Sports Cards and Memories: Box Breaks: 2 Boxes of 2018 FOTL Origins Football

Monday, August 20, 2018

Box Breaks: 2 Boxes of 2018 FOTL Origins Football

Not only a rare Monday break, but a rare Monday AFTERNOON break, as I took a half day off to take care of stuff, and also picked these up as Walgreens was holding them for me. This is my first foray into FOTL football. The exclusive here is the on card auto is a purple parallel numbered to 32 and you get a purple parallel base card numbered to 13. There should also be an auto rookie patch card and a memorabilia card as well. This should be a quick rip as there's only 7 cards per pack. So let's see how I do!

Box 1
Base Cards
Christian McCaffrey
Jared Goff

Orange Parallel
Marvin Jones Jr. (#93/175)

Purple Parallel
Joe Mixon (#3/13)

Jumbo Rookie Jerseys Red Parallel
Mike White (#32/99)

Rookie Auto Jersey Patch Red Parallel
Kalen Ballage (#24/99)

Rookie Auto Purple Parallel
Josh Rosen (#24/32)

Box 2

Base Cards
Le'Veon Bell
Jamal Adams

Blue Parallel
Mitchell Trubisky (#46/99)

Purple Parallel
Kareem Hunt (#1/13)

Rookie Jumbo Jersey Patch Turquoise
Mike White (#3/25)

Rookie Auto Jersey Patch
Kerryon Johnson

Rookie Auto Purple Parallel
Josh Allen (#21/32)

Overall Thoughts; Another SOLID SUCCESSFUL RIP! 3 straight great breaks in a row as it feels good to be in a little bit of a groove again. First of all, I had never ripped Origins before and it's pretty obvious it borrows heavily from Topps Inception, hell, even the names of the product are similar. The cards are nice and actually the blue parallel is my favorite parallel of the bunch. The purple parallels were solid names in 2nd year running backs Joe Mixon and Kareem Hunt. I hit two parallels of Mike White a jersey and patch version. I really like the auto patch cards too. Didn't hit the biggest names, but the patches are great looking. So that leaves the Purple Auto numbered to 32 which is the main hit of the box. And both boxes DELIVERED big time! If you're going to hit autos, might as well be two of the top QB's of the draft in Josh Rosen and Josh Allen! Also love that they are actually in their NFL jerseys with their actual numbers. No 00 jerseys for them! Overall very pleased with yet another awesome break!

Success/Failure: I don't have enough market to gauge actual ROI but I'd say the Allen and Rosen definitely would carry this break to be successful and I think with the secondary cards along with those two, I'd say it would lead to a break that put in over what I spent. Pics of the cards!