Posts Tagged ‘People’

Pulling With Everyday People: Kansas City Travel Edition

By Andrew Tolentino | Assistant Editor

This weekend, I had the pleasure of taking a trip to Kansas City, Mo. to visit my childhood best friend and long-time collecting comrade Aaron Ott. As seen in my three days of incessant travel tweeting, the Midwestern journey included a stop at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and a stroll through other must-see K.C. sights.

Most importantly though, the great state of Missouri gave me the opportunity to reminisce with my old friend.

Remembering how much fun we had riding to local card shops in the back of his dad’s white Ford Ranger pickup, we dusted off an old binder and traveled to today with a 2010 Donruss Rated Rookies boxed set….and then we stuffed our faces with Arthur Bryant’s Barbeque.

Thanks to a handy laptop camera and Aaron’s very understanding wife, I managed to capture both memories and deliciously prepared meat in this episode of Pulling with Everyday People.

Filed under: Beckett Media, just for fun, NFL, Panini Tagged: 2010 Donruss Rated Rookies, Aaron Ott, Kansas City, Pulling with Everyday People, Pulling with Everyday People Aaron Ott The Beckett Blog

To Celebrate Upper Deck’s 25th Anniversary, the Company Plans to Take Packs to the People!

Andrew Long had a popular web series a few years back called “Packs to the People” where he would share the fun of opening new Upper Deck trading cards with random every day people. As we enter our 25th Anniversary here at Upper Deck, we wanted to bring this excitable character back to share everything [...] Upper Deck Blog

Recent NCAA Sanctions Punish the Wrong People

I love college sports, especially college football, but there are times when the NCAA just drives me nuts. As a USC fan I’m very disappointed that even though the Trojans have admitted wrongdoing and done everything they could to appease the NCAA, they are still being made an example of. And they are not alone. [...] Upper Deck Blog