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What's Buzzing Today: 2016 Bowman, Kenta Maeda, the NFL Draft & no more Topps football cards ... so now what?

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Jared Goff is your No. 1 pick in the 2016 NFL Draft and Panini America has revealed his first football card online to be found on its Gridiron digital card app soon.

Buzz will add all players drafted to this thread as the first round goes on just so you can see them all in one spot on samples of their real cardboard already available.

Buzz also will offer his take on the player's place, too, in a real-time recap.

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Future Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning had a habit of sorts through the years that a collector just might find interesting -- and now it's part of a viral video ad campaign and tribute to the former Vols, Colts and Broncos signal-caller.

His habit? He writes letters.

ESPN reporter Chris Mortensen takes a moment to discuss his letter from Manning as he battles cancer. Pam Frenzel recaps the moments her late son shared with the QB. Manning's past coaches recap moments that prompted correspondence. His family members, his teammates and others also revisit their moments via Gatorade's series of videos.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big maildays, 2016 Bowman, 2016 Score & what's an RC?

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The arrival of 2016 Score football cards on Wednesday marks the start of the NFL card season and a new landscape for the league when it comes to cardboard.

None of this year's rookies have been drafted yet -- that starts on Thursday night -- so they're found in their college colors as part of the product, which includes four autographs or memorabilia cards in every jumbo box. 

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This year's NFL Draft begins tomorrow night in Chicago, but Panini America has been busy at work the last couple of days signing plenty of players.

And it didn't even have to trade a single pick.

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What: 2016 Panini Gala football cards
Arrives: July 20
Box basics: Four autographs or memorabilia cards and one base card per five-card box (eight boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Gala comes to the gridiron with the same formula seen with basketball -- the most-notable trait being short-printed Rookie Cards limited to only eight copies.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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If you're a long-time reader of The Buzz, you may remember the Steiner Sports promotion that allowed anybody, anywhere to trade in a legit Cleveland Browns quarterback autograph from the past for a $100 gift card.

Buzz's headline back in January played up the Johnny Manziel drama -- sadly, it's derailed completely since then -- and but opted to take a shot here with a cheaper auto. Buzz picked off a Connor Shaw 2014 Panini Contenders autograph from COMC.com for just $1.99, had it delivered, followed the instructions from Steiner and mailed it in.

Buzz waited but never received a gift card -- as it turns out, Steiner had so many requests as part of the promotion that it ran out of physical gift cards to mail. (Those still waiting should email the company with their info and address they used when they mailed in their Browns item.) After getting the discount info, Buzz waited again to find a key item to use the code. Today was the day as Buzz spent a few minutes to check out the site after a promotional email, wondering if a worthy item could be found and searching the game-used section, entertainment section and even the clearance rack for the right item.

And then Buzz found it.

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What: 2016 Panini Clear Vision football cards
Arrives: July 13
Box basics: One autograph or memorabilia card per six-pack box (18 boxes per case via two nine-box inners)

What's buzz-worthy: The all-acetate show that is Clear Vision returns with four autographs per 18-box case (twice as many as last year) in a product where all hits are limited to no more than 99 copies.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Museum Collection, big NFL pulls, Bill Gates' money, Mickey Mantle's RC & more.

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The recent arrival of 2015 Panini Flawless football cards marked a new wave of high-end cards for fans to consider and a new wave of impressive possibilities for autographs and dazzling memorabilia displayed within cardboard.

Sometimes it's simple, sometimes it's not.

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She's an NFL pioneer as the league's first female coach, and she'll have her first certified autographs in an upcoming Topps baseball card set.

She's Dr. Jennifer Welter and her autographs will be found in 2016 Topps Allen & Ginter when it arrives on July 20.

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With the clock ticking down to this year's edition of the NFL Draft, Panini America is readying its cardboard efforts made just for the event and the interactive sideshow that has become Draft Town.

The company has produced a 10-card set and a 5-by-7 set of three cards that also can be obtained at the event.

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What: 2016 Donruss Elite football cards
Arrives: June 29
Box basics: Two autographs and one memorabilia card per 20-pack box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: On-card autographs will be found in every box while prime materials will have a strong presence here within a new-look take on a hobby staple.

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It's a low-grade specimen of the most-iconic and expensive baseball card of all time and it's leading off the action as lot No. 1 in the current Robert Edward Auctions sale.

With 10 days remaining in the company's spring sale, theSGC 10 (Poor 1) Sweet Caporal T206 Honus Wagner already has attracted 29 bids after an opening bid of $50,000.

What's it at now?

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The headline says it all for 2016 SAGE Autographed football cards.

SAGE revealed on Tuesday that it is "adding broader content" while noting that all of the base cards are now printed on premium stock and that there will be 24 standard autographed cards and at least one dual autographed card in every box of this hobby-only brand set to arrive on May 25.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big breaks from ITG, WWE and UFC along with debating Joe Namath and custom card autographs.

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It's been 39 years since Joe Namath last suited up for an NFL game, but his 1965 Topps Rookie Card remains an iconic one and is among the most-valuable RCs out there.

And a high-grade specimen on eBay right now is going to prove it when the auction ends.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Showing off hot new cards and old cheap favorites and then a mess of over-delivering wax and odd surprises.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: The Michigan Wolverines, best steals, big breaks in football and a big non-sport break, too.

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The current SCP Auctions sale includes items from the personal collections of Baseball Hall of Famer Don Drysdale and collections of memorabilia that include plenty of other big names, but it's a selection of championship rings here that's highlight-worthy.

Below is a gallery of 18 rings up for sale now and ending on April 23. Click below to enter the gallery, get a closer look, see who's owned them and what the bidding sits at now.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls dominate this all-breaks edition of Board Buzz with Topps Heritage, Museum Collection, Panini Contenders Draft and more found inside.

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Like many collectors, Buzz is a fan of grading and knows that there are many reasons that collectors choose to slab cards. Sometimes it's to enhance the appeal and protect them when selling. Other times it's to protect an investment for the long-term or to protect for sentimental reasons. Or, it might be just for fun or curiosity about a potential grade.

Here's the fourth grading diary here on The Buzz ...

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What: 2016 Leaf Trinity football cards
Arrives: Late May
Box basics: Five autographs per box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf offers "the introduction of Clear technology autographed cards with the goal of improving the overall card grade quality for its customers" in this one while including the biggest autographs from players in the NFL Draft. It's also the final Leaf draft picks release of the year.

Keep reading for more.

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The new crop of NFL hopefuls are here and Panini America's first college release with all of those future stars in their school colors can be found in 2016 Panini Contenders Draft Picks.

And just like last year's rookie season for this brand -- and the past NFL Contenders releases -- there are plenty of short-prints, which Panini has detailed.

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