Todayâs card-pulling ritual from a 2024 Topps Allen & Ginter pack started like any other. Iâm always meticulous about extracting just one card, carefully avoiding any accidental multi-card casualties waiting for their moment in the spotlight another day.
As I began to pull out todayâs card, something felt different. It was stuckâreally stuckâto another card. When I tried to separate them, I realized this wasnât just any ordinary card stack. This was thick. My heart raced. âOH EXCITING!â I thought. âIâve got some kind of special card!â
I dramatically extracted the thick card, my imagination running wild with possibilities of what super-cool collectible I might have discovered.
It was a dude with a goatee, wearing a jean jacket and a checkered scarf with fringe. Below the picture is a swatch of black fabric. I got a relic card of⊠some random dude?
Who is this bloke? I flipped the card over. âRider Strong, Actor & Film Producerâ. What the freak. Who is Rider Strong? Maybe heâll have some sort of interesting background. I looked him up on IMDB.
Nope.
For those as bewildered as I was, Rider Strong is none other than Shawn Hunter from the â90s sitcom âBoy Meets Worldâ (1993-2000). You know, the stereotypical heartthrob from that era.
Image from
Rider Strongâs IMDB pageAnd now, inexplicably, I own a card with a fabric swatch allegedly from his wardrobe. Most likely not from the â90s TV show, but rather something the actor (now 45 years old) pulled from his closet. Or even more likely, a piece of fabric that Topps bought at Joannâs Fabric.
If you are curious about the fabric (I donât know who would be), hereâs a close-up shot.
I cannot possibly imagine a card that I would be LEAST interested in getting than this one. Itâs almost like, âEw, I have a swatch of one of his clothes. No thanks.â The idea of possessing a piece of fabric potentially worn by a 90s TV actor feels more like a comedic punch line than a collectorâs treasure.
Want a piece of 90s nostalgia? Iâll happily mail this card for free to anyone in a plain white envelope. Seriously, I need this out of my house. (The irony isnât lost on me that Iâm now immortalizing this moment on my blog, ensuring these images will persist long after the physical card is gone.)
Any takers?
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