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Is Topps Selling Ad Spots in Sets Now?

Read the back of the Allen and Ginter Al Gore/Keith Olbermann card. Doesn't it seem like an advertisement? Is this what it takes for Topps to make money now?

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  • dennis07dennis07 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭
    Seems as if it could be a political statement as well. Either way it's self serving.
    Collecting 1970 Topps baseball
  • TNP777TNP777 Posts: 5,710 ✭✭✭
    guess Topps doesn't bother with the spell-check function, unless "independly" is an acceptable alternative for independently.

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    I also think Olbermann is the one responsible for the back's text (not the spelling mistake, though)
  • SouthsiderSouthsider Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭
    It's like the modern equivalent of tobacco advertising. You obviously can't have ads for Marlboro or Camels on there, but TV stuff is okay. It would have been neat if they had some other ad variations.
  • calaban7calaban7 Posts: 3,016 ✭✭✭
    Things are looking uo for KO. His second week ratings droped 28 % in his second week. 3rd week's rating may drop even more. --- Sonny
    " In a time of universal deceit , telling the truth is a revolutionary act " --- George Orwell
  • ...not even a blurb about Gore inventing the Internet or Olberman's dismal ratings on MSNBC?

    So much for 'speaking the truth'.
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  • ICE9ICE9 Posts: 552 ✭✭✭


    << <i>...not even a blurb about Gore inventing the Internet or Olberman's dismal ratings on MSNBC?

    So much for 'speaking the truth'. >>

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  • ddfamfddfamf Posts: 507 ✭✭
    MSNBC is still around? They haven't gone the way of Air America yet? image
  • IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,504 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>...not even a blurb about Gore inventing the Internet or Olberman's dismal ratings on MSNBC?

    So much for 'speaking the truth'. >>



    Or Olberman's late mother getting hit in the head by an errant throw by Chuckie Knoblauch.......

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