| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1 | Marilyn Kleinberg | |
| 2 | Anonymous | I love and collect jerseys. I would like the chance to have more and have others feel and love them like I do. Please dont cut up any more. |
| 3 | AJ | Agree with the Miltster! Jerseys are for keeping and not for cutting! |
| 4 | Michael Peelman | I grew up as a young card collector in 96-97 when Upper Deck started the game-worn hockey jersey card thing. It didn't take but a few years for me to feel that the enjoyment of pulling a "game-worn" card to become completely gone after 98-99. The hobby was completely over-saturated at that point. I have since completely quick collecting hockey cards (the "big pulls" no longer seemed unique or big enough to me) and my only sports hobby now is game-worn memorabilia completely detached from the card world ... in it's full form ... where it is when the card companies begin before they slice the history into pieces for hundreds to enjoy. I love my 97-98 UD Wayne Gretzky game-worn jersey card. I know I'll never own a real "Gretzky gamer" (the full jersey). However, the satisfaction I have from being in an exclusive club to touch a piece of fabric worn by the Great One now feels that it is not too exclusive. How many Gretzky memorabilia cards have there been over the years? I don't know where to begin to count them. I would go as far to say that any hockey card collector can't call themselves a true collector unless they have such a card in their collection ... but thousands do. Dozens of jerseys, ones that would be worthy of being on display in any hockey history museum have been destroyed because of it.
If the jersey is in tact and on display to the public, just as many people can enjoy it as if it were cut up and placed on a card. I've sent e-mails to many more people commenting on the jerseys in their collection than I ever have hockey cards. I don't remember ever going out of my way to comment on a person's jersey card when I can think of many people I've sent e-mails just out of admiration of their jerseys. It doesn't have to be in a museum on display for people to enjoy. It doesn't have to be cut up in 1x1 inch pieces for me to own to enjoy it. I would much, much rather see the full thing than grade/barter/trade/auction a 1x1 inch piece of history. I believe anyone would if they weren't tempted to think any differently.
I recently saw a Honus Wagner T-206 baseball card in a museum and was in awe. Why aren't those cut up into miniature pieces to share with everyone? I was in more awe of that one fantastic example of the sports card hobby than I ever would of any Gretzky jersey. I own a sports card containing a piece of one of Gretzky's jerseys because it was a rare collectible, at the time. However, I would never buy a product containing a piece of a Honus Wagner T-206. The jersey thing was a great idea, but it is time to be put to rest for the sake of the value of the product, the enjoyment of collecting and the respect for those that purchased for either of the two previous reasons.
I have game-worn jerseys that have values less than Beckett lists for their sliced up card counterparts. That disgusts me. I initially purchased my game-worn jersey cards in the late 90's because I was a delusional Texan believing I could not own the full thing for even a close multiple of its "limited-produced" card counterpart. However, I am sitting next to 17 game-worn jerseys right now, some given to me as gifts from near strangers, and I don't even know how many game-worn jersey cards I have because I don't hold those dear to me. I do know, and it may surprise you, that the number of game-worn jersey cards I have are less than the number of jerseys I actually own.
I don't know when I will purchase another pack of hockey cards. There is no allure to me in the memorabilia department because I now know better. However, I still collect autograph card sets because those were worth as much to me in my young collecting days as a game-worn card. The same player touched both ... in fact, they actually held the autograph card ... but only the memorabilia card destroyed a previous part of history in the process. I'm turned off of modern sets because of this. Any card collecting I do is on the secondary, or tertiary, market for older cards.
I do not buy cards from dealers or companies for products within anything close than the past seven years. I only buy cards from a market that purchased cards from companies produced seven years ago, or prior. In those seven years I have seen my childhood card dealer put out of business.
I gladly put my name to this online petition. Furthermore, if any card company decides it's a good idea to slice up a T-206 Honus Wagner the way they do hockey memorabilia, the next thing I sign will not be a petition, but a suicide pact. |
| 5 | John Galla | |
| 6 | Anonymous | Stop destroying priceless jerseys! |
| 7 | Anonymous | |
| 8 | Mike Grueber | Destroying the history of the game in this manner should be considered a crime. There is no reason that the card companies can't give away entire jerseys as premiums rather than bits and pieces of them. |
| 9 | Jeff Fennell | Card companies ruin hockey history by cutting up great players game used jerseys. Knock it off!! |
| 10 | Jeremy | LEAVE JERSEYS ALONE! |
| 11 | Chuck Van Devander | Permanently destroying history to make a quick buck is wrong. How would the card company execs feel if we destroyed some of their family heirlooms that were impossible to replace? Stop the madness. |
| 12 | Pekka Puljula | Stop it, now. |
| 13 | Anonymous | |
| 14 | Thomas O'Brien | |
| 15 | Jeff | Sports cards have sucked for 20 years, Thanks Upper Deck. Don't ruin the jersey hobby also. |
| 16 | Matt Megonnell | |
| 17 | Matt Megonnell | |
| 18 | Robert Griffith | No more cutting of game worn jerseys for cards. Especially vintage jerseys!! |
| 19 | Christopher Pyzik | |
| 20 | Anonymous | All Dealers including MeiGray need to stop selling Jerseys to these Clowns just for the sake of Sales. They buy them at 2 for 1 's anyways, so why even bother. The Dealer knows when he or she is selling to a "chop shop" so just quit... MeiGray Population Reports should state which Jerseys are headed to the shredder. Or else what good is the Reports. People will believe a Jersey exists when it actually doesn't. The Population Reports downfall will be due to lack of integrity. This lack of integrity will have been caused by Jerseys existing on Reports but not existing in real Life...
BEAUTY !!! |
| 21 | Scott Silvers | Enough is enough! |
| 22 | Bertrand Callens | Leave the legends in peace, stop cutting jerseys ! |
| 23 | Lou DePasquale | I have been against this since day one! Thank you Milt for finally bringing this to the table. |
| 24 | Anonymous | These card companies are the scum of the earth for destoying the history of the game. Stop now! |
| 25 | Anonymous | These card companies are the scum of the earth for destoying the history of the game. I will never buy from any of these companies that continue to cut up jerseys and equipment. Stop now! |
| 26 | Charles Eckels | Not everything should be sacrificed for the almighty dollar. |
| 27 | mistermorrison | |
| 28 | Steve Hruby | Its time to take action! |
| 29 | Richard | NO MORE CUTTING!!! |
| 30 | English Jim | Say no to shitty spellers |
| 31 | Vicky Gould | stop destroying the heritage of the sport of Hockey please. Vicky Gould |
| 32 | Lee Kirby | |
| 33 | Lee Kirby | |
| 34 | Tiffany Burns | |
| 35 | Bob Philcox | STOP cutting up hockey history!!!!!!!!!!
It is a disgrace |
| 36 | Philip Ferro | |
| 37 | CJ Sharkie | NO TO CUTTING! |
| 38 | Jeff Fennell | Quit destroying hockey history card companies!!! |
| 39 | troy | stop the madness of cutting up jersey's for card's. |
| 40 | Dan Ward | |
| 41 | Shawn Chaulk | it's a crime to the history of the game, cutting up jerseys! |
| 42 | Neil Baron | Save the jerseys! |
| 43 | Marc Juergensohn | I want the card companies to stop cutting up jerseys. Thank you |
| 44 | Piers Stronge | it's terrible to destroy pieces of historical memorabilia |
| 45 | Jay Turcotte | |
| 46 | Joe Blow | Jerseys are sweet!~ |
| 47 | Anonymous | |
| 48 | Anonymous | |
| 49 | Kathi Gillin | |
| 50 | Joe Szymczak | JUST SAY NO |