General Forum

If a set of football cards includes cards of players whose photos are of them in their college uniforms, stats and write-ups on the back are of their college careers, and there is no mention of the NFL team who they were drafted to, no NFL logos nor NFL team names on the cards, then shouldn't these be identified as their respective college teams instead of being listed as the NFL teams to whom they eventually were drafted? I have purchased cards listed on checklists here under the NFL teams which they were drafted by but with no mention of an NFL team on any of them, in my eyes these are college cards and listed incorrectly. 

can you list a specific example?

thanks, mark 

As Mark suggested, a specific example would help, but here is the team hierarchy from the FAQ.  You say no NFL team designation or logo, so that gets rid of 1-4.  If there is no specific college team or logo mentioned on the card, that takes us to #9 and #10.  From #9 and #10, if the card is specifically a draft card, the college and pro teams should be used. If not, go with the college team indicated by the uniform.

Cards of players in college uniforms

• 1. Use professional team printed on the front of the card
  2. Use professional team logo printed on the front of the card
  3. Use professional team name printed prominently on back of card (not in "Drafted by" line nor biographical write-up)
  4. Use professional team logo printed on back of card
  5. Use college team printed on the front of the card
  6. Use college team logo printed on the front of the card
  7. Use college team name printed prominently on back of card (not in biographical write-up)
  8. Use college team logo printed on back of card
  9. Use team uniform shown on front of card and professional team (draft cards only)
  10. Use team uniform shown on front of card

Yes, I have a whole stack of cards that fit this. Examples: 

1999 Pacific #423 D'Wayne Bates

1999 Pacific #442 Cade McNown

1999 Pacific #449 Dez White

2001 Topps #TC7 David Terrell (Brian Griese in Broncos uniform, Terrell in Michigan uniform, write up on reverse is about Michigan Wolverines.)

1999 Collectors Edge #HC-11 Cade McNown (Troy Aikman in Cowboys uniform, McNown in UCLA uniform, a Cowboys logo on the reverse and card is listed as Cowboys/Bears.) 

1993 Skybox #367 Curtis Conway

1993 Skybox #393 Carl Simpson

I have more. Unless someone has changed some of these since I've purchased them, they're listed as Chicago Bears cards on the checklists. I just dropped money on eight of the 1999 Pacific and will be adding them to my exclusion box. 

The 1999 Pacific and 2001 Topps cards were changed to college 5 years ago

The Collector's Edge card was updated April 2021

Your first three 1999 Pacific cards are correctly listed with college teams.  They were changed from pro to college 5 years ago.

Looking back through the lists, some of them have been corrected but not all. For example, the 1999 Pacific cards aren't listed under Base Set but are still showing under Copper. And the Dez White card I named is a 2000 and I don't see it as Bears either.  I will have to check some of these again. 

If they were changed that long ago, I don't know how they ended up on my list of needed cards. 

The 1993 Skybox were changed two years ago.