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What's Buzzing: A new NFL season is here, favorite Tom Brady cards, new breaks and more.

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What: 2021 Panini Chronicles UFC trading cards
Arrives: Oct. 6
Box basics: Two autos per six-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: UFC gets the Chronicles treatment with several brands all found in one spot -- more than 20 in this debut edition.

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What's Buzzing: Derek Jeter heads to Cooperstown today, Project70, 2021 Donruss NFL, new pulls and even a question about grading comic books.

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Fast Five is a quick list that might offer a basic starting point for a themed collection or new focus -- five things that could be fun for a beginner or a new way to add something to your stash if you're a grizzled veteran.

This time? Five NFL players Buzz will be watching this season.

THE GUY WHO FINISHED STRONG
Jonathan Taylor -- RB, Indianapolis Colts ... Rookie Cards in 2020 NFL releases
I'm big on the stat sheet -- what a player does on the field vs. what people think he might do -- and this guy leads off here because his final results as a rookie last year are impressive. If you look at last year's NFL rushing leaders, the king is Derrick Henry who put up the fifth-best season in NFL history with 2,027 yards (his RCs are in 2016 sets) then Dalvin Cook with 1,557 and then this rookie who had 1,169. That's a big drop to No. 3 for sure, but consider that only six other players even made to to 1,000 yards -- and one of them was a quarterback. There are QB questions for his team which might hamper his sophomore season but this time last year he wasn't really a scorcher, either. He finished strong. He had 101 yards in his second game but only had two other 100-yard games -- a 150-yarder and a crazy 253-yarder to end the season. That was tied for the ninth-best single game in NFL history. Imagine the possibilities if he's more consistent and is a go-to guy who can deliver. He had an impressive 11 TDs last year -- seven in his last four games -- so that and the yardage, to me, shows there's really good potential here. If you latch onto nicer cheaper options out there he's a safe buy to me ... though I actually collect other RBs who I didn't put on the list.

Keep reading for four more making up the list this time.

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What's Buzzing: New NFL, MLB and NXT breaks lead the way here with Shohei Ohtani and some other basics.

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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 a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: A big night for wrestling, football chatter, a good NFL question, big breaks and weird hairstyles on baseball cards.

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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 a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: New pulls, Trevor Lawrence, Project70, future card shows and more in today's edition.

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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 a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: Huge pulls, NFL chatter, the best 1990s MLB inserts and ... mapping all the hobby shops in America?

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What's Buzzing: New pulls, soccer Rookie Cards, NBA production volume, the future of Topps Heritage and "are you nervously holding your Trouts?"

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What's Buzzing: Big pulls, big slab stacks, Hall of Fame voters and more in today's edition.

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Christian Pulisic won't be changing cardboard teams any time soon.

Panini America revealed on Wednesday that it has extended its exclusive long-term deal with the soccer star for autographs and memorabilia for another five years. He's been with the company since 2016.

“We’re proud to have Christian as an exclusive member of the Panini family – it’s a special relationship that has really blossomed during the first five years,” said Panini America CEO Mark Warsop in a prepared release. “Christian has been a driving force behind our entire soccer portfolio – both domestically and internationally. This extension will see so many things taken to the next level and we can’t wait.”

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What's Buzzing: NFL chatter, MLB licensing, pondering a 1/1 value, a colorful NXT case and more in today's edition.

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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 this month's grading diary here on The Buzz ...

A COLLEGE CLASSIC
The Card: The Four Horsemen 1955 Topps All-American #68 SP -- Rookie Card
The Reason Bought: College football is back for another season, so I'll lead things off with a vintage classic. This card featuring Notre Dame quarterback Harry Stuhldreher, halfbacks Jim Crowley and Don Miller as well as fullback Elmer Layden is one that's been on my want list -- albeit very casually -- for a long time. I recently found one at a price that wasn't uncomfortable so here we are. I don't need a high-grade copy of this one -- just one that looks pretty good so I can say I have it. Besides their place in college football history, The Four Horsemen have a place in sportswriting history, too, as Grantland Rice gave them this name early on in what was a perfect 1924 season that ended with a national title. His New York Herald Tribune story started like this: "Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds this afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down upon the bewildering panorama spread out upon the green plain below." It's one of those pieces that's often cited when talking college football or sportswriting history and it's often emulated and it later sparked a marketing scenario -- the players would go on to pose on horses in uniform. In a lot of ways, that marketing is still replicated every Heisman season and beyond. This set is a landmark release, especially for college collectors, and this is one of a few big cards.
The Grade: BVG 2.5

Reality Check: Mine checks in low, but it's not the lowest -- there are 18 copies worse than mine and 14 others with this grade. It's very interesting to compare that total and then consider how few cards there are above a seven here.

Keep reading for more of this month's pick-ups and new slabs for Buzz.

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What's Buzzing: Patriots cut Cam Newton, MLB licensing chatter won't stop, new breaks, duplicated 1/1s and more.

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What's Buzzing: Nothing but NFL and MLB stuff in this one.

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What's Buzzing: Licensing chatter, AEW debut cardboard, new pulls, a Superfractor sighting and more.

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What's Buzzing: MLB licensing, showing off Steph Curry cards, pondering AEW set signers, new pulls and more.

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What: 2021 Panini Flawless College Football cards
Arrives: Oct. 20
Box basics: Six autographs and two memorabilia cards per 10-card box (two boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Flawless' college football edition drops for a new season with the latest draft picks all in one high-end spot.

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What's Buzzing: Mac Jones, Bo Bichette, ranking past NFL releases and new breaks in this edition.

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What's Buzzing: NFL licensing news and reactions, an NFL trade, a big NFL pull and more breaks in this Wednesday edition.

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Update: More details have been added since the initial Aug. 19 news.

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Will it be the end of an era?

The Wall Street Journal, Sportico and Action Network are reporting that Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association are going to sign new exclusive licensing agreements to make their baseball cards via Fanatics -- the multi-faceted business giant that, well, has never made baseball cards before.

Topps and Panini America are the present card-makers with Topps holding rights to both licenses and Panini holding just an MLB Players deal. According to the reports, the Topps deal runs until 2026 with the union deal until 2023. Topps has made MLB cards continuously since 1951.

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What: 2021 Panini Spectra baseball cards
Arrives: Oct. 1
Box basics:  Four autographs and four memorabilia cards per four-pack box (eight boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Spectra takes to the diamond for the first time with two hits in every pack

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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: 2021 Donruss Elite NFL cards
First Buzz preview: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a few formats)

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What's Buzzing: NBA collectors react to licensing chatter, big pulls from a damaged box and more in today's edition.

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Buzz buys and busts a lot of boxes right here for Buzz Breaks, but one of my goals is to rip a little less and talk more about cardboard that I -- and you -- might like. One way to do that? Simple show and tell -- present a few pick-ups and say why they captured my attention.

So, with that said, here are a few Buzz Buys ... 

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A STEAL ON JOE WILLIE
The Card: Joe Namath 2015 Panini National Treasures Century Materials Holo Silver (/15)
The Price: $20
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This one is a steal for the volume made and considering that, unlike a number of Namath's recent memorabilia cards, it's got a game-used piece inside of it and not a player-worn swatch. I easily would have paid more for a card like this for this brand (one I've historically liked) with a prime piece and so few made. In fact, I'm sure I have paid more for cards with more copies made compared to this. Would I go this high for a player-worn card? Perhaps but it wouldn't have been as easy of a no-brainer to grab.
Grab a box right here: National Treasures football boxes (all years)

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