I Have A Question About UD Black

So, UD posted a bunch of non mock-ups from black, the first anticipated high end product of the year. As you can see, there is one major problem with these cards of the 2009 rookies.

Yes, they are all STILL in college uniforms. Now, I can imagine that there are a few reasons why this may be the case, and for their sake, I hope its one of them. First, is that these cards could have all been signed at the rookie premiere, which means that pro uniforms could not be possible – something that could have been avoided with a later release date. Second is that in order for the cards to be signed in time, they needed to have the cards out to the rookies as soon as possible. Again, a circumstance that could be fixed with a later release date.

Dont get me wrong, the cards look BEYOND awesome, but the college unis really dont sit anywhere close to right with me. At least the other stuff from the veteran stars looks fucking great enough to make me forget about some of my anger. I will definitely be chasing after a few AD cards from this set, though I will avoid the Harvin cards if its still Florida Gators stuff all the way. I guess college uniform pictures are a trade off at this point in the year for on card sigs, but I cant help but feel that this was a little rushed if it could have been done right later on. We easily could have waited.

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First Look: 2009 Upper Deck Black Fooball

Yesterday I posted that card that UD posted on their facebook profile, saying it was a little lackluster. Today, I take that all back, these new mock ups look 100 times better. Wow.

NOTE: I believe the Lustrous cards should feature some plexiglass elements to them, something I thought was very cool when they did it for Baseball. Other than that, the dual signed swatches were great in basketball, and Im sure they will be great for football too.

Ill let the pics speak for themselves:





UD Black’s First Image Posted On Facebook

Here is the first image we have seen from the brand new UD Black Football. I like the idea of adding film strips to cards, those ones from legendary cuts or whatever were pretty popular in baseball. I know it will be much better with a sig, but I am just not feeling this design. I dont like the tiny player pic or the helmet off, and the weird EKG lines in the back look weird.

2009 Upper Deck Black Football Is Coming…

Per the discussion forum on the UD Football page on facebook, reps from UD have confirmed that UD Black is coming to football.

I have one word to describe my feelings: PUMPED.
Although the price point is VERY high, a la Triple Turds, the cards usually look ridiculous (good ridiculous) and there is not a million parallels of each card. On top of all of this, there are usually minimal diecut spell outs, and the checklist is great. If this is anything like Basketball, there will be guaranteed A list autos, and there will be lots of top level guys in each case outside of that guarantee.
Because of all of these things, the value per card is MUCH higher than any Topps high end crap product, and the value per box goes up after release. Last year, basketball was at around 200 per box, and then that price skyrocketed after the plethora of all the Jordan and LeBron that were coming out of many of the cases.
Hopefully UD will not whiff on this product, I know we will have a few breaks on here for sure.