Josh McDaniels Football Card Selling Big....Sort of....

by John Bena on Oct 23, 2009 1:57 PM MDT in Denver Broncos in the News

How big is High School Football in Northeast Ohio? Well, they print trading cards of high school players; that's pretty big. At one time, Broncos Head Coach Josh McDaniels played Quarterback for one of the biggest, most successful teams in the Buckeye State - Canton McKinley. As such, McDaniels had his own card - one that has made an unexpected return in the secondary trade market -

The card, a virtually valueless afterthought for the better part of 15 years, made a rare appearance on the secondary market earlier this month - and sold for $26, four times its current value at the time and a staggering 3,500 percent more than it was worth just nine months ago.

Hailing from the 1995 Ohio High School Big 33 set, McDaniels' first and only football card was worth just 75 cents in January before ascending to $3, and then to $5, as one of the most gifted young coaches in the NFL finalized his meteoric rise from New England assistant to the league's youngest head coach at the time of his hiring in Denver.

All he's done since then is trade away the club's franchise quarterback, engage in a highly publicized spat with franchise receiver Brandon Marshall, turn the perpetually pedestrian Kyle Orton into an MVP candidate and direct the Broncos to a shocking 6-0 start.

As a result, his card's new Beckett value as of Friday morning is $30.

"The fact that this little-known card has appreciated so substantially literally overnight is a tribute to the remarkable job McDaniels has done so far in Denver," says Dan Hitt, Beckett Media Senior Market Analyst. "Most people around the country expected 2009 to be a down year for the Broncos; instead, they're the surprise team of the league with more victories than the rest of the AFC West combined."

McDaniels' so-good so-soon success quickly has turned one of his only legitimate collectibles into a must-have memento with an upwardly mobile price tag. The hardest part for would-be collectors is waiting for copies of the relatively scarce card to surface.

How big is the Big-33 game? The annual All-Star game between players from Ohio and Pennsylvania has had at least 1 player play in every Super Bowl to date. Yeah, it's that big.

Some other notable players in the game - Marvin Harrison, Curtis Martin and Ben Roethlisberger.

Trust me - as a card collector, I will be looking for this card.

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That picture is flipping hilarious. It’s the early ‘90s prep/jock look distilled to a pure, timeless essence. If only it could be bottled! I’m still having trouble getting used to the current-day quarterbacks with hipster haircuts. It’s very disorienting.

by Chibronx on Oct 23, 2009 2:19 PM MDT reply actions

Oh, you mean this:

Verbose in style, dispersion of thought, procrastination in life.

The guy formerly known as ZAPPA

by Tim Lynch on Oct 23, 2009 3:00 PM MDT up reply actions

Zappa

I hope for your sake that you don’t actually own that album…

"It's all over Fat Man" - Tom Jackson to John Madden 1977 AFC Championship Game

by DesertBroncoFan on Oct 23, 2009 5:50 PM MDT up reply actions

Agreed

"I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything." -John Elway

by LACK on Oct 25, 2009 7:38 AM MDT up reply actions

Nice find John

Character may be manifested in the great moments but it is made in the small ones -- Philip Brooks

by KaptainKirk on Oct 23, 2009 2:49 PM MDT reply actions

Look at him...

Hasn’t aged a day. LOL

Don't argue with fools. It's how they reproduce.

by TheMastermind on Oct 23, 2009 3:03 PM MDT reply actions

I picked up a bunch of Orton rookie autos on eBay this summer.

Feel good about the $2 I spent.

by JeffG on Oct 23, 2009 3:53 PM MDT reply actions

This is Sweet

Technically, I was a kicking specialist in high school as I was the kicker on a team that won a Utah 2A state championship. Of course Josh McDaniels>>>>>>>>>the Bradfather and it’s not even that close.

Brad James

by the Bradfather on Oct 23, 2009 4:16 PM MDT reply actions

Kicking Specialist, lol

Should be Kicking the Chargers A** Specialist

Denver rookie head coach Josh McDaniels doesn't have a grasp on how to build a team." - John Clayton, April 23rd, 2009

by diviesti on Oct 23, 2009 4:28 PM MDT reply actions

Whoa..

That mugshot of McD is a spitting image of former Stanford forward and Laker bench warmer Mark Madsen.

Madsen was infamous for his….I guess you’d call…..dance at the Laker championship parade back in 2000. You can YouTube it to see the train wreck. Either way, the resemblance is uncanny!

by pshin8670 on Oct 23, 2009 4:39 PM MDT reply actions 1 recs

The memories...

"I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything." -John Elway

by LACK on Oct 23, 2009 6:56 PM MDT up reply actions

McD looks so awkward in that picture

How much ya wanna bet that, if you had seen him at that game, that you would have thought he’d someday be a Broncs head coach? That’s what I thought

"I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything." -John Elway

by LACK on Oct 23, 2009 6:57 PM MDT reply actions

John I know what you mean about the Big-33 game

Im from Fairborn, Wright Patt Air Force Base. That game is huge and it is always full of future NFL players. I wish I could find that card some where.

live and die blue and orange

by jerry251 on Oct 23, 2009 9:09 PM MDT reply actions