So who knows if he’ll stay retired, but I thought I’d take a quick peek at the impact the announcement has had on his cards on eBay, especially since I picked up a few of his rookie cards a few years ago, quite possibly for this very moment. (Oh, and I do figure that the odds of Beckett doing a similar article, probably much more thorough, is about 99%).

A quick look at recently close auctions show a 1991 Favre Upper Deck Star rookie (the one that you can kind of make out in the header photo above) going for $7.99 in a Buy it Now auction, a 1991 Fleer Ultra going for $6 plus $3 S/H in a BIN auction, another ’91 Upper Deck going for $10 (BIN again), and a 2 card lot of ’91 Upper Deck going for $13 BIN.  There are a ton of BIN auctions that closed out this morning.

Going back to auctions that closed yesterday, a ’91 Upper Deck closed for $3.25+$3 S/H, a ’91 Fleer Ultra for $3.05+$2.95 S/H, a 2005 Topps Throwback 1991 Topps BGS 9.5 that failed to get a bid at $9.95+$3.95 (same card sold BIN for $19.95+$3.95 earlier today), a ’91 Fleer Ultra that didn’t get a bid at $0.99+$2.99 S/H, another with no bids at $0.99+$3, a ’91 Upper Deck for $8.00+$4.60 with no bids, and another one that sold BIN for $3.50+$2.

Looking at live auctions, it’s going crazy:

’91 Upper Deck, $20.00 + $2.50 with 4 hours left
’91 Fleer Ultra, $10.50 + $2.00 with 3 hours left
’91 Upper Deck, $10.50 + $2.50 with 5 hours left
’91 Upper Deck, $15.00 + $4.95 with 1.5 hours left

There’s even an Upper Deck Rookie Debut card (appears to be a 2005, I think, but conveniently there are no years listed in the auction) selling for $10.79 + $3.50 with an hour left (and a seller with a 97% rating, although all from 12 months or older).

My final verdict: Hold on while I get my scanner fired up so I can get my three Favre’s listed.  In fact, I even found a ’91 Upper Deck BGS 9.5 that had a BIN of $25 + $1.50 S/H, which I decided to snap up–hopefully I won’t be late to the gold rush.

Otherwise, I guess I’ll just take some Saturday to drive a couple hours east, and find some sucker Packer fan to take it off my hands. Now, the only question is, can I stomach making Favre a Card of the Week on Friday?