packs every Saturday night and let them play with their cards in between intermissions. Let them enjoy a loose stack of cards in their little hands.
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