Cards not licensed by the NFL is nothing new..As we know the NFL will always favor the Trading Card GODS (Topps (Disney), Panini , Fleer...Many companies i.e. Fleer have had to wait years to become Major League... I really don't know the science of all of these cards....Walter Payton did an entire series just on his own career and it wasn't backed by the NFL...Some players go independent....Good Luck making sense of the rainbow..