If you hadn’t noticed, there are a number of boxes with discounted prices this weekend as part of a 64-hour flash sale over on the mothership and they were dramatic enough that Buzz had to sit down and ponder the possibilities in many of them.

So much so here are five boxes that caught this collector’s eye.

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What: 2016 Panini Phoenix football cards
Arrives: Oct. 19
Box basics: Three autograph or memorabilia cards per 12-pack box (16 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: A new brand for NFL collectors that Panini says "is sure to catch fire" features players from the past and present with nine inserts and six rookies per box atop the base cards and hits.

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What: 2016 Leaf Autographed Football Helmets
Arrives: October
Box basics: One autographed full-sized helmet per box (three boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf offers "the return of one of the most popular and innovative packaged memorabilia items of all time" with every box yielding either a Hall of Famer, current NFL star or rookie, past stars and even "a few more 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: 2016 Topps Chrome, Panini VIP packs, vintage cards and the NFL is back.

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What: 2016 Panini Playbook football cards
Arrives: Oct. 5
Box basics: One autograph or memorabilia booklet, one autograph or memorabilia card per three-card box (15 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: The formula of last year returns with a new crop of rookies and plenty of booklet-based potential and some new touches.

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What: 2016 Panini Impeccable football cards
Arrives: Sept. 28
Box basics: Five autographs per eight-card box (three boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: A new high-end NFL brand arrives with a number of autographs per box from "a diverse autograph checklist of past, present and future stars with several on-card autograph inserts that focus on retired and Hall of Fame players."

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This year's Pro Football Hall of Fame class has taken its place in Canton, Ohio, and the legends have found their new homes.

It's not just in the museum -- it's on new Panini America cardboard.

The NFL's official football card licensee was on hand in Canton and made a pair of promotional sets for the new class of legends as well as cards for the Hall of Fame Game that was cancelled.

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One of ESPN's longest-running on-air talents and a memorable voice for countless sports moments has been silenced as John Saunders has died. He was 61.

The Canadian was a junior hockey All-Star and played one game at Western Michigan before a career in broadcasting that began in 1978. He joined ESPN in December 1986 where he had worked ever since as a SportsCenter anchor, studio host and the lead for shows such as The Sports Reporters.

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Tomorrow's the day that 2016 Panini Unparalleled football cards arrive and, despite its name, it's a brand that's chock-full of parallels that probably will prompt collectors to try and decipher what's what.

Panini America is helping with that.

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Now that the National Sports Collectors Convention is completed for today, the spotlight selectively turns to this year's Panini VIP Party, which will include some big-name guests, big-name signers and some big-name cardboard.

Black boxes, Gold packs, autographs and more are the mementos of the event, but the memories are made with the interactions between the collectors and the stars.

We'll help take you behind the rope virtually right here with a gallery of images from tonight's event.

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This year's Pro Football Hall of Fame class gets its gold jackets tonight in Canton, Ohio, and the Hall of Fame store has the simplest way to start a collection of the newest football greats.

That's the Goal Line Art set.

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LT is a VIP.

Former New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor is the latest guest for the Panini America VIP Party that's set for Saturday night in Atlantic City, N.J. He's the fifth guest revealed by the company and only one announced (so far) on Friday.

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The 37th National Sports Collectors Convention is nearly here and, while Atlantic City, N.J., will be the center of the collecting universe, we have to note that the BlowoutCards.com booth (No. 1,220) will be the epicenter of the show at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Why?

Well, some of those boxes -- and cases -- in our 18 pallets of stuff out on the show floor are part of the largest Blowout giveaways yet in our history at the show. (And show veterans should already know how big they've been in the past ... this time we're stealing the show.)

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What: 2016 Panini Spectra football cards
Arrives: Sept. 14
Box basics: Four autographs and seven memorabilia cards per four-pack box (eight boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: The high-end Prizmatic rainbow with plenty of autographs and memorabilia returns once again with plenty of what collectors expect from the brand and some new touches that up the ante as well.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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There's a chance you'll be seeing more of Brennan Williams on cardboard and on TV -- but that's potentially a long ways away.

And it probably won't be with that name, either.

World Wrestling Entertainment announced a new signee for its developmental ranks on Monday and it's Williams, who is a former third-round draft pick who spent time on the sidelines and the practice squad. He'll join the NXT hopefuls at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Fla.

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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: 2016 Panini football cards
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for blasters) 

Packs per box: 24
Cards per pack: 10
Cards in this box: 240
Base set completion: 
144 of 200 (72 percent)
Duplicates: 0

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When 2016 Donruss football cards arrive on Wednesday from Panini America, its packs will include a return of Fans of the Game -- a set that has brought plenty of star power to football cards as well as other sports.

This year's batch includes celebs as well as a pair of Peyton Manning tribute sets -- and each of them can be found with autographs, too.

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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: 2016 Panini Clear Vision football cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 6
Cards per pack: 3
Cards in this box: 18
Base set completion: 
12 of 100 (12 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Players found on base cards – Carson Palmer, Joe Flacco, Luke Kuechly, Joe Haden, Peyton Manning, J.J. Watt, Adrian Peterson, Mark Ingram, Jerry Rice, Kurt Warner, Terry Bradshaw, Joe Montana

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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: 2016 Panini Certified football cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 10
Cards per pack: 5
Cards in this box: 50
Base set completion: 
26 of 100 (26 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notable players found on base cards – Jameis Winston, Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, Amari Cooper, Odell Beckham Jr., Eli Manning, Calvin Johnson, Matthew Stafford

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Details are still to come for the Beckett Covers card set at this year's National Sports Collectors Convention that kicks off a week from today in Atlantic City, N.J., but BlowoutCards.com will have things covered in a deluxe way for those attempting to collect 'em all.

The card only available at the Blowout booth will be a limited edition double-sided card featuring two of the top rookies in two leagues -- the NFL's No. 2 draft pick and future Philadelphia Eagles QB Carson Wentz on the front and the NBA's No. 1 pick Ben Simmons of the Philadelphia 76ers on the back.

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He's been in the public eye as an NFL player and ESPN analyst every year since 1973, but Tom Jackson may finally have time to do something he's rarely done before.

Sign autographs for a card company and appear on some football cards.

The New York Daily News is reporting that Jackson may be leaving ESPN, where he's been part of NFL broadcasts since 1987. It's been a successful run, and, in 2015, he received the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award which honors “longtime exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football.”

Jackson's NFL career ended the season before his ESPN arrival and it's a career that's rarely seen on cardboard despite an explosion in card products in all those years since.

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Hillary Clinton's selection for her vice-presidential running mate appears on a handful of trading cards, but you'll have to go find some old packs of football cards to find his first one.

Virginia Senator and former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine first appeared on cardboard back in 2009 when Topps released an Allen & Ginter-styled football set called Topps Mayo.

There, in the 2009 Topps Mayo United States Governors insert set you'll find him nestled between James H. Douglas and Christine Gregoire in the 50-card set. These cards were among a few mini insert sets with cards found six times per hobby box.

That makes this a bit of a tough pull, but it's not his only cardboard.

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More than 450 lots of memorabilia from the collection of a former Alabama Crimson Tide and Oakland Raiders great are headed into collectors' hands soon as they are now on the auction block.

Trophies, game-used memorabilia and more from the collection of Ken Stabler, who will be posthumously inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Aug. 6, are up for grabs after his family decided to part with them. "Snake" died in July 2015 after a brief battle with colon cancer.

"In honoring Ken Stabler’s requests, his family has chosen to make items from his personal career collection available to the fans of Mr. Stabler’s career through Pristine Auction," read a release from the Phoenix-based company. "It is truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity ... to obtain a piece of sports memorabilia owned by legendary Oakland Raiders quarterback and 2016 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Ken Stabler."

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Call it a modern throwback -- modern in that it's printed on non-traditional acetate and a throwback in that it's not all about hits.

(But those hits can be pretty sweet.)

It's 2016 Panini Clear Vision football, and it's a set that packs just one hit per box and just four autographs in every 18-box case.

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What: 2016 Panini Infinity football cards
Arrives: Sept. 21
Box basics: Three autographs or memorabilia cards per box (15 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: This new line from Panini America offers a mix of new looks and "a star-studded autograph checklist that showcases rookies, veterans and retired players" with a suggested retail price of only $100 per box.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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