With these Ticket Stud or Ticket Dud stories I'm turning just a tiny bit of that energy just a few degrees away from cards (we'll still have plenty of them here) for a different kind of cardboard. What am I doing? Simple ... this is an occasional dip into some random ticket lots -- a show and tell showing something small with a story.

This time? A preseason game from a decade ago ... what could have changed since then?

Keep reading to see the details this time ... and tell me if you think it's a Ticket Stud or a Ticket Dud.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2011 Press Pass Legends football cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 18
Cards per pack: 5
Cards in this box: 91
Base set completion: 
73 of 100 (73 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Mark Ingram, Julio Jones, A.J. Green, J.J. Watt, Von Miller, Colin Kaepernick, Randall Cobb, Andy Dalton, Cam Newton, Bo Jackson, Dan Hampton, Karl Mecklenburg, Ickey Woods, Antonio Freeman, Jim Plunkett, Hines Ward, Michael Irvin, Ed McCaffrey, Cris Carter, Gino Cappelletti, Jim Otto, Bob Griese, Dan Marino, Warren Sapp, Johnny Rodgers, Willie Davis, Mike Rozier, Major Harris, Dick LeBeau, Franco Harris

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and break down the results here. Like this and want to see more -- or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2015 Topps Chrome NFL (Relic blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

Packs per box: 8 (seven standard, one Relic)
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 29
Base set completion: 
18 of 200 (9 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards: Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees, Tony Romo, Teddy Bridgewater, Jason Witten, Philip Rivers, Colin Kaepernick, Jimmy Graham

Rookie Cards (7) – Brett Hundley, Leonard Williams, Josh Harper, Tyler Lockett, Duke Johsnon, Matt Jones, Jalen Collins

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Sometimes they just want a unique autograph.

Some vintage collectors out there may have a little bit of everything, which leaves them searching for unique pieces once they have all of the basics from when a past player was on the field. Sure, there are countless new cardboard creations for icons like Mickey Mantle, but this piece on the auction block from Steiner Sports is a bit different than the typical Mantle autograph.

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If you hadn't noticed, there are a number of boxes with discounted prices now over on the mothership as BlowoutCards.com's Black November Wave 7 hits today.

Many of the discounts were dramatic enough that Buzz had to sit down and ponder the possibilities in many of the boxes and cases -- and here are five boxes that caught this collector’s eye.

2013 Panini Prizm Perennial Draft Picks baseball hobby box
Every box of this one includes four autographs, three inserts and six Prizm parallels -- that's not a lot and Panini America added more in subsequent Prizm releases but there are a couple of names that make this box notable at its reduced price. They are Kris Bryant and Mookie Betts and both of those MVP candidates can be found within the Prizm rainbow of autographs here. Others of note within these packs? Carlos Correa, Joc Pederson, Clint Frazier, Byron Buxton, Clint Frazier, Maikel Franco, Jose Abreu and Aaron Judge. The right rare shade here could be easy profits based on the box prices.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2015 Donruss football cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

Packs per box: 7
Cards per pack: 8
Cards in this box: 56
Base set completion: 
44 of 185 (24 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Terrell Davis, Odell Beckham Jr., Lawrence Taylor, Eli Manning, Julio Jones, Michael Irvin, Larry Fitzgerald

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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: Jason Crosby's Garbage Pail Kids sketches, Dak Prescott and Panini Origins, Diamond Kings, Colin Kaepernick and Mike Trout vs. Ted Williams.

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First Peyton Manning, now Brock Osweiler.

The Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos have lost their second quarterback this week as Osweiler will be joining the Houston Texans, according to the NFL Network. It will be a four-year deal for $72 million -- a risk the Broncos apparently weren't willing to take.

Of all the moves agreed to and to come as a new season officially begins today, this and perhaps the DeMarco Murray trade have some hobby potential. Many others, though, don't figure to matter much on cardboard. Heck, some of the big names signing with new teams -- Malik Jackson, for example -- don't even have cards.

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The newest wave of Pop! Football figures arrives in December from Funko with one of the NFL's biggest defensive stars sporting one of the littlest iconic details.

Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt comes with a bloodied and bandaged nose.

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