Every time my daughter goes out shopping with my in-laws, she somehow finds her way back home with a new football card for me. It’s become this quiet little tradition between us — nothing planned, just something she does because she knows how much I love collecting. This weekend she brought me home this 2024 Donruss Optic Blue Stars Joe Burrow from a local festival.

Those cards have quickly become my favorites in the whole collection. Not because of the player or the value, but because of what they represent — her thinking of me in that small moment.

It’s funny how the things that end up meaning the most usually aren’t the rare ones or the expensive ones… they’re the ones that come from the heart.