If soccer ends for Raiders linebacker Blake Martinez, he’s received one other profession already plotted out for him.
According to the New York Post, Martinez bought one in every of his Pokemon playing cards for $672K over the weekend at an public sale. If you’re questioning who would purchase a Pokemon card for $672K, sure I’d if I had cash like that.
It wasn’t simply your run of the mill Snorlax, both. This was a 1998 Pokemon Illustrator Pikachu card that is likely one of the rarest Pokemon playing cards recognized in existence. The Illustrator Pikachu card was estimated to be price $1.5 million, and the Goldin Auction House rated the cardboard as a 9.5 on their scale, making it one of many larger high quality playing cards they’ve seen.
Last 12 months, ESPN reported that Martinez has been an avid Pokemon card collector since he was a toddler, and talked about Pokemon with Giants DL Leonard Williams.
It will get higher from there.
40,000 Pokemon playing cards is solely the good factor an NFL participant has mentioned or completed since Jamaal Williams talked about anime on Good Morning Football. NFL gamers being large nerds won’t ever not be superior to me (additionally an enormous nerd). Eventually, diving deep into sports activities’ nerdom will get completed.
Now I’ve a whole bunch of questions I need to ask Martinez. What’s his starter Pokemon? Which Pokemon recreation is his favourite? Why is Incineroar the most effective Pokemon ever? Have you actually performed and crushed each Pokemon recreation ever launched because you had been six? Because if he has, please educate me your methods.
Martinez at the moment owns a enterprise that sells a number of the 40,000 Pokemon playing cards that he owns, and based on The Athletic’s Vic Tafur, he’s made $2 million within the final 4 months. That’s a prospering enterprise if I ever heard of 1.
Martinez doesn’t say if he’s a purchaser of Pokemon playing cards both, however I wouldn’t put it previous him. He says his objective is to acquire each Pokemon card ever made and will need to open up his personal Pokemon store himself.