Long before Miss Congeniality reminded the world that April 25th is the "perfect day" I knew the day was special seeing as it is my birthday.
A birthday means guilt free card purchases so I picked up a couple of 2015 Topps WWE packs. The cardboard gods must have been shining down on me today because I received just about the perfect pack.
First up as base cards go we've got the upcoming WWE Championship match at the Extreme Rules Pay-per-View. Orton won't be able to use the RKO move and Rollins won't be able to get any help from The Authority as it will be a steel cage match. It should be an intriguing 20 minutes.
#70 Seth Rollins
#59 Randy Orton
Then the pack gave me possibly the most interesting female wrestler the WWE has had in quite a while..especially since A.J. Lee has retired.
#56 Paige
I also pulled a couple of Ric Flair inserts and a Santino Marella base card...nice but not exactly perfect...so what the heck was I talking about with this "perfect" stuff?
#68 Santino Marella
Crowd Chants "Woooooo" #8
Crowd Chants "Woooooo" #4
But now let's get to what really made this pack amazing. A 1:187 packs
pull of a George "The Animal" Steele autograph! I've been looking for an
Animal autograph for a long time as he was one of my favorite wrestlers
as a kid but he was also a part of one of my favorite movies Ed Wood.
George played B-movie star Tor Johnson who was a leading actor in Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space. Tor, like George, was a professional wrestler before taking his turn in such classics as Bride of the Monster, The Unearthly, and The Beast of Yucca Flats.
George did a couple of appearances in northern Indiana a few years ago as part of his church work. One of the guys I work with was a fan of his back in the 80s and said you would never know he wrestled during the presentation until he did a bit at the end, just for showmanship. He didn't have the green tongue working.
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