Upper Deck, Donruss Announce First Favre Jets Cards

As a follow up on my last post about Brett Favre and the potential frenzy over his first Jets base cards, it appears collectors won't have to wait too long to see them. Both Upper Deck and Donruss announced Friday exactly which football sets would feature Favre in his new duds for the first time.

Stating that it had been planning for a potential trade, Upper Deck said its first base card of Favre as a Jet would appear in SP Rookie Edition Football, currently scheduled for a November release. But a product coming out much sooner, NFL Icons Football, will have manufactured letter patches in its Immortal Letterman insert set that will spell out "Broadway Brett."

Donruss managed to get a new Favre card into Playoff Absolute Memorabilia Football, on tap for the first week of September. There's a catch though: only retail boxes sold at Target, Wal-Mart and other retailers will have the card (pictured here), since the hobby boxes were already packed out. Replacing Kellen Clemens as card #101, it will be short printed compared to other commons in the set.

You can keep up to date on these and other 2008 football releases that will be taking advantage of Favre-mania by visiting the new release calendar at the link below.

• Sports Cards New Release Calendar

Image courtesy of and copyright Donruss Playoff.