1980-81 Topps Hockey Forum

The scratched ones could be considered "altered" and tagged for replacement.

As far as the McDonald's Football cards, given some more time to think about it, the "tab" is a game card, and not essential or really even part of the player card. That was why Admin allowed those sets to be done that way.

The 1986 McDonalds Football cards are similar to the concept of the 1950s Red Man Tobacco baseball cards from 1952-55. The cards came with 'tabs" on the bottom that could be cut off to claim prizes (like a felt baseball cap). Of course they are more commonly found without the tabs and the scans for the cards here have them without the tabs but the ones with the tabs can still be found. The only mention I see about the tabs seems to be in the "trviia" section for the sets and it mentions the "tabbed" versions are more desirable and thus can be slightly higher in price.

https://www.tcdb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/58053/1953-Red-Man

Although I only havve a handful of these cards (5 or 6 maybe) all but one of my copies have the tabs.

As for the McDonalds football cards I have several (the redskins team and the All-Stars set) with tabs. I think tor the Redskins I have each of the color variants, not 100% sure on that though.

sounds good, thanks for the input

Honestly in my view scratched or unscratched are good to get if you can get them in Topps or OPC

Protective film and protective film removed.

Well aware this is an old thread.

No, they were intended to be scratched. Why would they put a removable, scratch-off film on the cards if they weren't intended by be scratched off? Same with protective film. They even have "Remove" printed on them.

McDonald's is like any other perforated "paneled" cards. These "panels" just consist of one card and one coupon.