Tim Tebow Jets Football Cards: Proof that Sports Cards Have Become Totally Irrelevant

Would you really want to spend some of your hard-earned money on a football card with a fake photo of Tim Tebow in a New York Jets jersey?

When I collected sports cards as a child, you could buy cards with real photos of rookies & athletes in their new jerseys. This was before the rise of the Internet, which meant that such cards were actually valuable property. Card companies would produce "updated" card sets in addition to their regular ones, including this 1987 Fleer baseball card set below (with Mark McGwire, Fred McGriff & Greg Maddux rookie cards):

Nowadays, all card companies have to do is digitally photoshop new jerseys and/or hold contrived photo sessions for a quick cash grab. Ugh.