The Cards Have Arrived!

 

Well, here they are, the full Bucs team based on the 2023-2024 season.  Notice that I have two foil cards in the mix, too.  I gave it a shot and got some printed.

Set Complete! Cards Sent to Printer!

 Well, I finished this year's set again!  451 player cards, as well as re-creating every single play card from the game (including Promos), and creating four new offensive plays and four new defensive plays!.  It has been fun, but it isn't over!  Once training camp and preseason games begin, I am going to be looking to create a 1st and Goal set with many first round pics and some of the free agents who move to new teams.

For now, here are the play cards I created:

Status Update: Championship Weekend

 With the AFC and NFC Championship games this weekend, I have been working to do a few things.  The first thing is...I finished my first non-kicker card for the new set.

On my way to another set!

Last year, I started and stopped after creating a few teams in the 2002 style of card.  I even made some foils.

Well, I Did It!

 It took me a while to post here because I didn't want to start it and not have it happen again, but I did it.  I completed a set of NFL Showdown cards.

Another set started, but never finished

 So I tried.

I really tried.  It is amazing that I didn't find time to finish a set with COVID and lockdown.  But lockdown actually was what halted everything.  The reason being is my job shifted to work from home.  Spending all day in one spot, and then trying to be in that same spot putting out a set of NFL Showdown cards was not going to happen.  All motivation to sit back in that same desk chair at that same desk for another couple of hours a night was (hopefully understandably) non-existent.

But all was not for nothing.  I did (basically) complete one division worth of cards.  And I am going to share those cards here and now.  Hopefully, this will help motivate me to try again in 2021.  I actually just cleared all of my old spreadsheets (as new copies, of course) and entered in some names that are cemented into getting a card made (because there OBVIOUSLY has to be a Tom Brady card for the Bucs).  I won't be able to enter stats until the end of the year, but starting now on getting photos for the cards should help in getting the set done later.

It might actually be happening

I have spent almost all of my free time recently working on a set.  Yes, an actual set.  Right now, I have 441 player cards planned.  55 of those cards will be "great" cards with the potential to make them foils (will test with the printer once I get them all made).  As a Bucs fan, I started with them.  I then moved on to a friend's favorite team in the same division, the Saints.  Both of those teams are done.  Yes, done.  With barcodes and numbers and are ready for printing.  I have three more players and then the Panthers will be done as well.  When they are finished, I am going to finish up with the Falcons before moving on to another division.