CARDBOARD CAPTIONS - Double Take Head Scratcher

It's been quite some time since I've showcased a card that just doesn't seem right. Today that will change with the card I'm about to show you. It's from a fairly commonly known set: 2001-02 ITG BAP Memorabilia. This is from the times when ITG had the rights to use NHL logos etc. on their cards. But it seems as if they had a hard time getting more than one headshot of the same player. Take a look at what I'm talking about.

Okay so far, so good. B-MO in a regular type skating shot in a Canucks jersey. What's weird about this card Michael? Well look at the back...

What? That's not Brendan Morrison??! Am I missing something here?? That is a random dude with a Canucks jersey, not the centre from the former West Coast Express line! 

Am I missing something guys? Was this some sort of weird way ITG was promoting BAP by putting random guys on the back of cards that wanted to "Be A Player"? 

Well this card has always confused me in a huge way, so I decided to look at some other cards from this product to see if they did the same thing. NOPE! They all have the same person on the front and back.

Call me crazy but I think something went really wrong with this one!

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Time to take another look at some more great photography from a couple great sets. I did get a request from one of my bloggers to get some close in looks at some goalie masks from the early 90's. Of course, I wouldn't want to disappoint my readers so without further a due...

Well it's not a huge close up but it does show a trend from the early 90's. Notice how almost everyones masks matched their jerseys AND their pads. For Casey it was North Star green all over. Masks were never super out of the box, but they did have the makings of a solid mask. 

Now we are going to skip ahead a year to the 1992-93 UD set where we can take a quick look at Patrick Roy's old bucket. It's a pretty familiar mask to most hockey fans and it continues on with the same sort of principle I've been talking about. There was no monkey business about mixing colors that weren't on your jersey. Maybe Luongo needs to take a page out of this book.

What the heck are you thinking Lui. You are my favorite player on the Canucks right now but you need to improve your style. There is zero brown on any of the Canucks equipment so why would you use it as your base color?

Anyways back to the cards. The Roy card doesn't just have a neat picture on the back, but the front might just be the best picture in the entire set. Look for yourself...

You don't see that happen much! Great athleticism from Roy, that's top notch!

I call this picture the illusion of photography. It looks like the puck is gonna hit Kasatonov right in th beak, but it doesn't - oooooooooo, ahhhhhhhhh!

This one made me laugh when I saw it. This looks exactly like Pat is doing the Soulja Boy's "Crank That" dance. "Now watch my yoaaaaaaaaaaa (crank that soulja)"

"Hey bud! Guess what? I won the Stanley Cup! HIGH FIVE!!!"

As I brought out in my last Cardboard Captions post, the celebration photography is a lost treasure. This is no exception. We see Danton Cole just scored and from the pile of Kings players behind him, it did not look easy. You deserve to celebrate. Here's some more of Danton's ummmm....hard work? On that note, we will end this Cardboard Captions off. 

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What is one thing that will make you put a 5 cent card in a top loader? Photography. I've taken a few photography courses in school (kinda a waste of time) but I did learn about what makes a photo "great". In my eyes these cards have great photography. The photo on the card can make or break a card, here are some of my picks for the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of 1991-92 Upper Deck Hockey.

Talk about business behind the play. Looks like Hogue-ster can handle himself though. Wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley.

This guy is obviously relieved he scored this goal. He must be happy he scored because he only got 6 goals in 1990-91. Celebration photography should be used more than it is now. 

These horizontal cards were done perfectly. There are tons of cool goalie shots in this set. This one shows the old style way of goal tending. Wamsley caught a bit of air on this glove save. Very impressive photography.

Another horizontal card and another goalie card. This time of the Barrasso variety, great depth of field in this photo. Shows parts of the goalie equipment you don't normally see. Notice how most of the goalies don't have crazy busy design's on there masks. They're simple and classy. Most masks today have random things everywhere, don't get me wrong, some are really well done...BUT...simple is always nice too.

The back of this card makes me cringe. Really nice save by Barrasso here. Glove save and the splits! Top Notch!

Definitely my favorite card of them all. How this happened...I have no clue. How could the play have gone, so that a Philly player is throwing Tanner over his shoulder. Crazy shot by the photographer. The man behind in the stands is disgusted by this though...lol

On that note, we will finish off today's blog. Some pretty great photos for my readers to mull over. Let me know if you'd like to see some more card photo's in the future. If you think their is a way to make this segment better let me know! Look for a few consecutive Goalie Project posts in the near future! 

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