Good morning Mantel….glad to be back.

I picked up some interesting cards over the weekend, mostly TB12 stuff for the PC. However, worked a deal with one nice gent and had this put into it at the last minute. Just started in collecting Larry Fitzgerald and Randy Moss and this has a population, as of now, of only 1.

Larry Fitzgerald constructed a legendary 17-season career with the Arizona Cardinals, retiring with 1,432 receptions, 17,492 receiving yards, and 121 touchdowns in the regular season, while elevating his legacy in 9 postseason games with an additional 57 catches, 942 yards, and 10 scores.

This card is a 2018 Panini Absolute Football Spectrum Silver #2 PSA 9 with a serial number 30/99

Hoping for a strong follow-up from Drake Maye this weekend. It’s the home opener in Foxboro at Gillette and he’s due. What will the receiving corps look like with AJ Brown down for the count and Romeo Doubs looking to redeem himself? See you Sunday…

This one is from the PC and is one of the many unique Drake Maye cards that I have collected over the past few years.

2024 Topps Chrome #203 Negative Refractor PSA 10 GEM with a Pop of 29

Ended up in NYC visiting my daughter and hit a small card show on my way out of town. It was a lot of Pokémon stuff - def not my thing - but I bumped into a gent named Michael who I worked a deal out with for a couple of great Prizms…Joey B and Gronk.

Football is back. And Burrow had himself a game Sunday. Hopefully Drake and the boys will get their act together given the tough start in Seattle.

Meanwhile, the cards are:

2020 Panini Lazer Prizm #307 Burrow Rookie PSA

2023 Donruss Optic Ice #132 Gronk /15 PSA 10

The Gronk card has a low Pop of just 4 GEMs out of a total of 5 PSA-graded cards. While only about a third of the population of the Burrow Prizm actually GEM.

The first official Sunday of the new NFL season is finally here! 🏈🔥

To celebrate kickoff, posting a cool pickup I got at a card show in NYC yesterday: a 2023 Donruss Optic Ice Rob Gronkowski (#132).

This piece is graded a pristine PSA 10 Gem Mint (Cert #103342445) and is serial-numbered 10/15. The Ice parallel pattern totally sets off the classic Patriots uniform perfectly.

While he’ll be on air today and is retired, don’t forget Gronk's career stats:

• 621 receptions

• 9,286 receiving yards

• 92 total touchdowns

• 79 touchdowns with New England (the most by any player during his nine seasons there)

Nothing beats the energy of NFL Sunday. Best of luck to everyone's teams today! I’m still smarting from the Wednesday game, but Drake and crew will be back…

Let’s see what Drake and company have got. Tough matchup with Seattle in a Super Bowl repeat. Does New England have enough depth? What impact will AJ Brown have? Here…we…go.

This is from the PC - 2024 Allen + Ginter Drake Maye Rookie Auto PSA/DNA 10 and /10 serialed…

🏈🔥 is back!!

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