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@Bweaver_87 @Belorris Another bad take by a disillusioned MAGA bootlicking troll

@Belorris Although it’s trying to mock MAGA, it’s actually a caricature of what the left think MAGA is, therefore MAGA don’t find it offensive, they find it funny because they’re not actually like that, it’s just further evidence to bolster the lunacy of the left 🤷‍♂️

if you’re MAGA and enjoy watching “the boys,” do yall think homelander is the hero? or do you just convince yourself that the show isn’t about you?

@WaxMetrix This is another ‘nope’ from me

2025 Topps Chrome Sapphire NFL Analysis & Deep Dive We all saw what happened with 2025/26 Topps Chrome NBA. A product that initially had people clutching pearls over $1000 direct pricing somehow turned into one of the most absurd value explosions the hobby has ever seen. Boxes were basically unobtainium at launch, and within 48 hours the market had them pushing $4k like it was perfectly reasonable behavior for a 32-card box. Now Topps Chrome NFL enters the chat. And not just Chrome…Sapphire. That alone is enough to make breakers start levitating. But unlike NBA, this release carries one massive difference: we're dealing with last year's rookie class. That takes a little octane out of the tank compared to the full-blown Flagg-level hysteria NBA was operating on. So the question becomes: Does NFL Sapphire have enough juice to send the hobby into another feeding frenzy? Or has Topps convinced us we're buying Chrome NBA 2.0 when the math (and checklist) say otherwise? The Squatch is no Swami. But thankfully, he does speak fluent spreadsheet. Welcome to 2025 Topps Chrome Sapphire NFL. If you need more of this kind of product analysis in your life, please consider following me on Substack, where I have over 100 new product breakdowns in my catalog, in an easily navigable format. @SlabSquatch" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@SlabSquatch Part 1: The Basics- Seriously? This behemoth drops via EQL on Friday, May 22 at 12pm ET. Typical Sapphire box dynamics of 8 packs of 4 cards. Inexplicably, Topps raised the drop price to $1500 this round. Like WHAT?!?! $500 more than NBA Sapphire...with its loaded rookie class and absolutely nuclear auto checklist? I suppose I get it. That was waaaaaay too much profit for the middleman. The 5 breakers that procured pallets of NBA Sapphire printed money...to the millions. Off one product. I mean, Topps loves their breakers. But I fully understand why they feel the need to capture a little more of that action. Here's the problem. Dart, Ward, Skattebo & Sanders, having already showed a full season of their true colors, are not walking into the hobby with the same "anything is possible" energy as Flagg, Knueppel, and Edgecombe in the dawn of a new season. This feels like buying a new Maserati...but two years later after it's already been driven 5k miles and depreciated by 50%. But they're still charging full-blown sticker price. And it's important to remember, Sapphire football already existed in 2024. At $500/box. So now we're supposed to believe the license alone is worth an extra G per box? Um. Okay. If you insist. In the immortal words of 4 Inches Live on Instagram: "Probably not, Dog!" Part 2: Production Numbers Total cards in product: 324,000 Total boxes produced: 10,125 (1,013 cases) This is standard Sapphire production- no surprises here. Part 3: Heat Map Autos/box- 1.2 Parallels/box- 4.25 Numbered cards/box- 4 Inserts/box- 0.31 (1 insert per 3.25 boxes) Though subtle, there are actually some pretty serious differences here than your typical Sapphire release. 1) There are clearly significantly more autos in the product than boxes produced. This should mean that, though Topps will advertise 1 auto/box, some boxes will produce an extra auto, possibly up to 20% of boxes. Furthermore, there are Sapphire insert autos possible. This isn't a first, but the reason this is unique is that all the insert autos aside from Sapphire Selections Autos- 1990 Topps, Chromographs, Future Stars, Chrome Legends, Hall of Chrome, & Dual Autos- are only available in Red Sapphire & Padparadscha...no base or higher numbered parallels. Although extremely tough to pull, there is serious value in some of these Insert Auto checklists. 2) Parallels/box is more than typical Sapphire, but still below NBA Sapphire, which produced 4.5/box once we realized the odds on Purples were incorrect and they were actually numbered /75. 3) Same story with numbered cards- 4 is nice in comparison to a typical Saphire release which has 3, but this is still below NBA Sapphire which produced 4.6. 4) Only offering Sapphire Selections & Infinite, all Inserts are rare. They will combine to fall 1 per 3.25 boxes (or ~3 per case). Though this will blow away a typical Sapphire release, NBA Sapphire somehow managed to stuff nearly 1 of these rare inserts per box. Now, the print run was higher on those (Sapphire Selections at ~380 ea in NBA vs ~45 ea in NFL). But honestly, I don't think that difference will hurt the value of the NBA version much. 5) Probably the most noticeable difference, which is sure to have an effect on value of sealed product, is Auto parallels. In NBA Chrome, there were no autos worse than Gold /50 in the entire product. I'm sure that felt awesome if ripping a box was in your price range. For NFL Sapphire, there is the addition of Green Autos /99. This doesn't seem like a huge difference, but Green or better just doesn't feel as good as Gold or better. And it will be noticed. Value Map (based on pre-order pricing of $1500/box) $/card- $46.88 $/parallel- $354.98 $/auto- $1,269.92 $/# card- $375.00 Part 4: What Would the Squatch Do This requires some deliberation. NFL Sapphire is a step down in dynamics from NBA Sapphire. And a huge step backward when factoring in checklist, rookie class, and timeliness of the product. There's a real chance $1500/box may seem cheap in a few weeks. Boxes could easily be going for $2.5-$3k. They could also be going for $1.8-$2k ea, in which case you just wasted money and time trying to flip a $1500 product after fees. I don't think these are a no-brainer flip. There is serious risk here that could be better spent on trying to get drop pricing on a cheaper product with guaranteed upside. If you know a breaker, it may be a bit safer. I'm sure most of them would take all they can get. Why did I jump straight into the flip side of things? Because, let's be honest...not many of us are jumping in the EQL, feverishly trying to score a couple boxes so we can rip them ourselves. If you are, you've earned that. You don't need my analysis. At, $1k/box, the Squatch would probably have entered the EQL. At $1.5k, a "win" seems more like unnecessary stress than something to be excited about. OK, let's be brutally honest. None of us will win the EQL anyway. So it may be one to enter just to boost that phantom score that may not really be a thing. We all know who will get all the product. And it's not us hairy Neanderthal mouth breathers. I feel like the breaking community will keep the value on these boxes propped up at a price where they probably shouldn't be. But it will be fun to watch. Good luck if you enter. This is Big Boy territory. Squatch out. Part 5: The Print Runs Base production (300 card CL): ~890 ea Parallels: Rookie Sapphire Base (100 card CL)- ~405 ea Sapphire Image Variation (30 card CL)- ~75 ea Rookie Sapphire Image Variation (20 card CL)- ~75 ea Inserts: Infinite (25 card CL)- ~40 ea Sapphire Selections (25 card CL)- ~45 ea Autos: Sapphire Selections Autos (25 card CL)- ~17 ea #thehobby #SlabSquatchAnalytics #2025ToppsChromeSapphireNFL

@ricanking6 Nope

EQL: 2025-26 Topps Chrome Cactus Jack Basketball 🏀🌵 Hobby Box: thetoppscompany.sjv.io/rEDEDj Sealed Case: thetoppscompany.sjv.io/jRyRyM

@ohnohedidnt24 CB is smoking crack with this take…

Chris Broussard: "Here's the problem for SGA...his game is all substance...no style. Magic the greatest flashiest passer ever, Steph the crazy 3PT shots crazy handle, Isiah miraculous handle great finishes at the rim in traffic, with the shooting Jordan just of course Air Jordan. Kobe similar to Jordan. SGA has none of that. It's basic midrange stuff"

@SLVRsport This market is about to crash. Sales of Chrome are softening fast. Gonna be lots of bag holders. Fanatics gonna be smiling all the way to the bank robbing the addicts blind

The football card market just seems so out of whack right now!! Cosmic Chrome will probably touch $1k on the secondary market. Sad thing is I feel like the market is doing this to itself (Topps didn’t help by tightening the funnel of supply), If Topps sells it at $400, it gets botted and the flippers make a mint. So many flippers/breakers/shops that no longer have allotment, have to buy no matter what the release price is because It’s the only way they keep their business alive. These are the people buying in bulk. That in turn keeps the demand high at release and the cycle continues. Also, Topps rationing release waves and giving half of everything to breakers compounds the hurt. Disclaimer; I know nothing, I am just a guy who likes to open a lot of football cards and who is unhappy with the cost of a mid tier hobby box. @CardPurchaser

@Topps Not one fucking thing I can reasonably afford or even want at this point……

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@AnnieForTruth This person gets it.

Biden governed for everyone, Trump governs only for himself and his loyalist boot lickers. 😡

@YourAnonNews There are 70+ million absolute morons in this country who would happily vote against their own self interest, similar to the most recent presidential election.

Why would anyone be against this at all? Are you against this??

@Topps Ohtani and Tom Brady

Name two athletes who should sign a dual autograph card together…

@BBGreatMoments That looks like AI 👀

Greg Maddux two-seamer vs Moises Alou might be the craziest pitch I’ve seen 😮

@TheOnlyEsta @CBS @paramountplus Fuck CBS and any and all Trump asslickers

F*€K @CBS and @paramountplus‼️ Will dropping Stephen Colbert affect your CBS viewing? YES or NO

@SportsCardInv @bradtatzzzz Insane pull. Congrats!!

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Opened 1 Hoops Jumbo today @CardPurchaser. The autos were buns. The Coop made the box.

@travelingflying What a stupid fucking post.

Piers Morgan: ”Everyone in England used to have guns, now very few people have. And the consequence of that, we have almost 0 gun crimes.” Tucker Carlson: ”Oh, is London safe now!? 🤣” Piers Morgan: ”Now we have a knife crime epidemic.” Tucker Carlson: ”No, you have a people problem. It’s measurable. How many people got stabbed or shot in London in the ’70s? It’s a massive increase. The attitudes and actions of the people are totally different; you’ve got different people.” Yes. Here are figures for London, UK: 1960 98% White 0.01 Knife crime per 1,000 2025 36% White 1.82 Knife crime per 1,000

@SKYBCards Send da video

This is $1,000 worth of NBA hoops 😅 I just know I’m about to get absolutely cooked on this rip lmao. Wish me luck, I need it!!🤞🍀

@OffDaHook35 Hell no

Anyone buying 2026 Topps Chrome VeeFriends?

@WNYCards How much were the Jumbos? They sold out by the time I got there - @CardPurchaser @WaxMetrix

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@Topps 100% out on Finest football at 700/box. What a fiasco

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4 more (and the last) megas - shoulda cancelled the order…..@CardPurchaser here are the hits