If you’re not familiar with the Super Teams cards from ’93-94 Stadium Club, these formed an insert set where the right redemption card could win not once, not twice, but three different times! It’s a really fun idea for a redemption insert set. Let me explain how it worked, and what this sealed package is that you’re looking at…
The 1993-94 Stadium Club Super Teams insert set consisted of 27 team cards randomly inserted in equal numbers into Series I packs. If you found one of these cards, depending on how that team did in the playoffs, your card collection was about to grow. If the team on the card won their division, it could be redeemed for this eleven-card sealed bag. The Seattle Supersonics came out on top for the Pacific Division, and this is the set that you received. This one is unopened and it’s staying that way. On top, you see a version of the Super Teams card that’s almost identical to the one that would be redeemed. The only difference between the card that you would send in and this card that you’re looking at here, is the “Division Winner” stamped on the front in gold foil. Also, the back of this card says the word “Redeemed” in blue along with the original fine-print rules and regulations. But that’s slightly misleading… This isn’t the exact-same, original card that was mailed-in. It’s a different design and card specifically for this Division Winners redemption set. The other cards in this sealed set parallel a selection of Sonics cards from the base set, but all of them have that “Division Winner” stamp on them. The only other one visible in the unopened state is the back of the #196 Gary Payton parallel. Also in this set are Michael Cage, Sam Perkins, Kendall Gill, Ricky Pierce, Detlef Schrempf, Ervin Johnson and two Shawn Kemp cards (parallels of the High Court and base). The other division winners were the Hawks, Knicks and Rockets, so in addition to this Supersonics, a total of four of these Division Winners sets exist.
The Sonics lost to the Rockets, so their redemption card was only valid for this one prize. But if you happened to have the Knicks or Rockets, the Conference winners that season, you would also get a “Master Photos” set…a collection of 5″x7″ cards for that team. And if you were lucky enough to redeem the Rockets Super Teams card, you also got a parallel of the whole Stadium Club set with a gold-foil 1994 NBA Finals logo on the front.
I can’t think of another situation where a redemption card had the chance of winning three different times depending on how a team did and could possibly lead to a 300-card plus parallel set. I really think this was a neat idea on the part of Stadium Club!
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