I will never sell games for any reason so do not ask. I don’t trade games for blank media either so please don’t ask. There are guys out there that do trade for blanks and that’s their perrogative. However, it’s not something that I want to do.
I have no affiliation with any professional or collegiate team. I am simply a sports fan and a nostalgist who enjoys watching these games and helping to preserve these old broadcasts.
I do not trade games that were acquired through commercial means. Instead, I have tried to make every effort to list those games as non-tradable along with a link to where they can be purchased through appropriate means.
If you are the copyright holder of any material which I make available on my site and do not wish that the material be made available please let me know. Whether it be original video/audio broadcasts or graphical logos that I display on the site. If you make this request of me please provide valid credentials so I know you truly are the copyright holder.
Trading status - I am currently not doing any trading. Unless you have something from one of my want lists on the right please do not contact me for a trade. To save you and myself the trouble I am will not take the time to even reply.
Every trader has their own pet peeves and rules that they go by and I'm no exception. For the most part I'm not overly picky but there are a few things which are important to me. If you intend to trade with me please read through this list.
- Trading equity - My preference is to trade game-for-game and not disk-for-disk. However, I've had too many trades of late where I've wound up sending 3 to 4 times more disks then I receive. Because of that I will no longer accept trades where I am requested to send more than 2 times the number of disks that I receive.
- Media type - I always use name brand disks and expect name brand in return. I don't insist on a specific brand but some of the ones I've had the most luck with are Maxell, Memorex, TDK, Sony and Verbatim.
Grading - Like most every other trader in the hobby I have a specific set of steps that I go through to determine quality. This is by no means a scientific process and there will be times when I'm off. In those cases I will always do whatever I can to make-up for those situations.
- Player-to-recorder copies - I am not a fan of player-to-recorder copies of games as they tend to degrade video quality. As I run across these I try to make note of them on my site. In my ealier days of grading I did not make note of this so I do have some that have been graded that are not noted. However, the grade that I gave was for the overall quality and I'm confident that if it was a player-to-recorder copy then it was down graded.
- I DO NOT rate anything a 10 because no matter how perfect something looks someone will undoubtedly find something wrong with it. When grading, if I thought it was a 10 then I rated it a 9.5. I typically down grade everything 1/2 point under what I think it actually is to keep from being overly generous on the quality ratings.
- I DO NOT take audio into consideration when grading my games. The grade is basically for video quality only. However, if I notice an audio flaw then I typically make an entry in the comments section.
- In determining the quality of a game, I typically jump to the start of the action and don't take into consideration pre-game and such. If there are issues with the pre-game (tracking, audio, etc...) I usually make note of it. However, it's the game itself that is the determining factor in regards to quality.
- I always use the same equipment to view the games that I'm grading. That way there isn't any discrepency created due to one DVD player being better than another. I always view the games on a Sony 32" tube TV using a high-end Panasonic stand-alone DVD player.
- Of all the games that I have in my collection I've only graded about half of them. If you request a bunch of games that aren't graded I probably won't take the time to check them first, I simply don't have the time. However, if I send you something that turns out to be junk I will certainly replace it.
I'm a fan of most any old sports broadcasts, particularly those that contain teams that I've been a fan of throughout my life. MLB baseball is at the top of my list followed closely by NFL football and NCAA football. I used to thoroughly enjoy NBA and NCAA basketball but that enthusiasm has wound down considerably over the last 15 years.
If you have games that I don't have from any of these teams I would probably be interested in trading for them. Please look through my collection and if you can help with any of these please let me know.
MLB – Baltimore Orioles
NFL – ‘Baltimore’ Colts and Tennessee Titans
NCAA – Tennessee Volunteers
Other – NFL Monday Night Football
Back in late 2001 I was browsing the web and stumbled on a sports trading site. Listed on the site was the complete Super Bowl III along with many other games. Growing up a Colts fan I was excited about the prospect of seeing SB 3 again but was hesitant to believe that it really existed in it’s entirety (with original commercials). I took a chance and worked out something in order to get the game. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the game was complete (less a few plays) and I was immediately hooked. I wound up acquiring a bunch more games from this source and my collecting days began.
Unfortunately my initial foray into the hobby was during the days when guys traded tapes, not dvds. Trading tapes is much more cumbersome, more costly, takes more storage space, lower quality games, and just an overall pain in the butt. I became obsessed trading for most every reasonable football and baseball game I could find. Before long I outgrew my storage area and quickly came to the realization that it was intruding with my family life. By the beginning of 2004 I got rid of everything that I had (equipment included) with the exception of a few Colts and Orioles games. However, I did stay in touch with some of the friends that I made in the hobby and kept abreast of what was going on.
By mid 2004, dvd technology became the medium of choice for the hobby. Games traded are exact duplicates, the costs of blank disks are much cheaper than blank tapes, the cost of shipping dvds is much less than tapes, and the space needed to store dvds is considerably less than vhs tapes. There were initial frustrations while adapting this technology because it was new and guys didn’t know how to use it. It didn’t take long though before standards evolved and dvd trading took off. It was at this time that I allowed myself to dip slowly back into the hobby.
I didn’t want to make the same mistake of allowing the hobby to become an obsession so I kept it to a minimum, only trading for games that were of high interest to me. Eventually I learned how to balance the hobby with the more important priorities in my life and have enjoyed it immensely ever since. I’ve learned to pace myself and take extended breaks to keep from burning out. I don’t allow myself to trade with everyone just for the sake of trading. I’ve gained many friends through this hobby and have only been burned a couple of times. Even those couple of instances wound up working out albeit after a long period of time.
Footnote: This is what I came home to one night after work. Ten boxes full of tapes from 10 different trades. It was at this time that I began to realize that I was obsessed with the hobby.
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