Canada’s Largest Online Sports Card Store brings Collectors the First Serial-numbered Rookie Cards of the 2006 Football Season

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07/01/2006 - Mississauga, ON (PRWEB) July 1, 2006 -- Headlining what potentially could be the strongest rookie class in years, are college football stars Reggie Bush, Vince Young and Matt Leinart. Licking their lips on the sidelines are football mad sports card collectors, hungry for the Rookie Cards of these future football superstars. The wait is over, as Grizzly Sports Cards (http://www.grizzlysportscards.com), the Largest Canadian Online Sports Card Store announces the launch of 2006 Donruss Elite football, featuring the first fully licensed serial-numbered rookie cards of the 2006 NFL Football campaign.

Due to their rareness and long-term value, collectors always hotly pursue serial numbered rookie cards. Included in 2006 Donruss Elite are 125 Rookie Cards, each numbered to 599. Elite will also contain the first game-used material cards of rookies Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush in the “College Ties” insert set. To create these cards for its 2006 Elite series, Donruss purchased the actual game-worn jerseys of the only two Heisman winners to ever play on the same field together after winning the award.

Another highlight of Donruss Elite is the Throwback Threads subset. These game worn jersey swatch cards feature heralded NFL stars of the past and rare throwback autographed jersey cards. Football’s Upper Class are included in the Elite Series Gold insert set, which are printed on double rainbow film board and serial numbered to 1000. The ultra rare Elite Series Jersey Prime set is made from prime game used/worn jersey swatches serial numbered to 99 or less.

Due to the demand and the company’s subsequent sellout of their first 2006 football set (Prestige), Donruss moved up the release date of Elite football. Along with Elite, collectors can find 2006 Donruss Prestige football at Grizzly Sports Cards, which boasts over 800 different factory sealed wax boxes.

“Much like the past hockey season, 2006 will be the Year of the Rookie for NFL Football Cards,” believes Martin Richards, Grizzly Sports Cards Director of Purchasing. “Smart collectors will try to get their hands on serial numbered rookies, jerseys and autographs because they present great future value potential.”

2006 Donruss Elite contains 20 packs per box and 5 cards per pack.

About Grizzly Sports Cards

Grizzly Sports Cards carries one of the widest selections of factory sealed sports card boxes available on the Internet. Collectors can find rare as well as new boxes of hockey, baseball, basketball, football and golf cards. Along with 2006 Donruss Elite and Prestige Football, Grizzly Sports Cards also carries 2006 Fleer Ultra and Topps Draft Picks as well as factory sealed Football wax boxes dating back to 1986. For more information on Donruss Elite visit: http://www.grizzlysportscards.com/2006_Donruss_Elite_Football.htm.

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FOOTBALL BETTING : Crabtree's base deal: six years, $32 million

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In the wake of the news that the 49ers have signed receiver Michael Crabtree after an extended holdout, there has been not a hint of the dollars to be paid to Crabtree.

And since this means that his agent hasn't leaked the numbers, it means that his agent feels no specific motivation to do so.

Possibly because his agent isn't all that thrilled to have his name on the deal.

So the numbers will come from sources other than Crabtree's agent. And we've gotten our mitts into them.

Per a league source, Crabtree has signed a six-year, $32 million contract. (The total includes guaranteed money, base salaries, and the one-time incentive based on achieving minimum playing time.)

The deal also includes $17 million in guaranteed money.

As reported elsewhere, the deal can void to five years based on performance triggers, wiping out a final year base salary of $4 million. But they won't be easily reached.

The source tells us that, in his first four seasons (including 2009), Crabtree must either qualify for two Pro Bowls, or he must qualify for one Pro Bowl in one year and he must participate in 80 percent of the offensive snaps in a separate year in which the team makes the playoffs.

In other words, if in 2010 he qualifies for the Pro Bowl and the team makes the playoffs and he participates in 80 percent of the snaps, he'll still need to make it to the Pro Bowl or achieve the 80-percent/playoffs in another season.

Since the chances of Crabtree making the Pro Bowl or participating in 80 percent of the offensive snaps this year is roughly zero percent, he'll have three years to get it done.

And it won't be easy. Frankly, he'll be hard pressed to make it to one Pro Bowl in three years with the likes of Larry Fitzgerald, Calvin Johnson, Anquan Boldin, Steve Smith, the other Steve Smith, Hakeem Nicks, DeSean Jackson, Johnny Knox, Percy Harvin, Greg Jennings, Roddy White, T.J. Houshmandzadeh in the same conference for sportsbook betting.

So, by all appearances, it's a six-year deal. And at $17 million in guaranteed money, the per-year guarantee is a tepid $2.83 million per year.

There's another problem with the deal -- it has no mid-tier incentive package. Instead, the additional $8 million that Crabtree can earn (pushing the max value to six years, $40 million) requires the kind of unrealistic, mega-star performances that no rookie is likely to ever achieve.

So while the contract paid to Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji covers five years and pays $22.5 million, he has the ability (if he's a solid player) to make up the difference between his base deal and Crabtree's five-year, $28 million haul via the mid-tier incentive package in Raji's deal.

And unless Crabtree meets the performance thresholds necessary to void the sixth year, he'll be stuck under contract for another year at a base salary of only $4 million.

There's one other area of concern with the deal. Crabtree, per the source, received no option bonus. Instead, he has significant money tied to a fairly new device known as a "discretionary salary advance," which unlike an opition bonus is subject to forfeiture if Crabtree decides in a year or two that he wants to hold out for a better deal. (We're also told that the 49ers have included language that would make certain escalators subject to forfeiture, too.)

Meanwhile, the deal falls well short of the mark for which Crabtree and agent Eugene Parker were aiming -- the five-year, $38.25 million contract paid by the Raiders to receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, the seventh overall pick in the draft.

Even if Crabtree successfully voids the final year, he'll make more than $2 million per year less on average than Heyward-Bey.

Thus, as we explained earlier in the day, this is a deal that Crabtree could have done in July, which would have given him a much better chance of making a contribution to the 49ers during his rookie year.

So while the final outcome can be described as win-win, the broader view suggests that it's really a lose-lose situation.

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