Mate, if you hit 500, you need to document it and send it to becketts with a picture of the cards and yourself. Your dedicated and though I wouldn't do it myself, good luck finishing off 500.
You might be this dudes biggest fan or at least a fan of that one card!
You are a mad man but congrats for having the discipline to stick with one goal.
I look forward to seeing all 500.
I think you should send atlanta hawks an email and try and get this on to the man himself. After he sees your collection he may send you some auto'd memrobilia to keep the collection going. I know I sure would, especially if I saw that the guy had 2 - 3 of my entire jersey's haha.