The REAL Jessica Simpson A&G card

This is a scan of the actual Jessica Simpson card from the A&G set.

I think we can all agree that it's quite patriotic.

OK, OK, it's not a real card. It's a 3-minute Photoshop job by me, reusing most of the card in Steve's post.

A Reader's Jessica Simpson Mock Up

Tonight, I received a reader made mock up in my e-mail from Roger. Back in January 2008, in the very early days of this blog, I did a mock up of an Allen & Ginter Jessica Simpson card. This was a time where Jessica Simpson was considered a curse for showing up at games to support her boyfriend. She was labeled a distraction and blamed for losing the season.

While that's debatable if that assumption was fair, I thought it was funny. Some fans take their sports waaaay too seriously sometimes. I do think that she was enough of a distraction that there wasn't enough attention paid to the task at hand. I think that she has unfairly taken the entire blame.

So, here is Roger's take on Jessica Simpson using the Allen & Ginter 2008 logo. I think Roger did a great job! I'm happy that something I did could inspire someone to take the time to do their own take on it.

Is it just me or is Jessica channeling a little bit of Hillary Swank in this photo? Yeah, it's probably just me.

2008 Allen & Ginter - Jessica Simpson Mock Up

Thanks to dayf's inspiration over at Cardboard Junkie, I finally got enough nerve to try my own All & Ginter card for 2008. After several minutes trying to figure out how to alter the card without it looking like something that happens after you drink Viper, I found it was fairly easy. My photoshop skills are a bit more rusty than I figured for things started from scratch.

Everything eventually heads to New York, so I chose my first subject as someone only a New Yorker could love right now. Jessica Simpson. Some say she's responsible for the Giants win. I say the players are responsible. I don't follow football a lot, but if it's on I'll watch it. Baseball is more my game, but I have no problem with other sports. I'll even watch bowling if there's nothing else on, but not golf. That's where I draw the line.

I figure a Jessica Simpson card wouldn't be the end of the world in this year's set. I could certainly think of worse subjects and at least this is somewhat sports related.