Midas Touch: Playoff Contenders Golden Tickets Generating Big Buzz, Bigger Sales
It's been one week since 2010 Playoff Contenders Football hit the streets packing more product-of-the-year potential than any sports trading card release in recent memory. Despite the considerable buzz generated by Contenders' ballyhooed Rookie Ticket variations and the mystery surrounding their respective quantities, the real shining element in the product has been, well, the ultimate shining element: Redemptions good for…
Updated 2010 Playoff Contenders Golden Ticket Tracker: Who, Where & How Much
It’s no secret by now that the pioneering Golden Ticket redemption treasures buried randomly in packs of 2010 Playoff Contenders Football have created a frenzied collecting buzz across America since the first one hit the market Wednesday night. Every card pulled is nothing short of an industry-wide event, complete with the staggering auction prices to prove it. (more…)
2010 Playoff Contenders Golden Ticket Tracker: Who, Where & How Much
It's no secret by now that the pioneering Golden Ticket redemption treasures buried randomly in packs of 2010 Playoff Contenders Football have created a frenzied collecting buzz across America since the first one hit the market Wednesday night. Every card pulled is nothing short of an industry-wide event, complete with the staggering auction prices to prove it. (more…)
Gold Rush: Dallas Collector Becomes First to Claim Playoff Contenders Golden Ticket
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksmdbGeU048&w=480&h=390] Dallas-area collector Michael Keller struck gold Wednesday night, literally, when he pulled a Golden Ticket solid-gold redemption card from a pack of 2010 Playoff Contenders Football. First thing Thursday morning, Keller made the 20-mile trek to Panini America corporate headquarters to become the first collector in the world to take possession of his solid-gold gem featuring New York Jets…
Texas Collector Michael Keller Strikes First Gold, Claims Mark Sanchez Golden Ticket
Longtime collector Michael Keller became the first person in the country to claim one of the 52 Golden Ticket 14-karat gold trading cards seeded in 2010 Playoff Contenders Football when he visited Panini America headquarters Thursday morning. Keller, who lives in Lewisville, Texas, pulled the Mark Sanchez Golden Ticket redemption card during a group break of Playoff Contenders at SMP Sportscards in Grapevine, Texas,…