Seems rather appropriate for an Alexandre Daigle card, doesn’t it? The guy was drafted to score goals for the Ottawa Senators and yet the shot we get of him here is him searching the bench for… something. And he doesn’t seem to be having any luck finding… whatever the hell it is he’s looking for.
It was almost like some card company executive, sometime in the early-to-mid 1990s was like, “You know, I’m getting sick and tired of all these fancy action photos and players awkwardly posing in front of a blank blue background. We need to jazz these suckers up a little, you know? Come on, everyone, we’re better than this! I want ideas folks, and that’s why you’re here. We’ll make a list right now of things we can put on cards other than action shots and cheesy fake smiles. Let’s see here…
Exec 1: “Guys standing on the bench looking for loose change!”
Boss: “Ok, good…”
Exec 2: “Dudes sitting on a old couch eating pizza?”
Boss: “Excellent! Now THAT’S progressive thinking!”
Exec 3: “Players on the golf course.”
Boss: “Of course! Why didn’t I think of that? Hockey players love golf!”
Exec 4: “What about players grabbing their crotches? Athletes love doin’ that too.”
Boss: “You’re right! Great work, Bill!”
Seriously, folks, these are all ACTUAL CARDS THAT I OWN! I’m not making any of this up.
What else is going on here in Alex’s card? Well, for starters, this being shot in the mid-1990s, there is of course the usual ransom-note-like fonts that were so prominent on everything back then. You know what I mean. Random fonts just thrown in and look like they don’t belong together. And let’s not overlook the blue scratchy-looking thing in the bottom right corner of the card. The mid-1990s absolutely LOVED making everything look gritty. Remember the movie Se7en?
See all the scratches? And if you don’t remember that, perhaps you’ll remember this…
No two letters matching anything else on the card. Sweet Lord.
And look at the back of Alex’s card. Yikes!
This card just SCREAMS mid-1990s. Words, words and more words going in every which direction. And why bother putting in a few capitals letters here and there? Nope, this was the 1990s, so those were just shoved aside to make way for as many lower-case letters as possible.
Wow! Just random words piled on top of other random words: offense, defense, NHL, assists, power play, face off… this card has no idea what it wants to do! And let’s not forget the purple… lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of purple!
Whatever happened to the days of this…
Ah, memories…