52 Nike Poster Cards New Info on 290999 3D Rice & Ronnie

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Now that all the initial Nike Poster card information is archived in these blogs I will be posting NEW information as it becomes available.

The news today is that Bruce "ImaPaqRat" Fisher who is probably the #1 information source when it comes to Nike posters has purchased the 3D Rice and Ronnie poster recently up for sale on EBay. He had never seen one before so he questioned the sellers and found out that they had gotten it from their son who worked at NIKE at the time. He told them that a small batch of the posters were made but never release for commercial sale because Rice-a-Roni sued them. 

Since we have heard similar stories  before from others in Nike, about other posters, and Bruce had never seen this specific poster before, this has credibility to us. 

Thus we are officially declaring that there is no 290999 Nike poster card and this number will remain blank. 

I am going back and removing this number and it will remain as a unused number in the sequence. 

Again, for historic purposes, the poster is shown below. 

                                 THERE IS NO EQUIVALENT POSTER CARD !

47. Poster Cards Issued with Numbers Higher than 291015

Through the years there were a few cards that were issued with numbers higher than 291015. These appear to have been issued in 1988  through 1989. One could guess that they had a numerical error in their system and instead of fixing it and changing a lot of numbers they simply chose a non sequence number far out of the range they were currently in.

291543  Strange Thoughts   ( C. Strange)   1988

Appears in the 1988 poster catalog as a type 2 poster card

https://www.theculturepdx.com/product/1988-strange-thoughts-curtis-strange-golf-poster/404

291544   Eric Davis   1988  NO KNOWN NPC for this poster

Have not seen this poster card  but here is the poster which is five feet long. The poster was issued by Nike in 1988 after Davis put up 37 HR, 100 RBI and and 80 stolen bases in 1987. Set up as a nine-frame photographic sequence, the poster depicts Davis demonstrating the perfect popup slide, going into third base at old Riverfront Stadium. 

291621 Hit & Run   (B. Jackson)   1988

Not only are these posters out of numerical sequence, these two Bo Jackson posters have  the same Nike 6 digit numbers. The backs are identical. They are type 2 and appear in he 1988 poster catalog. NOTE (see below) as of Oct 2021 we have also identified them as type 4 poster cards (blog # 72)

10/2021 NOTE  see blog #72 where we identify type 4 variations of these two poster cards !

291884   For Women Only   1988

Women's Basketball issued as a Type 2 poster card. It first appears in the 1988 poster  catalog. 

292335 Wings  (Jordan)   1989

The iconic WINGS poster was reissued several times through the years. It was first issued in 1989 per the label on the poster that sits in the Smithsonian.  The only poster card we have seen for it is the type 3 card shown below. 

50. Numerical NIKE poster card checklist

This will be the last blog archiving initial information. Future blogs will be less prevalent and dealing with new information that comes to light.

 For the following summary checklist we are only including poster cards that are known and those listed in Nike poster catalogs and order sheets that should exist. If we have not seen the poster card or the poster, the poster card is not listed here. .



SO..... these ae all of the known NPC that have been verified . As we find any new NPC they  will be added to this list

                                           ** As of 2/11/2021 that is 222 verified NPC**

                                        859 - 866 were recently confirmed as 1986 (see blog # 70)

*** As of 5/10/2022 we have filled in most of the missing Nike product numbers and corrected several date errors...Go to blog 86 for the up to date accurate checklist***

Nike Number	POSTER TITLE	TYPE	Year of Poster card Issue
290xxx
201	Supreme court	1	1982/83
202a/b	Iceman / George Gervin	1	1982/83
204	No Finish Line (lake)	1	1982/83
206a/b	Dr Dunkenstein	1	1982/83
208	Goin' Home	1	1982/83
211	Chocolate Thunder	1	1982/83
212	Urban Runner	1	1982/83
213	Runner in the Clouds	1	1982/83
214	Sugar	1	1982/83
217	Truck	1	1982/83
218a/b	MVP & Cy	1	1982/83
219a/b	Moses	1	1982/83
220	Jam session	1	1982/83
221a/b	the  Williams	1	1982/83
222a/b	McEnroe	1	1982/83
223a/b	Fingers & Sutter	1	1982/83
224a/b	Penguin power	1	1982/83
225a/b	SILK	1	1982/83
226	Field Generals	1	1982/83
227	Speedsters	1	1982/83
228	Runner on the beach	1	1982/83
229	Mychal	1	1982/83
230	Board room	1	1982/83
231	K-Lord	1	1982/83
232	Zungul	1	1982/83
233	Stormin Norman / Norm Nixon	1	1982/83
234	Sect of Defense / Bobby Jones	1	1982/83
235	Air force 1	1	1982/83
237	Power Alley / Dale Murphy	1	1982/83
238	Tiger Catcher Lance Parrish	1	1982/83
239	The Dodger Kid / Steve Sax	1	1982/83
240	Steeler pounder / Franco Harris	1	1982/83
241	Atlanta arsenal / Jackson, Bart, Jenkins	1	1982/83
242	TX Thunder / Jones and Martin	1	1982/83
243	Sir Sid - Sdney montcrief	1	1982/83
244	Ruland - Jeff Ruland	1	1982/83
245	Blue Thunder - Pedro Guerrero	1	1982/83
246	No pasing -	1	1984/85
247	Lofton - James Loftin	1	1985
248 (1)	Battle of Atlanta	1	1985
248 (3)	Battle of Atlanta	3	1991/92
249	Cornerstone - Ryne Sandberg	1	1985
811	home town (Mark Jackson)	4	1988
812	no finish line basketball	4	1988
813	no finish line running (Benoit-Samuelson)	4	1988
814	no finish line  fitness,	4	1988
815	no finish line tennis	4	1988
816	no finish line hiking	4	1988
817	Sweet Music (Frank Viola)	4	1988
820 (2)	Andre Agassi  II	2	1989
820 (3) 821	Andre Agassi II National Defense (David Robinson)	3 2	1991/92 1989
822	Flight Brothers (Nance & Harper)	2	1989
823	You Don’t Know Diddley (Bo Diddley)	2	1989
824	Iron Will (Charles Barkley)	2	1989
825	Action Jackson (Mark Jackson)	2	1989
826	Use your head  (soccer)	2	1989
827	Aqua Gear  (surfing)	2	1989
829	cycling storm	3	1989
830	Do You Know (Spike Lee)	3	1989
831	Rocket Man (Cunningham)	3	1989
832	Passing Lane (Everett)	3	1989
833	Back to back (Strange)	3	1989
834	second to none  (softball)	3	1989/90
835	Mr Hockey and the great one (Howe and Gretzky)	3	1990
837	Is it the shoes (Jordan, Lee) white	3	1990
838	Is it the shoes (Jordan, Lee) black	3	1990
839-841	Robinson / Barkley / Mullen	3	1990
842-844	Wilkens / Jackson / Harper	3	1990
845	Bo Knows Diddley ( Diddley, Jackson)	3	1990
846	Go Bo	3	1990
848	Orbit (Jordan)	3	1990
849	take no prisoners	3	1990
850	Air Jordan - Michael Jordan	1	1985
851	Jordan freezeframe - Michael Jordan	1	1985
852	Dr K - Dwight Gooden	1	1985
853	Mac II - John McEnroe	1	1985
854	Boss Boggs - wade boggs	1	1985
855	Ricks world - rick Sutcliffe	1	1985
856	Stickball - gooden / murphy	1	1985
857	Airforce - moses malone	1	1985
858	Jordan blue &  black - Michael Jordan	1	1985
859	football - Lipps and Hayes	1	1986
860	Lotts lot - Ronnie Lott	1	19886
861	The Judge - Lester Hayes	1	1986
862	Manute Bol growth chart	1	1986
863	Hitting machine - Tony Gwynn	1	1986
864	Gary Carter	1	1986
865	Wally world - Wally Joyner	1	1986
866	Men at Work	1	1986
867 (1)	Imagination Michael Jordan	1	1986
867 (3)	Imagination (Jordan)	3	1991/92
868 (1)	shirts & skins	1	1986/87
868 (3)	shirts & skins (Jordan)	3	1991/92
869	Ohio Flyer Ron Harper	1	1987
870	Superman (Mike Schmidt)	4	1987
871	Lethal Weapon (Howie long)	4	1987
872 873	Supreme Court II Mr Barkley	4 4	1988 1988
874 (4)	Earth / Mars (Jordan / Lee)	4	1988
874 (3)	Earth / Mars (Jordan / Lee)	3	1991/92
875	Clark (Will Clark)	2	1989
876	McGriwe (Mark McGwire)	2	1989
877	Strange Days (Curtis Strange)	4	1988
878	Ian Rush	4	1988
879	Ace of Hearts -  Agassi	4	1988
881 (2)	wimps need not apply	2	1988
881 (3)	wimps need not apply	3	1991/92
882	the ball player - Bo Jaackson	4	1988
883	Jordan MVP	4	1988
884	double trouble	4	1988/89
885	I Love LA  Gretzky	4	1989
886	Hockey Night in California Wayne Gretzky	2	1989
887	serious hang time (Anthony Carter)	4	1989
888 (2)	High fly 'n 360	2	1989
888 (3)	High fly 'n 360	3	1991/92
889	Just Do It	2 or 4	1989
889(3)	Just Do It	3	1991/92
890 (2)	Mark Allen "Cycling"	2	1989
890 (3)	Mark Allen "Cycling"	3	1992
890 (2) 891	Jeff Pierce "Cycling) misslabeled as Allen Playground  (Jordan)	2 2	1989 1989
892	Run like the wind (Butch Reynolds)	2	1989
893 (2)	Texas Ranger (N. Ryan)	2	1989
893 (3)	Texas Ranger (N. Ryan)	3	1991/92
894	Cream of the Crop (Darryl Strawberry)	2	1989
895	Sax's (Steve Sax)	2	1989
896	Rebel with a Cause (John McEnroe)	2	1989
897	Womens Volleyball	2	1989
898	Just Do It (craig blanchette)	2	1989
899	all conditions gear - rock climb Castleton Rock UT	2	1989
901	Little Dreams (Stacy Allison)	3	1989
902	New ballgame (women)	3	1989
903	Cross Training (Bo Jackson)	3	1989
904	open road	3	1989/90
905	Fi Fi Home Run (Kevin Mitchell)	3	1990
908	Don’t I know You (Jackson)	3	1990
909	Reverse Dunk (Michael Jordan)	3	1990
910	Rookie of the Year (David Robnson)	3	1990
911	Out of the blue (Kirby Puckett)	3	1990
912	grace under pressure (mark grace)	3	1990
913	Can You say rebound? (David robinson)	3	1990
914	mark allen  triarthlete	3	1990
916	relief hitters (Crystal / Jackson)	3	1990
918	King of Zing (Ryan)	3	1990
919	Say your Prayers (Abbott / Langston)	3	1990
920	Rice be nimble ( rice)	3	1990
921	Endless Summer (Pugh /Leach)	3	1990
922	Jam 'N Slam (Jordan)	3	1990
923	Hit and Run II (Jackson)	3	1990
924	Bo Knows School  (Jackson)	3	1990
925	Serve and Volley (McEnroe)	3	1990
926	Sunday School (Reggie White)	3	1990
927	Kenetics (K. Griffey Jr.)	3	1990
928	Sheer Will (W. Clarkk)	3	1990
929	DAVID ROBINSON (oversized)	3	1990
933	SUPER DAVE (R.Miller, G. Wilkens, K. Smith)	3	1990
935	Bo Super Hero (Bo Jackson)	3	1990
936	Rice & Ronnie (J. Rice/R. Lott)	3	1990/91
937	Agassi square	3	1990/91
938	Uh Oh (J.Kersey, T. Porter, B. Williams)	3	1990/91
939	Down Under (S monghetti)	3	1990/91
940	Metamorphosis (B. Jackson)	3	1991
941	big swing ( P. Jacobson, C. Strange)	3	1991
942	Super Robinson (D. Robinson)	3	1991
943	Greetings From the Pipeline (B. Jackson)	3	1991
945	own the road (Mark Allen)	3	1991
946	super Jordan	3	1991
947	driven to perfection (Bo Jackson)	3	1991
948	Jordan / Genie (Jordan, Lee, Richard)	3	1991
949	Speak Softly (R. Sandberg)	3	1991
950	You're Up (softball)	3	1991
951	Gamez rookie	3	1991
952	super Barkley	3	1991
957	womens hoop '91	3	1991
958	piano man (Robinson)	3	1991
959	Genie (Little Richard)	3	1991
961	Super Andre (A. Agassi)	3	1991
962	neighborhood birthday (Robinson)	3	1991
963	rock & Roll tennis (A. Agasi)	3	1991
964	kids soccer	3	1991
966	the serve (A. Agasi)	3	1991
967	neighborhood rookie (D.robinson & G. peyton)	3	1991
968	Aqua Fly (L. Hamilton)	3	1991
970	hot salsa (R. Martinez)	3	1991
978	the long and short of it (B. Larkin)	3	1991
979	built to last (C. Fisk)	3	1991
980	Fined (C.Barkley)	3	1991
982	double vision (leach and Pugh)	3	1991
983	Barry Sanders	3	1991
984	Super Nolan (N. Ryan)	3	1991
985	coast to coast (D. Strawberry)	3	1991
987	It's not over (Bo Jackson)	3	1991
988	I'm back (Bo Jackson)	3	1991
989	Doesn't give up (N. Ryan)	3	1991
993	The Bo Show (Bo Jackson)	3	1991
994	evolution (M.Jordan)	3	1991
995	beam me up (Scottie Pippen)	3	1991
996	Super Jerry	3	1991
997	flight dimension (S. Pippen, T. Davidson)	3	1991
998	Ronnie Lott - lots of pain	3	1991
1001	Hare Jordan (M. Jordan/Bugs Bunny)	3	1992
1002	Sky Jordan (M.Jordan)	3	1992
1003	Jordan cloud (M. Jordan)	3	1992
1004	Agassi TV	3	1992
1005	Art of the Dunk (M. Jordan)	3	1992
1010	That’s All Folks (M. Jordan /Bugs Bunny)	3	1992
1015	First Serve (A Johnson)	3	1992
1543	Strange Thoughts	2	1988
1621a	Hit & Run  (Bo Jax - hit)	2, 4	1988
1621b	Hit & Run  (Bo Jax - run)	2, 4	1988
1884	for Women Only	2	1988
2335	Wings (Jordan)	3	1989

 

49. Chronological Release of Nike Poster Cards 1982 - 1992

Two specific things have confused collectors over the years about the Nike poster cards. 

(1) A lack of awareness that there were 4 different types of cards especially the Type 4 cards with no information on them 

                                       &  

(2) the numerical Nike numbers vs the year of issuance which for so long has made no sense. 

I think this set of blogs have pretty well explained the 4 Types and which card numbers  they were issued for. But even hard core collectors will have to really read every blog to get an understanding of the chronological order of release.  To try to make that simpler, lets look at the following plot. 

*** As of 5/10/2022 we have filled in most of the missing Nike product numbers and corrected several date errors...Go to blogs 76 - 86 for the up to date accurate checklist and explaination of chronological release***

Nike first started selling posters to customers in 1982 and the first grouping, through 290249, were being released into early 1985. 

For some reason (probably tied to Jordan and the massive contract they signed with him) they then jumped ahead and, in 1985 through early 1987, issued 850 - 869.

At this point there was a split and they followed two parallel courses Track 1 and Track 2

Track 1 goes back and picks up pre 290850 poster cards (811 - 849) and issues them from 1988 through 1990.

Track two starts issuing post 290869 poster cards  in 1987 and issues numbers 870 through 1015 from 1987 through 1992. 

These appear to be the facts...we do not understand the reasoning. 


04/2022

UPDATE

New information from a NIKE retail poster department worker during this period of time has completely revised out thinking of why the posters were numerically out of order in their chronological release. For the complete story see blog # 76

48. Michael Jordan Nike Poster Card Checklist and references

As we have mentioned, Michael Jordan has by far the most posters in the series. There are Michael Jordan poster cards of all 4 Types. They started in 1985 when he signed his deal with Nike and ran through 1992 .

For the Jordan collector a complete checklist is given below. That's 28 unique  poster cards over the 1985 - 1992 time period. 

Pictures of all of these poster cards can be found in the blogs dealing with those specific Nike numbers and Types.  

As we have said before 850, 851 and 856 all predate the Fleer Jordan "rookie Card". 


I have also discussed the Jordan poster cards here: 

https://sportscollectorsdigest.com/collecting-101/nike-poster-cards-michael-jordan

https://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/michael-jordan-nike-poster-cards-are-a-set-apart/

and here:  https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1027303/erikthredds-michael-jordan-5x7-nike-poster-card-collection

Another interesting article on Jordan posters can be found here:  

*******This checklist was updated by blog # 86 ********

https://solecollector.com/news/2015/06/michael-jordan-nike-air-jordan-posters

Nike Number	POSTER TITLE	TYPE	Year of Issue
290xxx
837	Is it the shoes (Jordan, Lee) white	3	1990*
838	Is it the shoes (Jordan, Lee) black	3	1990*
848	Orbit (Jordan)	3	1990*
850	Air Jordan - Michael Jordan	1	1985
851	Jordan freezeframe - Michael Jordan	1	1985
858	Jordan blue &  black - Michael Jordan	1	1985
867 (1)	Imagination Michael Jordan	1	1986
868 (1)	shirts & skins	1	1986/87
872   874 (4)	Supreme Court II Earth / Mars (Jordan / Lee)	4 4	1988 1988
883	MVP	4	1988
888 (2)	High fly 'n 360	2	1989
891	Playground  (Jordan)	2	1989
909	Reverse Dunk (Michael Jordan)	3	1990
922	Jam 'N Slam (Jordan)	3	1990
946	super Jordan	3	1991
948	Jordan / Genie (Jordan, Lee, Richard)	3	1991
994	evolution (M.Jordan)	3	1991
1001	Hare Jordan (M. Jordan/Bugs Bunny)	3	1992
1002	sky Jordan (M.Jordan)	3	1992
1003	Jordan cloud (M. Jordan)	3	1992
1005	Art of the Dunk (M. Jordan)	3	1992
1010	That’s All Folks (M. Jordan /Bugs Bunny)	3	1992
292335	Wings	3	1989
867 (3)	Imagination (Jordan)	3	1991/92**
868 (3)	shirts & skins (Jordan)	3	1991/92**
874 (3)	Earth / Mars (Jordan / Lee)	3	1991/92**
888 (3)	High fly 'n 360	3	1991/92**
	* issued out of chronological order
	** reissued in 1991/92 as type 3 poster cards

51. Posters / poster cards with no Nike numbers and/or catalog mentions

Only one more thing that we need  to discuss. There are a group of  known posters of the period that have never showed up as NPC. Some  showed up in the 1988 Nike  poster catalog others in the 1991 Nike Mike checklist.

In no specific order, if readers know of poster cards to match these posters, or know of Nike numbers to match these posters please let me know.




A Time to Learn - Max Lomax

shown in the 1988 catalog and given the Nike number 291284 in the 1991 Nike Mike checklist 

Kids Kubs (Some Sides Never Retire) 

Shown in the 1988 catalog without a Nike number

 Rising Stars - Artis Gilmore

Poster from the late 1970s shown on Nike Mike 1991 posters list . No PNC is known

The Portland Tower - Sam Bowie

 

#1 draft pick for Portland in the 1984 draft (could have had Jordan ) 

Curious as to why this has never been seen as a NPC.

Bombs Away - Dan Fouts

Nike reportedly did not have the permission to use the Chargers uniforms so most of the posters were recalled and destroyed. 

Kick in the Grass  1982 Tampa Bay Rowdies

Iron Man - Dave Scott (triathelon)

Before Mark Allen there was Dave Scott. Here is his poster. No poster card is known

Doomsday - Dallas Cowboys

Should have been issued ~ 1981. Why wasn't this one reprinted ?

Great Gretzky - Wayne Gretzky 1981

Even if this was first produced before the initial round of posters in 1982/83 wouldn't you think this one would have been reprinted ??

We will add more here over time.....Please send other suggestions.