I guess if you were really perceptive and thought about why a ‘sneaker’ account was posting about baseball cards you mighta put two and two together..
If you recall...I was sitting in the Dollar Tree parking lot (waiting for my wife to bring back some Jamaican food - FYI Dollar Tree is the only place on the West Coast that sells Golden Crust Patties lol)...I was searching ebay for these completely-new-to-me Topps Project 2020 cards when it all hit me like a ton of bricks: ‘man, why hasn’t anyone made sneaker trading cards?’
So I started doing some research. I found a couple of companies doing it... one company in Germany looks to be doing sneaker cards based around Magic the Gathering style cards, with different ‘values’ for each aspect of a shoe...I tried to get a few in hand, but my order was cancelled due to COVID shipping restrictions. And I found another guy doing custom sneaker cards called in LA...which looked incredible...but...I didn’t see the structure I was looking for.
So I started looking at the traditional card companies and found a few - @panini does these ‘sneaker spotlight’ cards that are definitely a step in the right direction, and some with swatches from actual sneakers are dope, too. Seriously, all of these cards looked really cool - for a sneakerhead - but I felt like the storylines these existing cards were limited to whoever happened to be wearing them at the time.
Why wasn’t someone doing this from more of a…’sneaker love’...perspective? I ran the idea through a trusted colleague and he was like ‘let’s see what you can come up with.’
So I sat down with a pencil and paper and just started sketching some ideas out. Sh*tty ideas. Good ideas. Interesting ideas. Terrible ideas. I tried to focus on things I liked, and tried to ignore the things I didn’t...And then I thought about the economics of it all…maybe this would be possible...
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