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Where were you when Vince Young beat USC in the Rose Bowl? Pack Nicholson remembers watching from a friend’s basement. Brett streamed the game in the middle of the night from a hostel in Barcelona. Twenty years later, Young’s 2006 Topps Chrome rookie Superfractor auto 1/1 sold for $5,850. Both of them went right back to that night.
In Episode 73 of The Football Card Podcast, Pack and Brett get into why that card still matters, why Joe Burrow’s card prices have fallen while he’s putting together an MVP case, and what they think of the NFL Premier Patches in 2026 Topps Chrome Football.
They also debate which Panini inserts will hold up and compare an $8,100 Justin Herbert All Kings 1/1 with a $4,800 Patrick Mahomes National Treasures Platinum 1/1.
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If a 1/1 you’re watching sells tonight, what will you wish you’d done?
I asked myself that before I spent $675 on a 2005 Topps Turkey Red Philip Rivers Wood Border 1/1. In episode two of One of One, I get into what the checklist taught me about that card and why a photo of Tyrese Haliburton in a headband mattered to me when his Flawless Platinum 1/1 came up for auction.
I also look at the Connor McDavid Gold PMG 1/1 that went from $12,189 to $30,000 in less than five months, and the $12,000 Joe Montana Prizm Black Finite 1/1 that made me think about the rules we set around cards made after a player retires.

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A set comes out. For a week, it’s all the hobby talks about. Months later, someone is looking for the card that finishes their rainbow. Who’s making something for that collector?
On this flagship episode of Stacking Slabs, I talk about what gives collectors a reason to come back. I share what I saw when nearly 400 people came to the Wrestling Card Takeover at the National, why I want to hear what a collector sold to buy a Priest Holmes Superfractor, and what happens when a friend sends you a card you didn’t know existed.
It’s a conversation about why I’m building shows around the cards you collect and what that’s taught me about growth in the hobby.

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Katelyn and Mark each draft five WNBA card inserts. Katelyn opens with Impeccable Timeless Moments autographs. Mark answers with Select Color Wheel and Prizm Color Blast. Then 1997 Pinnacle My Town comes off the board before Mark can take it.
Along the way, they talk about what makes an insert worth collecting, why Mark would build a binder page of Prizm Kaleidoscopic, and what collectors miss when case hits get most of the attention.

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Steve Summers introduced his son Nick to collecting by opening packs together. Today, they’re building Sports Cards Grading as a family.
In this episode of Passion to Profession, Steve and Nick join Brett to talk about turning their connection through cards into a business on eBay Live. They discuss Nick’s decision to leave his job, the work behind 50,000 auctions in 2026, and why knowing what someone collects changes how they serve them.
They know the teams their buyers follow. They know their children’s names. And they buy cards at shows with those collectors in mind.
It’s a conversation about building a business around the people who keep showing up.
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