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g any info about the relic piece virtually makes it nothing more than a base card to collectors i can tell you it is not even a matter of having it dated and labelled to the specific game it was a plea from collectors to assure that it is real and that it indeed came from an event that they can pin it down to the language currently on the back of their cards is so vague it could ve come off the rack at marshall s for all we know i usually don t chime in at this event i like to people watch but here i did say something i simply said show collectors you care and change the language and then we will care about the relic cards again hands down my favorite moment of the meet greet was when one of our favorite collectors spoke up this man is singly responsible for one of my favorite national moments to us he is known as santa claus guy several years back we were discussing the art i use that term loosely of including a santa card into a product and how it expanded to using memorabilia and autographs of st nick in products this guy literally runs up to our booth and starts going off about how he collects santa and it created a moment we ll never forget we thought so much of it that we actually brought santa claus to the national the very next year it was funny to see him this many years later still pulling for more santa cards maybe a santa claus and rally squirrel dual card is in the mix just so you know i find a lot of things funny in this industry however this guy is a die hard so here is something to think about one of the problems i have with santa cards is that they aren t legit you know why and i am not going to spell it out but what if instead of santa being on a card by himself he was part of an insert or box set with other people i d actually be into giving my kids a card of anthony rizzo with santa or lebron james with santa make them all horizontal cards with dual autos or dual relic perhaps a holiday in store promotion like black friday then all of those santa hat cards could have some purpose friday was going to be an extra busy day things kicked off at 10am and ran through 5pm the only real gap was a hour at 3pm we got to see finest box breaks bighurt35 and more there was some excitement for the upper deck break because they opened the first cases of exquisite golf that was something to see truly some of the most impressive cards come from exquisite the designs are unlike any other company s cards that has always set upper deck apart from the rest of the pack this was no exception we saw on card autos of nancy lopez arnold palmer and a dual cheyenne and tiger woods uds chris carlin said on the stage that the cases he sent over were ripped off by ups he worked with dave adams to make sure he would have the product for the break and they came through lots of ooohs and ahhhs during this one i had a chance to roam the floor a little more on friday and picked up five boxes of wwe heritage hobby boxes for 20 a piece at that price i decided i would put together a master set i am pretty close actually just missing 10 inserts so that was pretty cool by evening time we had a couple of options and weren t sure what we were going to do there were a couple of parties and we just wanted to go check out the city and maybe catch a ballgame we wound up going to the hard rock cafe for the peach state event and man was it ever worth it we got to really chat with some of the people we had been working with over the past few days and see them outside of the case breaker pavilion that s always good to get a feel for what people are like we were eating when we looked up to see jose canseco walking in behind him were some panini america representatives and former nba great mark aguirre that was an awesome surprise i know a lot of people railed on jose when he wrote his books not me i thought he did the right thing he told the truth and sometimes the truth hurts i told him that then and i thanked him for it tonight i also told him a funny story about how when my daughter met him in 2001 at the big league challenge in las vegas she was 5 and i was waiting for a couple people at the signing booth for upper deck he saw her and said hey princess would you like an autograph it turned into more than one and i will never forget that he was awesome then and on this night he was still a good guy when i told him the story he asked to see a photo and i said she s 18 now he deadpanned damn i m old i told him man you still look amazing and i just wanted to say thanks for being genuine you earned a fan for life mark aquirre was equally nice i watched him play often for some of the most amazing detroit pistons teams during the 80s and 90s i love surprises well good ones at least and this was truly a surprise i had thought we were just going to enjoy a dinner with friends but peach state and panini america raised the bar while everyone in the hard rock razed the bar here we were 4 days in and the energy level was high and the memories kept coming more to come posted by unknown at 5 50 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday august 6 2014 35th national sports collectors convention recap part 3 of i woke up thursday feeling pretty good i was really happy to have spent some quality time with my co workers and friends rob david russ and ryan each one of those guys just absolutely blew my mind this past week with their ability to just completely adapt to whatever was happening on the amazon com sports collectibles main stage we did trivia raffles and told some funny stories in between and during case breaks to entertain trust me its not easy but it was fun we met so many great people in this segment of the show i mentioned scott bateson earlier and he was stellar but i was completely humbled meeting joey and his friendly box breaks crew they were seriously some of the most polite people in the building it was fun sitting in with them for awhile on a break they did later in the week of benchwarmer sir it was an honor david and jason from finest box breaks were also top notch guys that happened to be from long island ny the same town in fact that i would visit 3 4 times a year when i was a kid to see my dad s side of the family small world david gelfman s group that includes bryan fillmore and paul milazzo were also just troopers breaking all week long abby and grizz from the breakking com were also right next to us and we all became friends throughout the week to our right was someone i ve known now for two or three years but ironically he has never been on cardboard connection radio for one reason or another that was rich layton of layton sports cards let me tell you something as i watched through the week i saw a change in him we had an amazing week i know he has stories that he ll never forget and that his breaks were very successful you should have seen him during the kids break he was beaming while watching him teasing the kids for packs and hits it was another moment i just felt that we had made the right decision to work with this group it took me 2 years to find out he s from south jersey another place i lived for a long time i can tell you that we are going to have fun in 2016 if the show remains in atlantic city we finally sat down with rich for an interview and you can hear it right here you could see that a lot of the people in the pavilion had no clue what to expect neither did we it could have been a giant cluster but it was nothing of the sort in fact there was an area dedicated to breakers that weren t even a part of the show if one came in and decided he she wanted to break they had a place to do it that area wasn t dead it wasn t supposed to be filled unless breakers came in and claimed a spot on the fly with 40 already part of the inaugural event i think it is safe to say that many of the best were there already it was a place to offer an olive branch to someone that was on the fence about participating i wish people would actually ask some questions when they pretend to be so called reporters instead of sneaking around or making asinine comments do a little research it could benefit you long term these breakers were protecting their business working to expand their business and brought their a game to make sure that breaking was represented at and by its best i applaud them all for working together to make the event a success early signs show it will return in chicago and be even larger in scale i had to leave the show for awhile on this day but boy was it worth it panini america had put together a lunch for a huge announcement they planned on making it wasn t much of a secret at this point they were going to announce that they signed an exclusive partnership with the nflpa i wanna take you back in time again my very first event that i ever attended as media was one of the most outstanding events of my life russ and i were the guests of donruss playoff s tracy hackler and taylor pennington the event was in washington and it was called unsung heroes a young brian urlacher was the star of the event and i got to meet karen bush austin pam oliver and many other nfl greats i can remember randy cook did his podcast from the show i knew then that was what i had wanted to strive for i wanted it to be us at those events i wanted to make sure our name was synonymous with any event that involved trading cards i am still trying to do that anyway even then you could see that the texas based company put their heart and soul into the relationship they transcended trading cards and put their stamp on things outside the box they gave a crap about that too it showed they did charity events they provided things for kids and families and they went way out their way to build a bond with fans of the nfl now if i noticed that several years ago you can bet that a decade later the nflpa noticed it too you can say its all about the money and of course that s a huge part of it but any good relationship begins with good will and it continues to grow because you pay attention to the relationship you don t just take it for granted trust me on that so here we were in the room with a lot of our industry peers and the vibe was unreal i felt a great sense of pride for my friends they all worked their collective asses off for this to happen let s be honest topps locked up baseball ud hockey and panini already had basketball so why not go after football you can say baseball is america s pastime all you want but football dominates the ratings it is the most popular american sport if i was a maker of trading cards i d want my name attached to the game that can get as many people watching their commercials as they do the actual game i went to sit down with ryan and we met up with our buddy kelsey from espns mint condition kelsey himself looks like he could put on some pads and hit the turf he s a big dude but as friendly as can be love sharing stories with him he did me a huge favor so i owe him one as i turn around to scope the room about 40 kids from a local pop warner team sit down these kids were pumped up they didn t know what was going on but that something cool was about to happen as they sat down super bowl winning qb and nfl analyst trent dilfer walked in now trent is a cool guy and an awesome tv analyst but he went above and beyond the scope of anything i thought was going to happen on this day he personally introduced himself to every single on of the kids and asked them what position they played he genuinely took an interest in their comments and excitement he also won over just about anyone over the age of 12 with his actions i don t even know where to start on the highlight reel list from this event it was actually difficult to keep my composure for some of it because i was legitimately surprised by some of the things that took place no not the announcement itself but other more tangible things ok so how about this for instance we re eating and then hall of famer anthony munoz enters the room and sits right next to us i watched this guy every sunday like clockwork he was a living monster at 6 6 during his playing days and here he was sharing his stories about collecting with us he was so nice a truly awesome representative of the football hall he also got to comment on how he d deal with up and comers like jadeveon clowney trent dilfer and jason howarth did analysis on the top rookies in the draft trent likes to compare athletes to cars so we saw some jaguars porsches and rolls royces thankfully no jalopies dilfer was high on the raiders qb derek carr and also noted that johnny football if he can slow down to even 2nd or 3rd gear can be a player speaking of johnny you read a lot of crap in the news true or not true you never hear enough good things about people critical headline grabbing sensationalism sells that doesn t work for me negativity breeds negativity i don t live on a cloud or in a closet but i can tell you that my life is pretty damn good so that said here s a great johnny football story remember the kids i told you about panini and johnny manziel awarded a helmet equipment grant to pop warner s northeast ohio pop warner association the team got up and held this giant check they had been to two pop warner super bowls and come up short they are hoping for a chance to make a third appearance in the big game they were ready to play right there in the hotel ballroom in fact if they do something like this again i say a little scrimmage would be a blast panini america ceo mark warsop also spoke about the partnership and what it means for panini he is thinking outside the box and he said that this deal gives them the ability to do things they couldn t before i am curious to see how they shape my personal favorite category in this industry they haven t let me down yet in just the past few years they ve improved designs improved content and if they can move away from stickers and bring in some new brands to fill up the schedule i am confident more great things are ahead kind of makes you wonder though if they might look to fill some of those holes with some already established brands or products only time will tell i know some people live and die by topps but hey they have baseball right why can t panini have football after lunch i finally got to meet someone i d wanted to speak with for a long time mr keith gordon of the nflpa i told him the story of how it was fun to watch this relationship grow all those years ago he was very proud of the partnership and said some wonderful things about panini we feel very confident in panini america s ability to deliver quality and value to consumers at all levels while providing long term stability to the football trading card category said nflpi president keith gordon significant investments in product innovation quality authenticity and creative player marketing have endeared panini to the existing fan base while actively cultivating the next generation of col...