It's Final...Over 500 Cards Make up the 2008 Indoor & Arena Football Collection.

Here we are, the end of the season and we just received the final expected set of team cards for the 2008 season. It looks like there are 14 team sets and a few single production cards to be included in the fourth edition.

Although we set aside our awards announcements for the 2007 year, we will bring it back for the 2008 season. The staff here at BMP are working to put together the seasons awards; toping the list of the seasons best are first year card contributor AIFA Saginaw Stings 9-card set, AFL San Jose Sabercats and Donruss came through with a few great sets with the AFL's Dragons and Desperados.

In addition to this 2008 seasons cards, collectors will also find a few more vintage sets; 1994 Fort Worth Calvary, 2007 Rochester Raiders and more including a few singles from 2003 & 2005.

Collegiate Football Card Collectors Take Notice!

Well....we've done it again. We have manage to take what was already a superb product and enhance it by a million.

As the premier leader in this industry of Indoor & Arena Football trading cards, BMP is continuing to blaze the path for collectors. It was BMP that was the first to put a reliable, accurate and up-to-date product together for collectors to rely on.

It was BMP that was the first to feature the only Indoor & Arena Football college cross-reference of it's kind to collegiate trading card colletors, Allowing collectors to now have the ability to find their favorite college alumnis trading cards for this untapped market.

Now, with the upcoming release of the fourth edition, BMP will blaze another path. We have enhanced the college cross-reference. Collectors will now have the ability to look up their favorite Indoor or Arena players name and followed below their name will list the college and pages that the players cards are listed on. Now although this feature was in the third edition it did not include the players college.

The most important improvement though comes in the form of an alphabetical list of all of the colleges with Indoor & Arena Football player cards. Now if your a person who collects former colligate alumni cards, you can look up your college alphabetically, which will then be followed by a list of players that attended that college who have player cards within the guide.

The swirl of interest that this generated around this is already encouraging. Check our website to see if your favorite college has player cards in the Indoor & Arena Football leagues.

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The Official Indoor & Arena Football Trading Card Guide - Featuring an ArenaBowl Winning QB on the Cover?

WOW!.....The Dragons rolled over the Desperados. The Dragons now head back to Philly for the second time this season and third overall meeting between the two teams. I'll say this again this week.....it's not easy beating a team three times in a season.

Garcia was as solid as ever, goes to show with a little bit of time he's unstoppable. With each touchdown I grew more excited about the idea of The Aaron Garcia being featured on the cover of our fourth edition.

Last Tuesday evening, I spoke with Garcia and firmed up some of the details about the feature cover. The one variable that was still to be determined was the timing of the photo shoot. I mentioned to Aaron that we'd like to get the photos done before he heads back home (California) and he of course follwed my statement with "Well, I hope we don't have to meet up until after the Arenabowl", I agreed and wished him good luck.

Fast forward about 72 hours, as the time ticked away in the final minute of the Dragons 77-65 victory over the Dallas Desperados, I began to think; "Wow, wouldn't that be nice if they went on to the Arenabowl". As a fan of the Dragons I'd be tickled but as an editor of the leading source for Indoor & Arena Football trading cards I'd be as happy as a little pig in mud! Imagine this....again, it's not easy beating a team three times in a season. I'll say this, if the Dragons can win in Philly, I think we have a solid shot at having an Arenabowl winning QB on the cover.

Along with the full color photo of Aaron Garcia on the cover, we will also have a 2-page Q&A. I'm hoping that we have to change a few questions within the next few weeks.

And Aaron, we don't mind you putting us of for a few more weeks...........Go Dragons!!!


Photo courtesy of newyorkdragons.com

Fourth Edition - Quickly approaching

With the regular seasons winding down our editing process steps up. This is the time of the year when many of the teams are finishing up their promotional trading cards. So as the Indoor and Arena Football trading cards begin to pour into our offices; let the editing begin.


Adding the 2008 Cards - Right now we have somewhere around 17 different team issued and single produced card sets for the 2008 season. The editing process is long and tedious; It starts when we receive the cards. Our editing team loads the sets information into the system, complete with a detailed description and data of each card. Next, we analysis the individual cards within the set and determine which card will show the best in the guide. We then scan that card, edit it to black and white then upload the photo with the text.


Changes Made for the Fourth - Each year we make changes to improve the overall quality of the guide and this year is no different. This fourth edition will have several new changes and modification to improve the references aspect of the guide. In the third edition we included the ability to locate each players card by pages, we also added the players colleges for those collectors that are interested in the college players cards.


Well, in this edition, we took it one step further....This fourth edition, collectors will now be able to look up the college by alphabetical order, then follow down the list of players with cards included in the guide from that college.


In the third edition the players names were listed with the first name first, followed by the last name (ex...Mike Smith), the fourth edition will list the last name first, followed by the first name (ex....Smith, Mike), making it much easier on the eyes for looking up the info.


The Cover - This is my most exciting part of the fourth edition. We just met with our photographer that will be shooting the fourth edition cover featuring Aaron Garcia. Now we just wait and see if the Dragons make the playoffs, we'd hate to be the reason the Dragons didn't win their playoff game because Garcia was out doing a photo shoot and not practicing.

Feature Story - We will include a Q&A with the New York Dragons Aaron Garcia. These questions are being complied by our junior editor, Ben Schwartz. Ben has been a helpful addition to our blogs and website graphics. We will work to have Ben master the craft of writing with a few articles for the guide, starting with this fourth edition Q&A with Garcia.