The Ugliest Coolest Card Ever?


So I collect University of Washington players, and it turns out that UW has produced some pretty good professionals.  Spencer Hawes was a great college player and a decent pro basketball player, but before all of this, he was a McDonald's All American.  And when he played in that game, he wore one of those fantastic mustard yellow, ketchup red, and white McDonald's-colored All American jerseys.  And somehow, Topps thought it would be a good idea to make these jerseys into a card.  Seems like a good concept, really.  A pretty awesome addition once the players hit the pros?

The card has huge McDonald's Logos all over it, a sticker autograph with the golden arches in the background, and a god awful logo slashed right over the patch.  But oh, what a patch.  A huge jumbo multi-break, angled patch that was All-American Game-Used in it.  And a bright and bold autograph!  And even a little mugshot of Spencer that is almost as big as one of McDonald's Logos.  Honestly, the concept was really neat, but the design.  Oh man.  I love the card because of what it is, but I don't really hope anything else like this ever gets produced.  What could have been?

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