Poli
12-21-2005, 01:17 PM
http://www.reversepolarity.com/gridiron/images/cards/lawrence_kinkaid.jpg
(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.
(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.