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.

My memory of this card is I picked it up at a show that I drove a bit too far to and it was full of non-sports stuff. I happened to spot this from a gent sitting off to the side and thought it was interesting enough to grab. I think Joe Burrow could have a career season this year and he has most of the offensive weapons to do so…

Talk about a guy that could have a season. He’s back from last year’s injury-challenged season with the #1 receiver in Ja’Marr Chase along with WR2 Tee Higgins and running back Chase Brown. As well as rookie stand-out Colbie Young…can JB get the Bengals back into contention this season?

Picked this one up as part of a deal on a pair of auto rookie cards. It was a piece brought into the deal to help close it when I wanted a 2020 Panini Flawless on-card, hard-signed auto.

2020 Panini Playoff #201 Red Zone Parallel RC Auto

Card show find this weekend. Picked this up with another Joey B RC auto card…had been on my list for a long time. Ironically I thought I was looking for some vintage Brady stuff and got shut out of the card I wanted and was heading out when I found the Burrow RPA. Worked out a pretty quick deal with a nice gent to get it done. Sweet looking card that is going in the PC.