Hello, and welcome to the football card podcast. You made it. It's Friday. It's a new year. It's 2026, and you're listening to the fastest growing podcast in the entire world that's centered around football cards, and most importantly, football cards.

I'm your host, John aka, Pat Nicholson. And with me as always is Brett, mister stacking slabs himself. Brett, how are you doing? Doing well. I wanna I appreciate you accommodating this recording early.

We are in this state of uncertainty here at Stacking Slabs HQ where we are still waiting for my daughter to be born. So, yeah, I am trying to get in as much content as possible. Definitely wanted to make sure the loyal listeners of the football card podcast had something in the New Year because there's the resolutions. People are dieting, going to the gym, doing all these things. And I felt like we need to be here for you while you're trying to make all of these transformational changes that you'll drop come February.

Mhmm. Like, I'm sure there's someone out there making a resolution of I need to consume more football card content. And if if that is you, we are here for you. Or if you know of someone whose resolution is to, you know, collect more football card pod more football cards, and they also then wanna collect football card podcasts, point them, in our direction. Are you, has the dust settled on your, holidays yet on maybe specifically the like, has the dust settled on Christmas and all the things in the family and that rigmarole that we go through as parents?

As of recording this, well, peek behind the court curtain. This is Monday, December 29. So we're a few days in the past. It's the dust is settling, but by the time this comes out, I'll be doing one last family trip, little road trip to Nashville to see my sister and her kids. So, no, we're still we're still kinda in the thick of it over here.

I, my wife and I were watching a movie last night. We're trying to spend some quality time together before, number three enters the scene and completely wrecks everything going on. And I was following last night's, Sunday night football game on my phone up until the movie ending and my wife going to bed. And so I watched it from the third quarter through, and it I mean, we have seen some really good primetime games, and last night was such an entertaining game. And, obviously, the result wasn't what you wanted as a bears fan, but I think the takeaway is that the forty niners are probably playing better than anybody right now.

They're unbelievable, and the bears were right there until the last play. So, what was your read on last night's game? Yeah. Honestly, not even mad about that loss. Like, would've loved to see it.

I came there at the two yard line. They had a chance to put it in, but the niners are really, really good. The bears are still young and growing, but they can go toe to toe with anyone it feels like. And, like, this niners team, yeah, they're a little banged up, but so are the bears, but, like, that's a team with real Super Bowl experience. That's like a NFC heavyweight.

So to see the bears kinda go blow for blow with them was not a game I'm used to watching. Again, it feels I'm trying to, like, live in the moment and remind myself that, like, five years from now, this could all be gone, and I'll be like, god. Remember when the bears had that squad that was dropping 38 points on Sunday night football? Like, that trying to live in the moment, enjoy it, and, like, this team is, I still believe in them. They clinched the NFC North NFC North division champions.

That feels good. They're gonna have a home playoff game at Soldier. So, no, vibes are high. I hope Luther Burton is healthy. I hope the rest of the team can get back.

Like, everyone had the flu. All the player like, half the team traveled separately because everyone was sick. It was a weird week, but, no, I love I trust Ben Johnson. He is, like, worthy of being in the Shanahan McVeigh conversation already, it feels like. As far as, like, creative offensive mind, he doesn't have the success yet, obviously.

But yeah. And Caleb. I love Caleb. I love this team. The that's a good place to be.

Last night as I was watching that, I my mind had had it was very comforting because I was like, I can watch this awesome football game, and I'm not, like, butthurt over the absolute just collapse that my team has gone through this year. And I'm ready to watch play football because I think this will be really fun. It's a year where there's no clear cut dominant favorite, and it feels more open than ever before. And, maybe as I just, like, kinda tie a bow, and I know there's one game left that's meaningless, but just I'm as a Colts fan, I'm very interested in what's going to happen on the other side. This will be the first year where Carly or, say, Gordon is in control of making the decisions on what's next for this team from an ownership perspective.

So that'll be something that I'll be paying attention to. And, yeah, I don't wanna make any predictions or bombastic statements at this point, but definitely another disappointing year. And it's just the it's just status quo. It's been that way for a long time. So we'll see, but I'm excited to watch the playoffs.

And more importantly, I'm excited to talk about some football cards. How about you? Yes. Finally, football cards. My none of my family wants to talk about football cards, you know, sitting around living room.

Everyone's watching movies, making small talk. No one no one wants to talk about Prism release. They don't they don't get it. So here's seen them pop up in saved searches? Have you seen the Prism popping up?

I saw, like, retail cards pictures have been trickling out there, but I don't is it out? Or All dude, all I'm say I I set up the saved search on eBay, and I don't know what's out there or how it's out there. Somebody can educate us. I see silvers, and I see orange the orange cracked ice non numbered. That's like, there are those that are on eBay, and then there's, like, nothing else.

Yeah. I feel like I saw something about retail somehow has been getting out there or getting opened. So because I saw, yeah, like, pictures of some bears players, some of the rookies, like their prism, though exactly we're talking about the oranges and silver circulating. So I'm looking on the Panini website right now. It doesn't have a it keeps changing.

What it was supposed to be, like, November, and then it moved to December. And then last I saw, I think it was, like, Jan nine. Yep. So I don't I don't know about this set, man. I don't I I am not I don't wanna jump to conclusions, but I don't want I'm not looking I do not like the look.

I just it just it just doesn't it's not doing it for me. Maybe we'll wait and see, like, pictures, more of cards or whatever, but I something about the design. It's just not a great ending of this story to me. No. It like we talked about, it's got Panini instant vibes combined with, like, 2016 prism.

Yes. Which I hate. It's my least favorite looking card. Yeah. Too much too much black on, like, the border.

Just simple borders. Give me pure gold, full borders. Is that because this is a, it is a cousin of the prism black basketball release? Because that was the you had them say, the basketball, we're not gonna do a stand alone set, but we're gonna call it prism black, and we're gonna kinda treat it as a prism set. But we're gonna do some different parallels, all this.

And then they just adopted that design for WNBA, and they've adopted that design for, for football. And so it feels like the foundation of this final release is a, not even a flagship Prism, and I can't look past that. I can't look past the fact that it's Prism black basketball in the same look and field, and then this is the flagship Prism set. And I'm just saying it up front because this has been in my head, and it's driving me crazy right now. Yeah.

But that's because basketball, they kinda, like, snuck that black set out. Correct. And, yeah, I guess it's like, you just gotta recycle designs. But come on. Like, with Chad GPT or with AI anymore, you can whip up a new design.

Like, what are we doing? I know, man. So, yeah, I Or with talented artists and creators out there. Not don't don't shit pivot to all AI. Use some talented creators.

But yes. So, yeah, anyways, I completely sidetracked this, and we'll do once this thing drops officially, we'll do a full breakdown, and, we'll dig into it. But those are my initial thoughts. Yeah. I mean, I'll still probably buy some of it.

But Of course. Because I have a sickness, but not my favorite. Yeah. Let's get into it. We've got episode 28.

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There is no alternative. Episode 28. 28 is a good number. We've got hall of famers Marshall Falk, Darrell Green, Yale Larry, Curtis Martin, and Mike Mikalski. But then in general, I was just thinking about, is this the best running back number, like, with by depth too?

Because like we said, we got Falk and Curtis, but then also Adrian Peterson, more done, Fred Taylor, Corey Dillon, CJ two k, Chris Johnson, another Mhmm. Colts running back that you're fond of. 28 is pretty solid, like, all the way to the end of the bench. Yeah. Obviously, 28 is burned into my brain just based on it being a number that has consistently been worn by, some Colts running backs.

And speaking of running backs, John, I felt like this is you know, when you're a sicko and you got your season's over with and you gotta hang on to different things, I decided, in preparation because my 02/20 eights I wanna mention, I wanna mention hall of famer Marshall Faulk, and I also wanna mention my favorite player on the Colts, Jonathan Taylor. Both were 28. Marshall Faulk, I know he was drafted by the Colts, but, you know, had most of his hall of fame success elsewhere with the rams. And we talked to Madden last week. Madden 2003 with Falk on the cover was really a defining game for me.

I I played that one. That was, like, my launching off point into the Madden hemisphere. I I played Madden before that, but 2,003 was really a staple game. And so as I was thinking about this and looking at, Taylor and his season, obviously, it started off with a huge bang and then has fizzled out a little bit as still productive, but just fit not has been as extreme based on kind of the way the team has shaken up. I decided to do some digging and doing some a little bit of stats looking going into week one because we have the opportunity for a triple crown winner, on the running back position this year.

And the last triple crown winner was in 2021, and it was Jonathan Taylor. And so I wanna here's some running back stuff first. Number one, there has been out of the top 10 running backs and attempts this year, there has been they've played every game. So there's 16 games. So we're we're getting a healthy running running back in the year 2025.

Out of the top 10 in yards, they all have played 16 games except Kyren Williams who played 15 games, who just won, off the marker. And then top 10 running backs and touchdowns, eight have played all 16 games, and except for two. You had Kyren again with 15 games and then Josh Jacobs with 15 games. So there is out of those top 10 lists when we're looking at Triple Crown, there has been only two players, and they've only missed one game. So, you know, people are saying, like, running backs can't hold up this and that.

Like, before I get into a kinda Triple Crown watch, what what do you make of that? We've got some, we've got some guys playing football, all the games this year. I know. There has been a running back resurgence of the the bell cow back. The lead back has emerged, and, yeah, there people are staying healthy.

I feel like there was it's because everyone's just blowing Achilles now. No one's tearing ACLs, MCLs anymore, blowing out knees anymore. It's all Achilles injuries, so maybe there's something there to dig into. But, yeah, I don't know. It just felt like for a while there, running backs were always getting hurt, and then teams had to have two or three running backs.

So the running back by committee maybe was becoming a little more popular and prevalent. But, yeah, I don't I don't know what it is. Are running backs getting better at going down, avoiding big hits? Like, you know, I'm sure that's all stuff that gets coached and, taught, or this is just a crop of generational running backs right now. I mean, at the top of the rushing yard list, as of recording this, James Cook is just barely ahead of Jonathan Taylor by about 50 some yards, 47 yards.

And then Derrick Henry's back up there, old reliable, Devin H. Chan, Dijon, Javonte, Williams. Yeah. This is a good Saquon's still up there, Gibbs. So there's a good crop right now in the NFL.

This is enjoy it, people. Yes. So enjoy it. I'm a running back guy. I know John is a running back guy.

Quick update, on the Triple Crown watch here. So here's the stakes going into this final week, which is insignificant on paper for, the Colts, but very significant for a play one player's resume. Did you know this, John, that if Jonathan Taylor is able to win the Triple Crown in the final week of the season, he will be the only player to have won the Triple Crown since Jim Brown, who and he won the Triple Crown in '58, '59, and '65. There has not been another multiple triple crown winner since Jim Brown. Wow.

That's sick. So those are those are implications. So wait. It's rush yards, rush touchdowns And attempts. Attempts.

Oh. So here's the attempt. Here it is. Attempts right now, Jonathan Taylor's leading in attempts by two over James Cook. He's got 309.

James Cook has 307. Christian McCaffrey has 303. So, hopefully, if the Colts could do one thing right at the end of this game, a season, which Riley Leonard will likely be star starting is just hand the ball off to Jonathan Taylor replay. So yards, Jonathan Taylor's trailing James Cook by 47 yards, which you said that. And then Derrick Henry would need, like, a monstrous day, but he's in third.

And then touchdowns. Jonathan Taylor's leading in touchdowns with 18. Derrick Henry has 16, and then Josh Allen is in third place with 14. So no other player could win Triple Crown this year except for Jonathan Taylor. So we'll we'll see how it shakes up, but that's what I'll be watching in the final week of the season.

And who do the Colts play? The Texans, which will be Okay. That'll be real easy to do in that game. Yeah. Well, maybe they're resting starter.

I don't know the AFC playoff stand like, they have they won the South? Is there a South winner yet? They, let's see here. That's the I believe the Jaguars clinched the South by beating the Colts, I believe. Yeah.

I I would know that off the top of my head, but I've obviously been a little distant. Yeah. I didn't know if, because both those teams are the Texans and Jags seem to be hot at this particular moment. Dude, they've they've they've won they've won, like, collectively 15 or 16 games in a row. Jeez.

Yeah. Yeah. My boy on the end of year watch list, scrimmage yards. It's coming down to Bijan versus CMC, and I've got I'd I should've made a bet with Chris Hoch before this season on something here. But CMC took the lead last night, but this is again, we're recording Monday.

Bijan plays tonight with a chance to take the lead back and hopefully get a little bit of a cushion before the the final week. Do you think Jonathan Taylor are they gonna, like, be playing for the Triple Crown? Like, is do you think he's aware of it, the team's aware of it, and that's something they want to go out and get? Or is at this point, are they like, let's stay healthy, pack it up? Is has is there any reports or anything like that?

Dude, I haven't seen that's the the sickening thing of this is, like, with the media, it has all been based on, just the downfall, which rightfully so it should be. But the the, by the way, the division is Clint will be clinched in the final week in the South. I was just looking that up. So it'll be determined. So Houston will be playing.

But the dude, I've seen zero information about about this anywhere. And I was just, like, curious because looking it up right before we recorded. And so, yeah, maybe it'll trickle out this week. They'll start talking about it. But, I mean, if the the staff is gonna do one thing right, hopefully, they'll try to help him get there.

Yeah. Well, yeah, I just always wondering with, like, the way team incentives work, and I love that when it's like this guy needs four more catches to get $500,000, and they you can tell that there's an effort to get him the catches. That's always a fun part of the final week of the season when there are some meaningless games out there. So there'll be fun things to watch still. No doubt.

Yeah. 20 eights. And then shout out Yale Larry. I just saw that name on the list of hall of famers, and I'm like, I bet Yale Larry's an old old school guy that we love. And sure enough, yeah, he was a safety punter and return specialist, played with the lions in the fifties, Has a classic looking vintage card that sold for over $5,000.

So, yeah, shout out Yale Larry. Actually, it's maybe it's Larry, l a r y, one r. But are you pulling up his card? Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, look at this. Look at that hair. All these are broken because I think they were sold on no. Uh-uh. Come on.

Give me one here. They're all broken. What's going on here? Card ladder. What are you doing?

Something's going on. What are you doing? But you could still see that the little curl. He's got the little, like, greaser Danny hairdo going on. Danny Zucco?

Yeah. Yeah, dude. That's incredible. Shout out Yale. Yeah.

Shout out Yale. Shout out little vintage football talk. Alright. Episode 28 topics. Let's get into it.

Shout out Brett for prepping this episode because I was in holiday I don't wanna say holiday hell. I was in holiday the the cyclone over the weekend and then into the bears game, and then we're recording this Monday because, yeah, Brett is about to be a father of three. Yeah. Can you believe it? It's I you know what?

I have not thought about this, but I will I'm a little Danny Tanner stuff going on here with my daughter. So maybe I maybe we get a get an uncle Jesse going on here, and we get a studio in the basement. Joey, who people refer to Joey Gladstone as uncle Joey, but he's not he's not the uncle. Jesse Yeah. People say uncle Joey.

Look at the look at the family lineage and legacy. Gladstones are not a part of it. Constopolis and the Tanners, there's connections. But Gladstone, it's a misnomer when people say that. But, anyways, I could we could talk about Full House.

I could probably do a whole show on Full House. I know it like the back of my hand. Are you a Full House guy? It was never one of my top I I'm aware of it. I know the, the references.

I knew the uncle Joey, discourse that's been going on. I I'm just more interested in Dave Coulier and Alanis Morissette and the mess that Dave Coulier left. You ought to know, man. How about ain't that just that is so incredible. And if people don't know, you ought to know by Lanus Morissette, which was on Jagged Little Pill, which is just an iconic nineties record.

That song was about Dave Cooley, so that's just unreal. Shout out Jagged Little Pill. I could we could do a whole episode about Jagged Little Pill, though. I think over 20,000,000 sold, just a one of the greatest albums of all time. I mean, bangers front to back.

My wife and I went to New York to Broadway to see Jagged Little Pill on Broadway. Yeah. God. Not bad. Not bad.

I would have rather have seen, Atlantis play the record live, but what are you gonna do? Yeah. No. When we were living out in New York, definitely had to go see that. Yeah.

Head over feet, you learn. Hand in my pocket. Ironic? It's loading. Come on.

Come on. When we talk about pro football reference pages being full of the bold, jagged little pill. Jagged little pill is Aaron Donald. Like, that's that's pride. That's the comp right there.

Oh, man. Alright. Let's get, shout out to all of our Atlantis fans out there. Let's get to, three and out. Yeah.

We're we're starting on first down. A little run play here. Mhmm. I was thinking a lot about football cards and just from the perspective of they're way more expensive than they were, you know, two, three years ago. And so some people have to adapt when they start seeing this.

So my question is, what is one mindset mindset shift that can help football card collectors save money during this time of growth and loud people talking on podcasts about football cards like us? What can people what a mindset shift that can help football collectors save money. I think for me, one that's helpful is it doesn't all happen at once. Like, you can miss cards. It's okay.

I feel like it's become almost a not I don't wanna say an excuse, and I've I've used this, but saying, like, I have to have that card or I had to have that card as a reason to then, like, spend a lot of money and, like, have to do a consolidation and all those things to get a card. It's like, yes, those, instances happen, but it can't happen all the time because then you're just always like, if you have to have every card if you have to have every card, you have nothing. So I think there's that. Just like the patience of it, the long game of it, you can miss auctions. It's okay.

Because I've definitely been on both sides of it. Sometimes get stuck in, like, a constantly checking eBay safe searches and really feeling it's competitive and that, like, if I miss out on a card, I miss by chance. But I've since shifted my mindset to be a little more like, hey. Just let the cards come to you. It's okay.

No stress. And then another part of it is just, like, find a set that, like like, a cheap set that's just fun to get mail days from. Like, you get Brett, you're getting that Anthony Richardson metal card for $4 the other day. Like, have a couple sets like that where if a card pops up, I still get, like, $34 mail days, and I still get enjoyment out of those. So that, like, can keep me active, can, you know, keep the mail days coming without breaking the bank while I'm also kinda waiting maybe for other certain cards, to pop up.

So I don't know if it's one specific mindset shift as much as just like, yeah, just stay patient and keep an open mind, like, explore new lanes. What about you? What were what were you thinking here? The more along the lines of the latter part, which you said, and I I just will remind listeners that we get so fixated on specific parallel sets because they look cool. We like them.

They're going up in value. We talk a lot about those types of cards on this podcast, but that doesn't mean they're the only cards. It wasn't long ago that you could buy, you know, certain parallels, finest stuff for pennies on the dollar of what it's going for now. And I I I I'm I think we should always remind ourselves that that it is so easy to get caught up in wanting what's going up in value. But the opportunity typically is in connecting with a product that no one else is really paying attention to that you love because it brings you happiness and it doesn't cost you much.

That sweet spot, like, when you find that set and you can start finding those cars and it feels like you're the only one who's collecting that stuff and you're buying it, you're getting, like, $20, $25 mail days and you're like, it but it's stuff you really love and you believe in. Like, to me, that I'm on a constant quest to find those sorts of opportunities and sets, and that's where I would direct anyone who's, like, maybe trying to save a little money or spent maybe a a bunch of money at the end of the year. It's like, maybe slow down a little bit and try to connect with something new and something new that's not a thousand dollars every time you're buying a new card. Yeah. Exactly.

And even for, like, newer, bigger like, right now, I want Caleb Williams cards, but Caleb Williams is one of those players that, you know, is in the the flipper vortex of pricing. But, like, that's why I'm buying mosaic cards and revolution cards. I'm not saying those are obscure sets. Those are well known sets, but it's you know, there are other lanes. It's not just like I'm only holding out for the top brands and, like, spending a ton of money on those kinds of cars.

There's always some little set, little unexplored lane to find. Even for, like, a big player like that, even if you wanna collect Tom Brady, go back in the early two thousands. There's crazy sets that you can find. Even his rookie year, there's, like, an not unknown, but there's just random Brady rookie stuff out there that, could be fun to collect. So there's there's always something.

You just gotta knowledge research is everything. Just just dig around. Alright. Good. Feel like we pushed the ball forward.

Mhmm. Five yard game. Yeah. Great. Four yards on a first down run play is always good.

So we're we're hitting them with the number two. Got this one inspired from the community. My man, Anthony Summertime, one of one, who I've done deals with. He's, dude, it's like every other day. He's bringing some crazy one of one to market, but he had a very strong story post, and it was so good that I screenshotted it, and I wanted to talk about it on the podcast.

So in second down, I saw a story post from Anthony, summertime one of one, that got my attention. He reshared an alt record sale post of a 2024 Prism Black. We already talked about Prism Black. Anthony Edwards Nebula, first off the line, of one PSA 10 selling for $44,700. Anthony's comment was didn't see a single person blink about this Prism Black Nebula that did 45 k, but everyone's up in arms about the 2012 Marshawn Lynch, finite.

And, dude, I saw that, and I was like, this is this is such a very reasonable, valid post. And, obviously, we're football card defenders. But we just talked about this Prism black basketball set that was, like, put together at the end, and it you've got this Anthony Edwards Nebula that's selling for the same price as the Marshawn Lynch, which is the debut year, one of one. And it's just interesting how one card selling at the same price could people are just saying, oh, yeah. That's normal.

But then when a football card does, like, people are losing their mind. So interesting topic. What's your reaction to that? I think it's like a reminder that the concept people understand buying, investing, betting, whatever on a player. But the concept of doing that on a set just takes deeper hobby knowledge, deeper understanding.

This kind of remind me of something that happened a couple days ago where, again, like, seeing a lot of friends over the holiday break, and, like, they asked about the Cutler sale. Like, peep people know about that, like, within my friend group, but, like, non hobby friends and being like, wait. You spent $12,000 on a Jay Cutler card? Like, why? And I'm like you know?

And it's like, how do you explain it? And, again, it all comes down to, like, well, this set's important, and then this parallel's important. It's just, like, levels of explaining that to them, it's just the Jay Cutler card. It's the name Jay Cutler. It's they can't get past that.

So it's, I think, a similar situation here where, like, oh, yeah. 45,000 on Anthony Edwards makes sense. He's a current player. He's a rising superstar. Like, here we go.

But, like, $45,000 on Marshawn Lynch, who's already his career's already done, and he didn't end up being, like, the GOAT. He's awesome, but I think it's just it's harder for people to kinda understand spending money based on, yeah, the set, the the hobby knowledge of something, not just the player name. 100%. And this is not saying football is better than basketball. Basketball is better than football, but I just thought it was a very keen observation and good perspective.

Let's move over to third down. We're gonna try to continue to move the chains here. Mhmm. Third down. Mean, we need to we need to move the chains here.

Yeah. So getting getting getting in to some data for our nineties football fans, connoisseurs, wanted to highlight flare brilliance, 24 karat golds, and some analysis. Now the inspiration for this analysis from my end was, man, it feels like these 24 karat golds really hit that next tier in 2025. So I wanted to dig in to CardLadder and see if that was valid or not. So I just did a year over year comparison.

So we're gonna start with 2024. In 2024, there was four football sales of 24 karat golds that were $5,000 or above. You had the Brett Favre PSA eight selling for 25 k, the Jerry Rice PSA eight selling for 22 k. You had a FARV PSA seven selling for $14,639, and then you had a Troy Aikman PSA 10 selling for $5,795. Those were the four sales, 5 k or more in 2024.

In 2025, it has doubled, more than doubled. We have nine sales of football, 5 k or more on the 24 karat gold front. We start with Barry Sanders PSA eight selling for $48,880. You have two Manning sales. First is a PSA eight selling for which the first sale of this was the b g s or excuse me.

PSA eight selling for $40,800, followed by a BGS eight selling for the exact same price, $40,080 $800. Then you had a Berry PSA nine selling for 40 k, Randy Moss PSA eight selling for 28 k, Favre PSA $7.16 5, Emmitt Smith PSA seven thirteen five, Dion Sanders PSA nine eleven four, and a Dan Marino PSA eight, which just sold in December. It'll it was a PSA eight selling for $5,160, which I was like, man, why is Dan Marino not getting any love here? Like, this is the most recent of the bunch. So just some data, some sales.

These cards are amazing. They're cool. People are collecting them. I'm seeing a lot of people, you know, putting stuff together. I looked at Joe Lopez, Christmas tree.

One of his Christmas trees was 24 karat gold trees. So what do you make of this data and the desirability of the 24 karat gold in football? And if I didn't say it already, this is, of course, is out of FLIR Brilliance, which was a one and done set in 1998. Yeah. This is great great data deep dive right there, and thank you, Card Ladder, for making that possible.

I think it kinda goes back to what we were hitting on second down where, like, knowledge of, like, the set in parallel. Like, this I feel like 24 carats were, like, the collector's collector's set. Like, you know, like, people loved it, but it didn't maybe have, like, the mainstream appeal or knowledge or marketing, you know, whatever it is. Where now it seems like that is when one of those cards comes to auction, people are watching, people are paying attention. Like, more people know about just what the set and the parallel are, so they're willing to spend more money for it because of its significance, which I don't remember.

It was football card pod or just a normal podcast episode. I remember kinda explaining my definition of significance as kind of value that lives in nonphysical traits. Again, like, coming in, it's like knowledge. It's knowledge based. Like, people are spending this much money on the set because it's number to 24, and it was only the one year.

And there might be actual real gold leaf in there. These cars just look awesome. Like, I've never owned one, but they're so shiny. Like, the they're so gold. All the things that shiny gold collectors would like to, like about a card, and, like, these these cards have it.

So it's just kinda, to me, an awesome set that's getting its due. Like, the values are justified in my opinion, and I'm sure we're just only gonna see it continue to gain popularity. You're muted, Brett. And, of course, I'm muted. We have this Barry Sanders, which is at the top of the mountain currently, and this card sold for $48,800 in a PSA eight, which I think it was this card looks really, really cool.

But I also as I was digging through this, I noticed this. So there has been four public sales of this card. There was another one in October for 40, and then there was one in '23 for twelve five. And then it this okay. Never mind.

It's it was a missing serial number copy, which showed for '8 183, but I was like, this can't be right. But I didn't see the missing serial number of it all. Is do you like, how do you take, like, the the 2025 sales and, like, the stack ranking? I think, obviously, there's there's context. It depends on, like there's probably people who are, like, buildings, like, sets.

And if they already have one, they're not gonna be in the bidding pool for somebody else. But, like, when you look at the kind of the list and what's sold 5 k or above, what's what's your reaction to, like, the player set? Yeah. I mean, Manning's rookie year is something that will always jump out. Like, I I would imagine the Manning will eventually be the highest selling card from the set over Barry even.

Like, it's a rookie of Manning versus a late Barry Sanders card. But, like, I mean, Barry collectors are different. Like, it's a whole different beast. I'm aware of that. So, same with moss.

Like, that's a crazy rookie class right there. But, yeah, I don't know. I mean, what are you thinking? Yeah. I that was kinda my reaction on the Manning front.

The so Barry Sanders, '89 to '98, was his run. So this would be, I guess, technically his last year last year card. And then Manning, I yeah. I can't look past the fact that it's the rookie year, and it's a one and done set, and it was only in '98. So the ship has sailed, I think, for me ever owning a copy of this card.

So I can go talk about how great it is because I it'd be a lot for me to be able to bring one of these home. But, yeah, I I think this card rules. It's always been one of my favorite Manning rookie cards. I think the the players in the set, it's so nostalgic for me and, I think, many nineties collectors. I just find I find it so interesting, dude, how this set, of course, in basketball isn't is revered mostly because Jordan is not in it.

But I find it so interesting that it and I probably should have, with this point, done some more data digging and investigation, but we didn't hit this tier until the last, you know, two or three years. Like, the it's four or five years ago, like, you could I remember there was a raw copy that I all of man and collectors missed. I think John Spurfan at Tech ended ended up with it, and I it was there was a raw copy of the Manning. This is, like, three or four years ago that sold in the Facebook group, and it was, like, 4 or 5 k. And and that was, like, a few years ago.

And it's just it's incredible to me how quickly stuff that like, nothing has changed. It's just, like, all of a sudden, there's this interest in demand. And I find that so fascinating with a set that comes out in '98 with at with 24 copies. That obviously looks good, and it just takes up until a certain point. But once it hits that point, then it's, like, it's hard for that to ever go back down because collectors finally that has their attention and prices are going up.

So I just find, like, the rise of parallel sets that have always looked beautiful and great. I find that interesting in the timing and the dynamics and what what causes all those things to take place. Yeah. And it's interesting to think about how fast social media, man, the Internet. Like, before, everything was pretty much word of word-of-mouth or are you gonna get a little write up in a Beckett magazine or something like that where now it's all of a sudden, there can be a spotlight shined onto a certain set in parallel and really, like, make people understand and love it and wanna buy it, like, right away.

This and we're seeing it. Like, this Manning's PSA eight, his 24 carat in 2021, sold for $11,000. In later of 2021, sold for 24,000. And then in August, sold for 41,000. So just to be Look at at this 2016 sale.

It was $1,100 on PWCC, and this is this is 2016. This is like know, that's what's that that kinda defies the point. But then you were just saying, like, it just has risen, but the jumps over since '21 has been just dramatic. Yeah. And it's yeah.

It's it's crazy. I mean, we're I've we're seeing it across the board with this football stuff where people are learning. People are or people who have, you know, are used to seeing basketball prices for cards looking at football and seeing how relative cheap they are, comparatively. It's like it just makes sense. And we it's something we've kind of harped on, I think, for the past couple years, or a lot of people have.

It's yeah. I don't know. Football cards. What what, final note here is maybe a question is what obviously, '98, this came out forever ago and has seen a rise over the last ten years. Is there anything you think ultramodern collectors can take from seeing the rise of a parallel like this?

Like, not like, oh, go buy this because it's gonna go up this dramatic. But is is there anything you think we can learn from this? Because I would imagine, like, at the time of release, they didn't make an they they didn't make another one of these sets, and there's probably a reason why. It probably didn't sell great. So is I don't know.

Like, what does that tell you about just, like, people who are trying to find gems in the rough, in 2025 going into 2026? Yeah. It is interesting that, like, this being a one and done is, like, a positive thing or is viewed as kinda, like, a mythical part of it versus because a lot of times people will preach of lineage and legacy of how many years did the set exist and the firsts and all that, and this is kinda a one off. So to me, yeah, if I'm ultra modern, it's like instead of, like, what are the random sets that Panini was doing during these last ten years that maybe there was only one of or even two of because I don't know. There's no rules.

Because if you wanna say one off sets, yeah, you can look at 24 carats. If you wanna say two years in a row or three years in a row, you can look at rubies and p m g's. Like, those don't have crazy legacies. They were only around I mean, they I know there are other years, but there's it's basically that '96, '97, '98, '99, whatever with basketball in the multiple years you wanna look at it, but that that window. And then you get into the tops, crumbs, and prisms where they have these long ten year runs, and it's like there's no right answer.

There's it it all works, then it all comes down to what dumb people like you and I wanna spend our money on what football cards. Like, which ones look cool? Which ones, like, a collector's desire? It comes down to that. Like, this card looks sick, so people want to spend money on it.

And multiple people wanting to spend money on the same types of cards drives the prices up. I mean, that's really what it comes down to, I think. Yeah. It's a great great point to end with. These cards have always, year over year, continued to interest me in terms of just, like, watching their activity and what they're doing.

So glad we could get some in for the, 24 carat gold connoisseurs out there. I'm ready to talk market watch. Are you ready to talk market watch? Yep. We got stopped on third down again.

Had to punt. One day, we'll get it. One day, we'll get the first down. One day. Yes.

One day, we will get there. Fans are pissed we're not going for it. Everybody's going for it these days, aren't they? Nope. We're gonna we're playing field position game.

We're gonna pin them deep. Did you did you get a text from our analytics guy? Yeah. They're mad. They said the the analytics said go for it.

Collinsworth is ripping us right now. Alright. Let's call it. These guys. Better safe than sorry.

Alright. Moving over to the market watch segment brought to you by our good friends at Carlyer. And for the second week in a row, we are back entering the Kaboom Room. Can you imagine we're here again? Let's go.

I was thinking the Kaboom Room's like like local television, Wayne's World. Kaboom Room. Kaboom Room. You know, we need a little animated intro. Let's go.

We're in it, though. Shout out public access TV Yes. In the Kaboom Room. We're gonna get a spot here, live call in show. But this is the second week in a row, and granted time in between recordings and data for this episode was a little shorter, but is the second week in a row that when I searched the all of the sales in eBay, a football card was at the top of the highest sold cards on eBay for that previous week.

Last week, we covered a record sale. This week, we're covering another one. So the 2024 absolute Patrick Mahomes green horizontal Kaboom one of one PSA 10 sold for $155,000 on eBay. This took place on December 26. Someone with a little Christmas cash decided, you know what?

Wanna get into the kabooms. That's a big number. 155 k. This sold via best offer. The interesting factor of all this to me is, like, it has the horizontal disclaimer on it.

So it's not even the vertical. It's the horizontal, but it's a one of one. And it's Patrick Mahomes, and it's kaboom, and it's a PSA 10. So it's, like, checking checking all these boxes, but that is a big old sale. What is your reaction?

That is insane. $155 for it's just a lot of money for that that football card. I also saw in the kaboom room, we talk about 2025, which I prefer, like, the 2025 look to this, this 2024. Like, when the kabooms get the realistic photos, to me, isn't the point of the kaboom. The kaboom's supposed to be like a cartoon or a comic knockoff.

So I like when the player is more, like, illustrated or it looks more cartoony because to me, that's, like, that's part of why it's called Kaboom. It's supposed to be like a comic superhero, not like a this looks like a realistic photo of Patrick Mahomes to me that's has a little, like, animated effect or whatever, you know, like, ran through a Photoshop filter. But so I I don't know. It's not, like, my cup of tea necessarily. And, again, yeah, being horizontal, but Patrick Mahomes is already a legend.

And, obviously, these green kabooms, people are going crazy for him. So Dude, nuts, man. There it is so impressive what these cards are going for at this point, and the individuals buying them We're gonna stay in the kaboom room for one minute moving over to 25. Like, that looks sick. It might be.

We have maybe, dude, Drake May is just insane. Like, this guy isn't playing out of his mind. Obviously, if you have Drake May cards and you're not a Drake May fan, you're sitting on gold. And here's an example. So the 25 absolute kaboom vertical one of one Drake May, PSA ten two, sold on eBay, Roth's card store on eBay for $89,500, man.

That is that is like, we're what? I mean, I can't do the math in my head in real time, but those two kabooms together, like, those are two cards and what they're selling for. And this is all taking place on eBay. So, dude, it's it's pandemonium in the kaboom room right now, and you have these two sales back to back. It's just bonkers.

Yeah. Drake May's absolutely cooking right now. So I mean, this is yeah. No. This is his second year, though, as far as the card.

That's That's right. Second year. But see, a, I like this style better because I like how it's more, like, cartoony. I think that leans into the the kaboom effect. No.

I mean, I think it's warranted. Like, Drake May is balling. Like, I mean, I'm not saying this is go spend $90,000 on Drake May, but he seems legit. It's more than just, kind of a fluky season. They're thirteen and three.

He's got 30 touchdowns. 72 completion percentage is insane, throwing the ball downfield. So, yeah, this might be you know, you're seeing how much Mahomes' horizontals are selling for $1.55. I can see how if the Patriots go on a run and win a Super Bowl. And in this kaboom world, someone could turn around and make money off this or or lose money.

Who knows? But, no. This it's just a different world. This the green kaboom world. Like, that's it's again, it's like watching RPAs of from, like, Exquisite or Logo Man.

Like, that's just not it's a different level to the hobby than I occupy. The what's interesting is you contrast this, and granted these are one of ones we're talking about with 24 copies and 24 karat gold. There's obviously a difference there, but it took, you know, it took decades for twenty four year goals to get recognized. And then these cards literally are just coming out, and people are spending this ex this card just, like, came out. And this people spend $90,000 on it.

It's like like, the the people who are buying into these cards, it that's give me a documentary on the Kaboom buyer. Maybe the Kaboom buyer, the green Kaboom buyer, one of one. Like, I just wanna know. I just wanna know, like, how did you get here? And it I'm not questioning, you shouldn't.

I'm just I'm I'm I'm very curious on what drives this sort of sale in the profile of person who is putting up the cash for something like this. Yeah. I that that is a crazy part of it that this is a card from 2025. That's a good point. Like, that Shohei Ohtani logo patch or, like is it called a logoman in baseball, I guess?

Yeah. But the $3,000,000 for a one zero one that just they just printed yesterday. Like, that's crazy. Dude, and it's it's the and granted, this is Panini. These are Panini cards, but, like, that Ohtani card really triggers for me this era we're entering in where you have the manufacturer with marketing chops like Top Slash Fanatics.

You have them in the focus in on distribution channel and the distribution channel being the breaker and really knowing how to leverage media and knowing how to leverage influencers to activate cards in the marketplace like we've had never seen before. And if if the if that Ohtani card was a Panini card, there's no way, in my opinion, that card sells for $303,000,000 or whatever it did. But because Tops is focusing in on the promotional strategy and very, very thoughtful about their execution using modern age mediums and social channels and famous people, like, that dude, that's what I I'm studying that. I'm looking at that. I'm like, this is changing everything.

So that's a storyline, especially on the football front as Tops takes over the license going into next year. I'll be following very, very closely. Yeah. And that's a good call, just like the media marketing awareness of it all. Like, I know this is a little basketball card talk, but the Jordan Kobe signed Logo Man, dual Logo Man, the highest selling sports card of all time, $13,000,000 in August, autographed.

Well, then the o three exquisite version of it, Jordan and Kobe logo man that just sold for 3,100,000.0 in December, like, a couple weeks ago, not autographed, but a 10,000,000 difference because it's autographed or not. I don't know if that's the only reason because, like, the o three Exquisite's more, I'd say, desirable than o seven Exquisite, which is the 13,000,000 sales. So, like, the o three it's like, why did that one sell for 10,000,000 less? Is it just the auto? Or it's also there was no marketing push behind that card at all.

Mhmm. The $13,000,000 sale, that was everywhere. People were doing Gasp, baby. People were doing news hits on Fox News. Like, it was or on wherever.

Like, that card became, like, a sensation in itself. And yeah. I mean oh, yeah. The Wondershine index, they probably that car according to them, that car is probably worth 20,000,000 by now. But It is.

Yeah. Just the the marketing of it all. Again, kinda goes back to just, the knowledge of cards. It's like the more people know about something, the more people see something that becomes more credible. It becomes more valuable.

So there's something there too. Yeah. And I know it's a football card podcast. You're talking basketball. We've talked to Ohtani baseball.

Might as well talk a little Pokemon. I mean, lit literally, we are seeing the promotional mega powers and forces collide between Ken Golden and Logan Paul. Shit. That we're talking Netflix show into news hits into I mean, the activation of that sale of that card. And, dude, it hasn't even gone live yet with a 500 k minimum bid.

Dude, that card is I don't I can't even imagine what it's going to sell for because of how it is all being organized in that like, that is a card when you pull up to your parents, they get out of your house because they know you like cards. And even if you don't like Pokemon cards, hey. Did you hear about this illustrator PSA 10 only one in the world? Because they saw freaking King Gold and Logan Paul. WWE superstar would probably wear the damn thing going into the Royal Rumble.

That that they know that because they saw it on, you know, Fox News, CNN, whatever, MSNBC, whatever major news outlet they're watching. And it's just crazy. And it's it's ultimately, like, this exposure for trading cards, sports cards, I think, is lovely. Like, having more people be aware that of what we're doing and how we're doing it. But I think we, as collectors, need to understand that a lot of this is marketing, and a lot of this is being pushed and, promoted to us.

And there needs to be some restraint and some reserve from us as the collectors as these types of forces are coming at us, or we'll get wrapped up in it with no money and cards that we don't even care about. Yeah. And, yeah, then when you get into that level that you know, like, the buyer is important too or just like it does I don't wanna say it just because it sells for that much money doesn't mean it's worth that much because, technically, it is. Right? That's what it's sold for.

But just because it sells for that doesn't mean it's worth that because someone could be paying that because of other reasons, because they have similar assets that then they're using that to leverage their other the values of their other assets. So there's it's a dangerous game, a tricky game, I feel like, when you get into that world. Like, whatever this illustrator sells for, does it is it really worth that much, or is the person who buys it willing to spend over what it's worth just because they're gonna get name drop. Like, if they want, like, the winner of that card can then themselves become maybe in their mind famous or in their mind, like, oh, Logan Paul's gonna know who I am now. Like, Ken Goldman might shake my hand.

Like, people you know? Like, there's I don't know. It's a it's a weird game up at the top. It is. And I didn't know we could get this deep in the kaboom room, but, damn, the kaboom room is is it's the one, it's the one room we continue to walk into that can never ceases to amaze me.

Yeah. I'm just thinking now. I want Logan Paul at his next main event to walk out wearing a Yale Larry card around his neck. Like, come on. Like, start throwing in some random ones, out there.

Someone that would be that's more fun to me. Instead of wearing the most valuable card around your neck, start throwing around some little vintage football cards or some fun stuff. If you had a card up for auction, how much would you have to pay Logan Paul to wear it around his neck? Yeah. It's like, what or what card yeah.

I wonder what the value of that is. Like, just the A lot. Promotional value. Like, if Logan Paul wore a I'm just trying to think of, like, a Zion based prism around his neck. Like, would we see a spike?

Or a what was the Kabuto card? The Kabuto cards. I don't know. There's that that is a whole story. I mean, we're not a Pokemon card podcast, but the I don't know if you follow that at all, but, like, the guy buying all the Kabuto first edition Pokemon cards, like, he's, like, cornering the market, and it's caused, like, a fervor.

Like, it's getting media coverage, so those cards are going up in value, and it's like this little snowball effect. But I don't know, man. That's wild. Shout out Drake Mays 25 Kaboom for letting us get, on that thread. Let's move over to a oldie but goodie.

We have an 84 tops John Elway PSA 10 that's sold on eBay on Christmas Eve for $13,999. And why I wanted to bring this up is because this is the highest selling Elway since 2021. So we are be we are there's a 192 PSA tens, by the way. Elway does have a documentary, I believe, that's out on Netflix that maybe could have caused it. But it it feels like these high grade, older cards, one rookie per set, these are starting to gain some traction.

So John Elway, you know, certainly one of the hall of famer, one of the greatest quarterbacks ever to do it, and obviously still a fixture in football. Selling for 14 k this year. What do you make of it? This card has an interesting if you go to the ladder of the card. So, like, down below Yeah.

Like because and then go down to the all time. Yeah. The multiple spikes and dips is a little interesting to me where this card's selling for, in 2011, $809,100. By 2012, 1,700, but then there's a spike in 2015. What happened in 2015 that launched this card up into 7,608,000?

Broncos winning the Super Bowl? Yeah. Yeah. And him being a part of it from an you know, a lot of perspective. That's a good call.

But then by 2019, it's back down to a $2,000 card. But then we hit the major boom, 2021, this card tops out at 15 k before settling around 6 k over the last few years, and now it's, like you said, back up into 14. But that's a roller coaster for old old John Elway right there. It's wild. Yeah.

I never know what to make of, like, these one rookie card high grade and what's gonna happen because it's like how many people are sitting on these if they could grade them? But, yeah, man, people are buying this stuff right now. This one caught my attention, but you have a '22 Barry Sanders Blackstar one of one PSA 10 selling on eBay for $7 via fixed price. And, dude, I don't like, obviously, post playing day, obviously, not the premium one of one parallel, but a PSA 10, but it's Barry Sanders. Like, dude, to me is like, what is happening with Barry Sanders' cards right now?

It's absolute euphoria, pandemonium. People are just, like, buying Barry Sanders anything for premiums. It's crazy. Yeah. This is insane.

I was there's a Bijan Robinson one of one that I was discussing trying to purchase with a seller and sent my thoughts on a value based on comps. And the seller comes back with, well, the Barry Sanders did this. And I was like, dude, like, you can't Barry Sanders does not compare it's just like a different world of what people are willing to spend on his cards. Like, I'm not I can't take a Barry Sanders comp to Bijan or even like, any any current running back. It's just a whole different world.

So, like, yeah, $7 for Black Stars is, I mean, it's a sick looking card, but that's just a that's crazy to me. The berry collectors are so aggressive right now, and it's fun to see. A guy you played last night did I saw this 2017 Raw McCaffrey Gold Prism rookie out of 10? This sold via best offer on eBay for 5 k. And I didn't look through, like, previous sales history, but I don't know, man.

To me and I know it's raw, but to me, 5 k for one of his best rookie cards, I mean, he's on pace, you know, hall of fame trajectory. This guy's incredible to watch. It just seemed like especially based on some of the other segments, that seemed like a a pretty decent purchase. Yeah. That he's so good.

Like, not the best, I I guess, of more recently. Like, not the greatest rushing running back. Like, he doesn't have a great yards per carry this year. Maybe that's little older or offensive line issues, but that that guy catches footballs. Like, he can get open out of the slot.

They like Shanahan knows how to use him. Even before Shanahan, though, he's a beast. Like, this is his third season over 2,000 scrimmage yards, so that's definitely an achievement to hit that number three times. Yeah. This is a not an not an insane purchase by any means.

Like, I'd rather a lot of crazy purchases. This one, I feel like, is the the the the the best value. Yeah. I'd rather have this than the Barry Sanders black stars Easy. 2022.

I'd rather have, I don't know. It's this or Yale Larry. Yale Larry was 5,400. So for the PSA nine. No.

This card's sick. 2017 is a great year too. Yes. It certainly is. And the last card here on MarketWatch dude, I saw absolutely nothing posted about this, so I wanted to talk about it.

We talked about how 2016 isn't our favorite year, but 2016 is the rookie year of Dak Prescott. And his black finite sold in a BGS nine five on Fanatics buy it now best offer for 35 k. Dude, Dak Prescott's very good. And he's one of those players that it's like, man, the situation in Dallas and everything surrounding him, but, like, he is consistently good year over year. And I'm not sure there's a player in the NFL that, you know, he's got he's got the supporting cast too of, like, receivers.

But I don't know. I always envision, like, would would Dak Prescott, like, compete for, like, a Super Bowl if he was anywhere else but Dallas? But, yeah, I saw the sale. And especially on, like, another year where, like, they're missing the playoffs in an underwhelming year. Like, he had a really good year, and it's kinda fun to see.

Like, this wasn't an auction. Like, someone went on the the Fanatics buy it now marketplace and sent an offer, and that offer was for 35 k and ended up winning this. Again, two days after Christmas. Way great way to spend some Christmas money. Honey, guess what I got?

Black Prescott Finite. I do love twenty sixteen black finites. Same. Same. Black the black with the gold is what throws me off, but when it's all black, I do think they look very sharp.

Yeah. Dak, exactly what you said. Would you take take Dak on the Colts? Yeah. I dude, I actually when I saw the sale, I I thought of it.

And and I also just wanna say, like, before the fibula was hurt, like, I I my heart is still with Daniel Jones. And, like, obviously, there's some risk there, but you're gonna get him back probably on a sweetheart deal. But it was when he was healthy, it was all rolling in the right direction. So it would be very hard for me. That that would be I was thinking about that.

I was like, what if, like, Dak Prescott became available? And I was, like, thinking through that in my head, and it it was very attractive in my mind because I think he's a really, really good player. And he's he's like if you look at his stats and what he's done over the last, you know, few years, like, he's just consistent. And he's a he's a dude, he's a great dude. Like, he's got mental health awareness.

He's gone through some you know, there's been some family stuff going on and but he just always seems to be, like, one of the more, like, professional guys. And he's one of the more professional guys in, like, the chaotic world of being the Dallas cowboys quarterback. So I I'm a big fan of Dak Prescott. I think he was one of those guys that maybe there wasn't a ton expected of him coming out of college, and he's just been a very, very consistently good quarterback his entire career. Yep.

Alright. We are collecting updates. What do you got going on? Nothing really. I have not the mail days have slowed.

There's been, like, maybe a random pickup here or there. What did I get recently? Oh, I got 2,000 Bowman, the golds, just like the gold foil parallel, Randy Moss. I got one of those out of 99. I have, like, a binder page full of I've got a Manning.

I've got, Moss. I've got I got a few I got, like, 10 hall of famers now. So that was What what'd you pay for the Moss? $80. Wow.

See, that that That's the win. Yeah. That's like the alright. I can get a cool Randy Moss card, serial number Data99 from 2000, an old like, it checks all the boxes for me. Those cards are fun too.

They don't photograph well or scan well. Like, the gold foil is a little, like, mustardy. I don't know. But in hand, they look cool, and they, like, feel like I don't wanna compare them to PMGs, but it's like, oh, this is, a sensitive card that could chip and is, like again, from that era, year 2000. So, that's a set.

I'm just very nostalgic of the 2000 Bowman set. I opened that as a kid. So, I'd always wanted a moss because, like I said, I have I'm going for hall of famers from that set. So, yeah, that that's that's it for me, though. And that was, like, a couple weeks ago, but it just came in.

But what about you? Anything? I didn't have anything to report up until last night when I won an auction. Do tell if you wanna share. Yeah.

I'll share. Absolutely. So I had given up a card in a consolidation effort, and the this was one of those instances where it was very unlike me, but sometimes you're, like, scrambling for cards when you're trying to cover the cost of something that you're getting. And I knew immediately after it sold, I was like, why did I do that? And then this intensified when the one of one came available and just sold.

And I'll talk about the card. So the card I I won last night was the $20.13 Select Gold Andrew Luck. It's just 95. And it was the best part is it's my old copy. So Nice.

I I sold the old copy maybe midway through the year and want it back. Now I had to pay, I think, probably 200 more dollars for it to recover it. But and by the way, like, when fees and stuff were done on Fanatics, dude, I was like, are you like, I don't wanna ship to my vault. I want it. Then all these fees, I'm like, dude, it's costing me, like, a 100 and buyer's premium.

It's like, man, all this money just to get this freaking card back, but I deserve it because I screwed up. But the you know, when the first of all, I wanna thank everyone who, like, sent me the, poll of the luck one of one. Obviously, I did not get that, but there I got so many tags and messages on that. And so, like, that I knew I messed up when I got rid of the gold and then when that card hit. But there's, like, an opportunity on the other side of, man, the gold's available.

Let me just get this. And, also, like, I had so many people yesterday, the day of when the card was ending, messaged me by, hey. Just making sure you saw this. And the the primary reason why I needed this card was this it was it was all mental, which obviously twenty thirteen selects are pretty. We've talked about them.

But I have the the the Prism Gold luck, which is the first year, rookie, 2012. I've got the the optic gold 2016. Mhmm. And then so I and then I gave away the select. And so I needed it back to just be, like, out of this era, the chromium, I at least have the gold first year of luck in all of those.

And that that was, like, the main thing that was driving me crazy. I was like, how could I when I got rid of it, I was like, how could I do this? And so it was a win back. It was a boomerang card coming back into the PC. Glad to have it.

Nice. Congrats. That card is sick. I was I we never talked about that, but I was wondering, if that was something you'd go for because I knew you had sold one. But and that's the one, like, the pink towel, like, weren't you at that game or something, or is that a different Packers game is rookie year, which they which they won.

So, yeah, it was a I dude, I met we mess up sometimes when you get rid of cards. You get all most of the time, I don't look back in the rearview mirror, but that was a card that was like it was like, dude, you need this back. So I'm glad I got the opportunity, and thank you everyone who was, like, sending it to me yesterday because it was on my mind. It's crazy at my house right now. But, like, when I sat down after my kids were in bed, I had this I had this moment.

It was like, oh, I need to look at the card. And before it went to extended bidding, it was like there was I opened up the app, and there was, like, three minutes left. And I was like, alright, baby. Time to party. And it was one of those instances that my max bid I just put in, like, $6.25 max bid.

And I told myself, I was like, don't go above this. That's what you're bidding. And it, like, went a couple levels or a couple rounds and then but I it was at $6.25, and then it ended, and I had won it. So I was like, plus buyer's premium and all the other stuff. But, yeah, pumped to get it.

Yeah. Extended bidding, man. I've only I recently like, a month ago, I had a extended bidding battle where they won. Like, I went over the number I said I was gonna stop at it going into it because I was like, I'm right here. Like, whatever.

Let's go. And then but it was yeah. It just takes forever. It does take forever. So, yeah, I wasn't expecting to talk about anything, but, yeah, that was the update.

So, yeah, that's what that's what's going on. Congrats. Football card podcast episode 28. We did it. Card call out.

We you've been nailing these. The coach card call out, that was awesome. Love you. I enjoyed that. People came out in droves with the coaches coach cards.

That was fun to see. And then, yeah, this week, I like what you put down here. Heal cards, ownership of a card of a player you can't stand, but for some reason, you need their card. That's that's inter does it have to be someone like I can't stand? Can it be, maybe someone I don't like, I don't know.

I guess because An example an example for you, if this were you and I I is if, like, because maybe you were collecting a certain set and you needed an Aaron Rodgers card to fill that Mhmm. Decided to buy an Aaron Rodgers card even though, like, you don't like Aaron Rodgers because he's, like, arrival of the bears. So something like that. Okay. That's what I'm thinking.

Got it. Got it. Got it. I was like because the first person I thought of was Chris Conte, and I was like, I just will never own a Chris Conte card. Like, I they won't won't happen or Vanderjak for you.

Like, do you have any Vanderjak cards? No. No. No. No.

No. But but, yeah, my the catalyst for for everyone, in my this all started basically in my brain is, like, like, the ownership of, like, a Tom Brady or a Ty Law or, like, a rival player that, like but also, like, there's some fondness in buying one of their cards because there's connection through the rivalry. But it's open to interpretation. However, people wanna do it, I I'm I'm I'm we're okay with it, but that's how it's Yeah. Shaking out for me.

No. I like this. Heal cards. That's good. Let's see them.

Heal cards. And, yes, bonus points if you include reasonings why a story, parlay it, connect it to something. Always looking to give out bonus points here to the loyal listeners of the football card podcast. Thank you all for listening, and we'll see you next week.