2000 Fleer E-X Essential Credentials Tom Brady ROOKIE /25 #122 BGS 9 MINT

When it comes to 2000 sets, Brady has more parallels (63) than rookie cards (44). Among those parallels, 54 are sequentially numbered with production figures as low as 1/1 to as high as /2000. Outside of his four 1/1 rookie parallels, only six are more scarce than Brady’s 2000 E-X /25 Essential Credentials Future rookie – arguably his most popular serial-numbered rookie parallel. The E-X brand has roots in the baseball and basketball cards, starting as SkyBox E-Motion before transforming into E-XL. The line then went through a redesign and came across all three sports as E-X2000, E-X2001, and E-X Century between 1997 and ’99. The intricate designs combined plastic card stocks, foils, and other materials stacked in layers, and when combined with the popular serial-numbered Credentials parallels from those years, the product rose toward the forefront of the industry. Fleer simplified the design for 2000 E-X, but the cards maintained a clean aesthetic with a background including the primary colors of a player’s team on either side of a twisting design across the middle. For the 2000 Essential Credentials parallel, Fleer capped production for veterans at 50 and gave the cards a red hue, while rookies have only 25 cards and a blazing blue finish. That aesthetic helps Brady’s image pop off the card, making him stand out much like this card does amongst many of his other rookies. No example of this card assessed by BGS has been graded higher. There are no PSA 10 examples. Learn more about TB12 in our Guide to Tom Brady’s Football Cards: https://www.fanaticscollect.com/definitive-guides/a-guide-to-tom-bradys-football-cards The certification number on this card has been checked against the third-party grader's online database and is active as of 07/08/2025.