Anyone remember the card game "Gridiron"?

[Poli]

(Lawrence Kinkaid, the player displayed on all the Gridiron boxes. A bad mamma jamma.)

It was a football card game created by Upper Deck in 1995 during the CCG peak. It never caught on and was scrubbed after the first year. A couple of things had me thinking of this game again.

1. I found two "boxes" of cards I had in storage back in November. I bought the cards in 1999. Flipping through the cards led to me to look for information on the internet (did anyone still sell them, play it, or was there even a checklist out there).

2. Blitz: The League (or whatever it's called). My roommate bought the game shortly after I found the cards, and the fictional story seemed to fit well with the cards.

I found a few things. CCGworkshop.com has an online version of the game, http://www.ccgworkshop.com/game.jsp?id=GRIDIRON. I haven't played it, but to be honest, I've only played half a game of the card game Gridiron ever.

Through the ccgworkshop site, I found reversepolarity.com which has just about the only thing on the internet about the game there. http://www.reversepolarity.com/gridiron/

My wife, due to the discovery of my cards and my talk about them, recently purchased a large amount of Gridiron cards through Ebay. I picked them up while I was home this weekend, and just finished sorting them into their appropriate stacks and in alphabetical order.


I was wondering if any of you ever heard of this game, and maybe by chance have some of the cards. I'd like to put a whole collection together eventually, but finding the cards appears rather hard. Some cards were only issued in the "booster" packs, and other only in the "starter" decks.

I have no hopes of this ever becoming a valuable collection or that the game ever returns. Let's face it, a CCG of a football game really doesn't have much room for growth after the initial set. It's not like you can come up with a new way to move the football.

Still, I'd like to say I eventually I have the entire set. I'd really like to sit down and play the game someday. Maybe I'll trick DataKing and Raven Hawk into it before the Super Bowl.

[Poli]

I just finished going through the card database at reversepolarity. Turns out I'm missing 81 cards, fewer than I had expected to be missing. It gives me a little hope of completing the collection.

[Poli]

Selfish bump. I did find a site offering to sell a number of the cards I'm needing. 1buck a pop for "rares" and 5 bucks for "chase" cards. Maybe those are the booster cards, I don't know. I know I'm missing a number of the chase cards. Additionally, it looks like there were three promo cards as well. 10 bucks for the promos. Egad.