Hi everyone! I hope everyone had a great Super Bowl Weekend. If you’re reading this, it means you survived whatever grease-and-sugar fest you organized/were invited to. Congrats! It must have been a pretty good evening. Unless you are an Eagles fan. In that case, you probably felt pretty crappy. And maybe a little bloated from the grease-and-sugar fest. Win or lose, the end of a sports season is a bittersweet time for all players and fans. For fans, it means having hours and hours and hours of time to fill with barbecues and reruns of CSI. For players, it means heading home, sometimes thousands of miles away, to see their family and friends, and knowing that not everyone will be back come training camp. It makes me wonder what is more of a relief: winning the championship after enduring the stress of a full regular season and playoffs, overtime games, media pressure, etc., or just finishing off (finally!) the last game of a very, very long losing season, and knowing that you thankfully don’t have to hit the ice again for another six months. I leave that thought with you, but as you think about it, head on over the articles section and read up on the Seals’ last game of the 1972-73 season, a fourth consecutive win for the Green-and-Gold. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t a championship game, but you probably knew that already.

In celebration of those players and fans who have an entire spring and summer to partake in various amusing activities, I invite you to head down memory lane to the time I analyzed the not-so-classic 1994-95 and 1995-96 Upper Deck Be a Player sets. They are a hoot and a holler. And they are also a huge load of crap, as you newbies to the site will soon find out. Enjoy!

Until next time, stay gold!